Tales of Henry James

10 best books like Tales of Henry James (Henry James): The Foundation Trilogy, Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital, Galápagos, Deadeye Dick, Fight or Flight, Red Harvest, Bluebeard, Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate, One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy, Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

The Foundation Trilogy

Author	Isaac Asimov
ISBN	0380508567

A THOUSAND-YEAR EPIC, A GALACTIC STRUGGLE, A MONUMENTAL WORK IN THE ANNALS OF SCIENCE FICTION

FOUNDATION begins a new chapter in the story of man's future. As the Old Empire crumbles into barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy, Hari Seldon and his band of psychologists must...

Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

Author	Eric Manheimer
ISBN	1455503886

The inspiration for the NBC drama New Amsterdam and in the spirit of Oliver Sacks, this intensely involving memoir from a former medical director of a major NYC hospital looks poignantly at patients' lives and reveals the author's own battle with cancer.

Dr. Manheimer describes the plights...

Galápagos

Author	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	0385333870

Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human...

Deadeye Dick

Author	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	0385334176

Deadeye Dick is Kurt Vonnegut’s funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a true Vonnegutian host of horrors—a double murder, a fatal dose of radioactivity, a decapitation, an annihilation of a city by a neutron bomb—Rudy Waltz, aka Deadeye Dick, takes us along on a zany...

Fight or Flight

Author	Samantha Young
ISBN	0349419310

A series of chance encounters leads to a sizzling new romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the On Dublin Street series.

The universe is conspiring against Ava Breevort. As if flying back to Phoenix to bury a childhood friend wasn't hell enough, a cloud of volcanic ash...

Red Harvest

Author	Dashiell Hammett
ISBN	0752852612

I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...

Bluebeard

Author

Kurt Vonnegut

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside his potato barn. But then a voluptuous young widow badgers Rabo into telling his life story—and Vonnegut...

Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate

Author	Naomi Klein
ISBN	0312307993

Naomi Klein's No Logo is an international bestselling phenomenon. Winner of Le Prix Mediations (France), and of the National Business Book Award (Canada) it has been translated into 21 languages and published in 25 countries.

Named one of Ms Magazine's Women of Year in 2001, and declared...

One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy

Author	Thomas Frank
ISBN	0385495048

In a book that has been raising hackles far and wide, the social critic Thomas Frank skewers one of the most sacred cows of the go-go '90s: the idea that the new free-market economy is good for everyone.

Frank's target is "market populism"--the widely held belief that markets are a more democratic...

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

Author	Jane Jacobs
ISBN	0679748164

In this slim and readable volume, Jacobs articulates the two moral systems humans have evolved over the centuries: that of traders (commerce), and that of guardians (government). Once stated, they seem so obvious, but failure to recognize the differences results in serious chaos. This book was a...