The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010
9 best books like The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2010 (Dave Eggers): Naked, Bark, George, Tenth of December, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Holidays on Ice, Five Little Pumpkins, Camino Real, The Areas of My Expertise
| Author | David Sedaris |
| ISBN | 0316777730 |
Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview—a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable....
| Author | Jules Feiffer |
| ISBN | 0062051857 |
I occasionally find myself reading children's books to large gatherings of toddlers, moms and nannies. Life is odd, no? Madly trying to find something I had not read a hundred times before, I tried out this one and it was a smash hit. It is fairly short, so if you are doing a story time you might want to save...
| Author | George Saunders |
| ISBN | 0812993802 |
One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.
In the taut opening, "Victory Lap," a boy witnesses the attempted abduction...
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
| Author | Nikki Sixx |
| ISBN | 1847371663 |
A dark year in the life of Nikki Sixx
Although a member of other bands Nikki Sixx is best known as co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter for the band Mötley Crüe.
A few years ago I was on a memoir kick and I ended up reading a few written by some current and former rock stars. I was...
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0446698229 |
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely...
| Author | David Sedaris |
| ISBN | 0316191299 |
David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never before published story. Along with such favorites as the diaries of a Macy's elf and the annals of two very competitive families, are Sedaris's tales of tardy trick-or-treaters (Us and Them); the difficulties...
| Author | Dan Yaccarino |
| ISBN | 0694011770 |
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate.The first one said, "Oh my, it's getting late."Get ready for some wicked fun as these five pumpkins run and roll! Toddlers will want to chant along with this popular rhyme again and again. Dan Yaccarino's vibrant and bold illustrations bring these pumpkins to life...
| Author | Tennessee Williams |
| ISBN | 0811202186 |
In this phantasmagorical play, the Camino Real is a dead end, a police state in a vaguely Latin American country, and an inescapable condition. Characters from history and literature—Don Quixote, Casanova, Camille, Lord Byron—inhabit a place where corruption and indifference have immobilized...
The Areas of My Expertise
| Author | John Hodgman |
| ISBN | 1594482225 |
Hot on the heels of the #1 bestsellers The Onion's Our Dumb Century and Jon Stewart's America comes The Areas of My Expertise, the brilliant and uproarious #15 bestseller (i.e., a runaway phenomenon in its own right-no, seriously) - a lavish compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia,...
