The Best American Short Stories 2014

9 best books like The Best American Short Stories 2014 (Jennifer Egan): American Tabloid, How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems, Islands in the Stream, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012, Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness, For Esmé—with Love and Squalor, Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

American Tabloid

Author

James Ellroy

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassination—in the underworld that connects Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, D.C....

Where the CIA, the Mob, J. Edgar Hoover, Howard Hughes, Jimmy Hoffa, Cuban political exiles, and various loose...

How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems

Author	Randall Munroe
ISBN	1473680336

How To is an instruction manual for taking everyday problems and using science and creative thinking to turn them into much bigger and more exciting problems. It teaches you how to cross a river by boiling it, outlines some of the many uses for lava around the home, and walks you through how to use experimental...

Islands in the Stream

Author	Ernest Hemingway
ISBN	0743253426

First published in 1970, nine years after Ernest Hemingway's death, Islands in the Stream is the story of an artist and adventurer — a man much like Hemingway himself. Rich with the uncanny sense of life and action characteristic of his writing — from his earliest stories (In Our Time) to his last...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013

Author	Siddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN	0544003438

The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2013.

This collection of twenty-seven articles was edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a scientist and author of the runaway bestseller “The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. He did a great job of choosing which ones to include here.

There...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014

Author

Deborah Blum

“Undeniably exquisite . . . The essays in the collection [are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity.” — Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

“A stimulating compendium.” — Kirkus Reviews

Pulitzer...

The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2012

Author	Dan Ariely
ISBN	0547799535

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...

Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness

Author	Donald L. Barlett
ISBN	0393326020

Howard Hughes lived life large. He simply did not exist in the same universe with the rest of the world. His cousin told me about a time that Howard had his car stolen. It was a brand new convertible. Howard told his cousin that he was not upset about losing the car, but about losing the Saturday Evening Post...

For Esmé—with Love and Squalor

Author

J.D. Salinger

"For Esmé — with Love and Squalor" is a short story by J. D. Salinger. Originally published in The New Yorker on April 8, 1950, it was anthologized in Salinger's Nine Stories two years later (while the story collection's American title is Nine Stories, it is titled as For Esmé — with Love & Squalor...

Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down

Author	J.E. Gordon
ISBN	0306812835

In a book that Business Insider noted as one of the "14 Books that inspired Elon Musk," J.E. Gordon strips engineering of its confusing technical terms, communicating its founding principles in accessible, witty prose.

For anyone who has ever wondered why suspension bridges don't collapse...