The Big Book of the Unexplained
10 best books like The Big Book of the Unexplained (Doug Moench): The Wall, No-No Boy, Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom, Janesville: An American Story, Ron Jeremy: The Hardest (Working) Man in Showbiz, Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers, You Don't Say, Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business, Black River, Bad Gateway
| Author | John Lanchester |
| ISBN | 1324001631 |
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019
Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...
| Author | John Okada |
| ISBN | 0295955252 |
John Okada was born in Seattle, Washington in 1923. He attended the University of Washington and Columbia University. He served in the US Army in World War II, wrote one novel and died of a heart attack at the age of 47. John Okada died in obscurity believing that Asian America had rejected his work.
In...
Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom
| Author | Shelby Lorman |
| ISBN | 0143134310 |
A wickedly funny illustrated look at living and dating in a patriarchal culture that celebrates men for displaying the bare minimum of human decency.
Surely you're familiar with "good boys." They're the ones who put "feminist" in their Tinder bio but talk over you the entire date. They ghost...
Janesville: An American Story
| Author | Amy Goldstein |
| ISBN | 1501102230 |
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business...
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Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers
| Author | Ed Sikov |
| ISBN | 0786885815 |
Now in paperback: "An authoritative biography and a compulsive page-turner." (Michael Palin, New York Times Book Review) Peter Sellers' explosive talent made him a beloved figure in world cinema and continues to attract new audiences. With his darkly comic performances in Dr. Strangelove and Lolita...
| Author | Nate Powell |
| ISBN | 1603093664 |
A celebrity glares. A community burns. A child's heart breaks. A recipe summons a ghost. A dying woman makes her peace. An art form sustains the spirit. In You Don't Say award-winning graphic novelist Nate Powell -- of the #1 New York Times Bestseller March: Book One, and the Eisner Award-Winning "Graphic...
Hotbox: Inside Catering, the Food World's Riskiest Business
| Author | Matt Lee |
| ISBN | 1627792619 |
Matt Lee and Ted Lee take on the competitive, wild world of high-end catering, exposing the secrets of a food business few home cooks or restaurant chefs ever experience.
Hotbox reveals the real-life drama behind cavernous event spaces and soaring white tents, where cooking conditions have...
| Author | Josh Simmons |
| ISBN | 1606998331 |
Josh Simmons returns with his first full-length graphic novel since 2007's acclaimed House. A group of women, one man, and two dogs are making their way through a post-apocalyptic world in search of a city that supposedly still has electricity and some sort of civilization. Along the way, they go to...
| Author | Simon Hanselmann |
| ISBN | 1683962079 |
So, if you have read all or even some of Simon Hanselmann’s Megg and Mogg stories, almost nothing in Bad Gateway will be surprising. What began as a stoner comic remains a stoner comic, with a gradual veering over time toward tragedy. Things catch up with you if you live this life for a number of years....
