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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012

10 best books like The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (Dave Eggers): Ivanhoe, The Best American Essays 2012, The Best American Essays 2011, Bulldog Drummond, Return of the Thin Man, The Talisman, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015, The Best American Short Stories 2012, The Best American Essays 2014

Ivanhoe
AuthorWalter Scott
ISBN0140436588
For this novel, Scott moved far away from the setting of his own turbulent time. He went back to the late 12th century, and to England rather than the Scottish settings of all his previous novels. He connected his writing Ivanhoe with his concerns about contemporary events.
Scott drew together the...
The Best American Essays 2012
AuthorRobert Atwan
ISBN0547840098
The Best American Series®
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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...
The Best American Essays 2011
AuthorEdwidge Danticat
ISBN0547479778
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...
Bulldog Drummond
AuthorSapper
ISBN1842325434
‘Demobilised officer, finding peace incredibly tedious, would welcome diversion. Legitimate, if possible; but crime, if of a comparatively humorous description, no objection. Excitement essential... Reply at once Box X10.’ Hungry for adventure following the First World War, Captain Hugh...
Return of the Thin Man
AuthorDashiell Hammett
Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last--and most successful--novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length...
The Talisman
AuthorWalter Scott
ISBN1592247709
The Talisman is Sir Walter Scott's tale of the Crusades -- a tale of chivalry, of violence, of virtue, romance, and deceit. In Scott's own words: ...the warlike character of Richard I, wild and generous, a pattern of chivalry, with all its extravagant virtues, and its no less absurd errors, was opposed...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012
AuthorDan Ariely
ISBN0547799535
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...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
AuthorRebecca Skloot
The Best American Series
 
The next edition in a series praised as “undeniably exquisite” (Maria Popova), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining...
The Best American Short Stories 2012
AuthorTom Perrotta
ISBN0547242107
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...
The Best American Essays 2014
AuthorJohn Jeremiah Sullivan
ISBN0544309901
“A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating.” — Publishers Weekly

The Best American Essays 2014 is selected and introduced by...
The Best American Mystery Stories 2012
AuthorRobert Crais
ISBN0547553986
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...
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