The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011
9 best books like The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2011 (Dave Eggers): Bark, George, The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, Holidays on Ice, Five Little Pumpkins, Camino Real, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011, The Best American Science Writing 2012, The Areas of My Expertise, The Best American Comics 2018
| 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...
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...
| 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...
| Author | Mary Roach |
| ISBN | 0547350635 |
The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...
| Author | Michio Kaku |
| ISBN | 0062117912 |
The Best American Science Writing 2012 is yet another endlessly fascinating and mind-expanding installment of the popular science series that Kirkus Reviews calls, “Superb brain candy.” Edited by renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku, co-founder of string field...
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,...
The Best American Comics 2018
| Author | Phoebe Gloeckner |
| ISBN | 1328464601 |
“I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language,” writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018. This year’s collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic...
