Something Special: A Story

10 best books like Something Special: A Story (Iris Murdoch): No Judgments, Our Lady of Darkness, Murder in the Museum, Aug 9 - Fog, Coffin Hill Vol. 1: Forest of the Night, The Bachelor's Cat, The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral, How the World Was: A California Childhood, Brain Wave, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

No Judgments

Author	Meg Cabot
ISBN	0062890034

The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida—and it’s sending waves crashing through Sabrina “Bree” Beckham’s love life…

When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island—as well as its connection to the mainland—twenty-five-year-old...

Our Lady of Darkness

Author	Fritz Leiber
ISBN	0441644171

Middle-aged San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen is rediscovering ordinary life following a long alcoholic binge. Then one day, peering at his apartment window from atop a nearby hill, he sees a pale brown thing lean out his window…and wave.

This encounter sends Westen on a quest through...

Murder in the Museum

Author	John Rowland
ISBN	1464205795

When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are...

Aug 9 - Fog

Author	Kathryn Scanlan
ISBN	0374106878

A Paris Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019

A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasons

Fifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger's five-year diary...

Coffin Hill Vol. 1: Forest of the Night

Author

Caitlin Kittredge

Following a night of sex, drugs and witchcraft in the woods, Eve Coffin wakes up naked, covered in blood and unable to remember how she got there. One friend is missing, one is in a mental ward-and one knows that Eve is responsible.

Years later, Eve returns to Coffin Hill, only to discover the darkness...

The Bachelor's Cat

Author	Lynn Hoffman
ISBN	0060191058

A feel-good love story for the holidays, The Bachelor's Cat is an instant classic for the ages about how a lost feline helps a sensitive but misdirected man find love with the right woman.He discovered her outside his door, no bigger than his palm, ears pressed flat and shivering against the cold. He took...

The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

Author	Robert Westall
ISBN	0374471193

4.5 stars!

Originally published back in 1991, the title novella is one creepy story about a steeplejack working on the towers and steeple of Muncaster Cathedral. This edition also contains the story "Brangwyn Gardens", which is entirely new to American audiences.

Joe Clarke wondered...

How the World Was: A California Childhood

Author	Emmanuel Guibert
ISBN	1596436646

In 1994, French cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert befriended an American veteran named Alan Cope and began creating his new friend's graphic biography. Alan's War was the surprising and moving result: the story of Cope's experiences as an American GI in France during World War II.

How the World...

Brain Wave

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0345325214

Prolific Grand Master Poul Anderson earned his place of honor within the hallowed halls of science fiction’s best and brightest. His work may not be as engagingly readable as Asimov, or as accessibly impactful as Clarke. He was never as politically-minded as Heinlein and his prose is not as slick...

Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke

Author	Rainer Maria Rilke
ISBN	0060907274

This selection includes the original poems in German with their translations and commentary.

Contents:
I live my life --
I have many brothers --
We don't dare --
I love the dark hours --
You darkness, that I come from --
I have faith --
I am too alone --
You see,...

De Zevensprong

Author	Tonke Dragt
ISBN	9025844391

Frans van de Steg, teacher, devoted time at the end of each school day to telling tall tales. A born storyteller, he entranced his students with yarns about his adventures, shipwrecks and desert island escapades as hero, Frans the Red. One day, he told his class that he was expecting a letter and headed...