The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx

6 best books like The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx (Lawrence Durrell): Foucault's Pendulum, At Home: A Short History of Private Life, The Passengers, Stations of the Tide, Jack Faust, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy

Foucault's Pendulum

Author

Umberto Eco

Foucault's Pendulum is divided into ten segments represented by the ten Sefiroth. The novel is full of esoteric references to the Kabbalah. The title of the book refers to an actual pendulum designed by the French physicist Léon Foucault to demonstrate the rotation of the earth, which has symbolic...

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

Author	Bill Bryson
ISBN	0767919386

“Houses aren’t refuges from history. They are where history ends up.”

Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew...

The Passengers

Author	John Marrs
ISBN	1473558522

Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide.

When someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course.

The passengers are: a TV star, a pregnant young woman, a disabled war hero, an abused...

Stations of the Tide

Author	Michael Swanwick
ISBN	0380817616

This was some kind of amazing. The main character, who was never referred to as anything but Bureaucrat, was hardly my definition of a bureaucrat. He was part outcast, part superspy, part magician's apprentice, and part avenger. He wears so many hats during this superb little gem that I never slow down...

Jack Faust

Author	Michael Swanwick
ISBN	0380974444

The acclaimed novels of award-winning author Michael Swanwick have been praised for their "heady mix of wild ideas and images" (San Francisco Chronicle) and "extraordinary richness and scope" (Kirkus Reviews). But nothing that has come before can quite compare to this, Swanwick's finest creation...

The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy

Author	Elizabeth Aston
ISBN	0743261933

The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy takes readers back into the imagined family of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy. Their musical daughter Alethea makes a disastrous marriage to a man whose charming manners conceal an unpleasant nature. Flinging caution to the winds, she flees her...