The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
10 best books like The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet (Kelly Link): Little, Big, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Zombie, When I Arrived at the Castle, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales, In the Forest of Forgetting, The Speed Queen
| Author | John Crowley |
| ISBN | 0061120057 |
John Crowley's masterful Little, Big is the epic story of Smoky Barnable, an anonymous young man who travels by foot from the City to a place called Edgewood—not found on any map—to marry Daily Alice Drinkwater, as was prophesied. It is the story of four generations of a singular family, living in...
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
| Author | David Mitchell |
| ISBN | 1400065453 |
In 2007, Time magazine named him one of the most influential novelists in the world. He has twice been short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. The New York Times Book Review called him simply “a genius.” Now David Mitchell lends fresh credence to The Guardian’s claim that “each of his books seems...
| Author | David Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0812974018 |
From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new.
Black Swan Green tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village in muddiest Worcestershire in a dying...
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307263983 |
In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning...
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
| Author | Karen Russell |
| ISBN | 0307957233 |
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A.V. Club
A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013
From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and...
| Author | Joyce Carol Oates |
| ISBN | 0452275008 |
I HATED this book! It was excellently written and it did what it was supposed to do...it scared the crap out of me. This is a character study of a social deviant. I don't want to spoil this for anyone who reads it, so I won't give away the ending, but definitely not something you read while lying on the beach...
When I Arrived at the Castle
"A castle, a killer, and prey all bound and blurred by lust and blood."
Like many before her that have never come back, she's made it to the Countess' castle determined to snuff out the horror, but she could never be prepared for what hides within its turrets; what unfurls under its fluttering...
My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales
The fairy tale lives again in this book of forty new stories by some of the biggest names in contemporary fiction.
Neil Gaiman, “Orange”
Aimee Bender, “The Color Master”
Joyce Carol Oates, “Blue-bearded Lover”
Michael Cunningham, “The...
| Author | Theodora Goss |
| ISBN | 1907881182 |
The reprint of In the Forest of Forgetting by award-winning author Theodora Goss, first published in 2006 by Prime Books, with an introduction by Terri Windling and cover art by Virginia Lee. The table of contents has been slightly modified: "Phalaenopsis" has been replaced by "Her Mother's Ghosts,"...
| Author | Stewart O'Nan |
| ISBN | 0802138535 |
Stewart O'Nan is one of the most highly acclaimed fiction writers of his generation, selected by Granta as one of the Best Young American Novelists and hailed by The New York Times as "a master." Grove Press is proud to reissue his haunting noir novel The Speed Queen. The Speed Queen is the gripping story...
| Author | Hannah Tinti |
| ISBN | 0385337450 |
Richly imagined, gothically spooky, and replete with the ingenious storytelling ability of a born novelist, The Good Thief introduces one of the most appealing young heroes in contemporary fiction and ratifies Hannah Tinti as one of our most exciting new talents.
Twelve year-old Ren is...
| Author | Chris Adrian |
| ISBN | 1932416609 |
A hospital is preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of water. Inside, assailed by mysterious forces, doctors and patients are left to remember the world they've lost and to imagine one to come. At the center, Jemma Claflin, a medical student, finds herself gifted with strange...
| Author | M. Rickert |
| ISBN | 1930846444 |
Set in a reality where nightmares do not fade upon waking, this anthology skims along the surface of life and dips just beneath, revealing the hidden machinations that fuel dreams. These underlying myths and fantasies exist not as musty old stories but as ancient truths that have come to illuminate...
| Author | Hannah Tinti |
| ISBN | 0385337442 |
With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses.
In these ten strange, funny, and unnerving stories, animals...
| Author | M. John Harrison |
| ISBN | 0553385011 |
Years after Ed Chianese’s fateful trip into the Kefahuchi Tract, the tract has begun to expand and change in ways we never could have predicted—and, even more terrifying, parts of it have actually begun to fall to Earth, transforming the landscapes they encounter.
Not far from Moneytown,...
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In
| Author | James C. Collins |
| ISBN | 0977326411 |
Decline can be avoided.
Decline can be detected.
Decline can be reversed.
Amidst the desolate landscape of fallen great companies, Jim Collins began to wonder: How do the mighty fall? Can decline be detected early and avoided? How far can a company fall before the path toward...
Boogiepop Omnibus Vol. 1-3
| Author | Kouhei Kadono |
| ISBN | 1626929173 |
An omnibus of Kouhei Kadono’s first three novels that started the hit franchise–a modern classic that sparked the light novel craze in Japan!
There is an urban legend about an Angel of Death that puts those in pain out of their misery. This “shinigami” has a name—Boogiepop. When...
Boogiepop Omnibus Vol. 4-6
| Author | Kouhei Kadono |
| ISBN | 1642750387 |
The next three novels of Kouhei Kadono’s modern classic that sparked the light novel craze in Japan–including two novels never-before-printed in English!
Six children with clairvoyant powers, a mysterious being called the King of Distortion, and a creature that feeds on human fear—these...
