Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade

10 best books like Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade (Linda Perlstein): Twilight, Coal: A Human History, Haunted, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes, Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books, Summer Frost, Meet Me at the Museum, Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

Twilight

Author	Meg Cabot
ISBN	0060724692

This time it's life or death.

Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But when she discovers that she has the power to determine...

Coal: A Human History

Author	Barbara Freese
ISBN	0142000981

In this remarkable book, Barbara Freese takes us on a rich historical journey that begins hundreds of millions of years ago and spans the globe. Prized as “the best stone in Britain” by Roman invaders who carved jewelry out of it, coal has transformed societies, expanded frontiers, and sparked...

Haunted

Author	Meg Cabot
ISBN	0060751649

Is it possible to be haunted by someone who isn't even dead?

Suze is used to trouble, but this time she's in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh-and-blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good.

Paul...

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes

Author	Adam Rutherford
ISBN	0297609378

This is a story about you.

It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to you, as it is to each of the 100 billion modern humans who have ever drawn breath. But it is also our collective story, because in every one of our genomes we each carry the history of our species - births,...

Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

Author

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles.

From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a...

All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

Author	Erin Lee Carr
ISBN	0399179712

An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New York Times journalist David Carr, in this fierce memoir of love, addiction, and family.

Dad: What will set you apart is not talent, but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness...

The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

Author	Edward Wilson-Lee
ISBN	0008146225

Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fraction of one man’s life spent collecting every book on every subject – including antique and modern worlds, science and law, as well as playing cards, pornography, and popular music.

Who was...

Summer Frost

Author

Blake Crouch

A video game developer becomes obsessed with a willful character in her new project, in a mind-bending exploration of what it means to be human by the New York Times bestselling author of Recursion.

Maxine was made to do one thing: die. Except the minor non-player character in the world Riley...

Meet Me at the Museum

Author	Anne Youngson
ISBN	0857525522

Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ...

When the curator of a Danish museum responds to a query about ancient exhibits, he doesn’t expect a reply.

When Tina Hopgood first wrote it, nor did she …

Professor Anders Larsen, an urbane man of facts, has lost...

Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America

Author	Nathan McCall
ISBN	0679740708

Nathan McCall's Makes Me Wanna Holler tells the story of McCall's childhood in a predominantly black neighborhood, an area prone to gang-related activities. The book is set in the late-1900s during McCall's teenage years, when he and his friends were transitioning from naive youth to gangsters....