Ten Stories about Smoking

7 best books like Ten Stories about Smoking (Stuart Evers): The Secret River, Frankissstein: A Love Story, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't, Dreams of My Russian Summers, Selected Poems and Three Plays, The Walrus and the Carpenter, First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

The Secret River

Author	Kate Grenville
ISBN	1841959146

In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale...

Frankissstein: A Love Story

Author	Jeanette Winterson
ISBN	1473563259

From 'one of the most gifted writers working today' (New York Times) comes an audacious new novel about the bodies we live in and the bodies we desire

In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love – against their better judgement – with Victor Stein, a celebrated...

The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail - But Some Don't

Author

Nate Silver

One of Wall Street Journal's Best Ten Works of Nonfiction in 2012

New York Times Bestseller

"Not so different in spirit from the way public intellectuals like John Kenneth Galbraith once shaped discussions of economic policy and public figures like Walter Cronkite helped sway opinion...

Dreams of My Russian Summers

Author	Andreï Makine
ISBN	0684852683

Dreams of My Russian Summers, tells the poignant story of a boy growing up amid the harsh realities of Soviet life in the 1960s and '70s, and of his extraordinary love for an elegant Frenchwoman, Charlotte Lemonnier, who is his grandmother.

Every summer he visits his grandmother in a dusty village...

Selected Poems and Three Plays

Author	W.B. Yeats
ISBN	0020715609

My favorite poems are as follows:

The Lake of Innisfree
When you are Old
The Second Coming
On Woman
The People

However, my favorite lines came for "The Death of Cuchulain" (1939)

When they told me that I could have my own way I wrote certain guiding principles...and...

The Walrus and the Carpenter

Author	Lewis Carroll
ISBN	1563977192

For the Celebrity Death Match Review Tournament, The Annotated Alice (6) versus 1984 (22)

- Thank you for responding so quickly, Mr... Walrus, was it?

- Call me Wally. And this is Carpy.

- Pleased to meet you... Wally. Now...

- Say, where's the O'Brien geezer? The...

First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

Author	Bee Wilson
ISBN	0465064981

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ourselves. From childhood onward, we learn how big a “portion” is and how sweet is too sweet. We learn to enjoy green vegetables—or not. But how does this education happen? What are the origins of taste?

In...