The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia
10 best books like The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia (David King): A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants, Serotonin, Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, The Flamethrowers, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer, Levels of Life, 10:04, The Emperor of Water Clocks
A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 0679731377 |
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters presents a surprising, subversive, fictional history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Noah disembarks from his ark but he and his Voyage are not forgotten: they...
Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants
| Author | Robert Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1582344779 |
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"Engaging...a lively, informative compendium of facts, theories, and musings."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
Behold the rat,...
Michel Houellebecq’s Serotonin is a caustic, frightening, hilarious, raunchy, offensive, and politically incorrect novel about the decline of Europe, Western civilization, and humanity in general. Enter to win a hardcover copy!
Deeply depressed by his romantic and professional...
| Author | Sunil Yapa |
| ISBN | 0316386537 |
The Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World Spin in this debut novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle's 1999 WTO protests.
On a rainy, cold day in November, young Victor--a boyish, scrappy world traveler who's run away from home--sets out to sell marijuana to the 50,000 anti-globalization...
| Author | Rachel Kushner |
| ISBN | 1439142009 |
The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world—artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging...
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free
| Author | Héctor Tobar |
| ISBN | 0374280606 |
When the San Jos mine collapsed outside of Copiap, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. Across the globe, we sat riveted to television and computer screens as journalists flocked to the Atacama desert. While...
Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer
| Author | Lynne Cox |
| ISBN | 0156031302 |
Now in paperback, with photos and maps added especially for this new edition, here is the acclaimed life story of a woman whose drive and determination inspire everyone she touches.
Lynne Cox started swimming almost as soon as she could walk. By age sixteen, she had broken all records for swimming...
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 0385350775 |
Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart.
"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed..."
One of the judges who awarded...
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 0865478104 |
In the last year, the narrator of 10:04 has enjoyed unlikely literary success, has been diagnosed with a potentially fatal medical condition, and has been asked by his best friend to help her conceive a child. In a New York of increasingly frequent superstorms and social unrest, he must reckon with his...
| Author | Yusef Komunyakaa |
| ISBN | 0374147833 |
The wildly enchanting new collection from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa
"If I am not Ulysses, I am / his dear, ruthless half-brother." So announces Yusef Komunyakaa early in his lush new collection, The Emperor of Water Clocks. But Ulysses (or his half brother) is but one...
| Author | Isabelle Eberhardt |
| ISBN | 0720611911 |
In the Shadow of Islam is an extraordinary evocation of the desert and its people by a woman who dressed as a man in order to travel alone and unimpeded throughout North Africa. In 1897 Isabelle Eberhardt, age 20, left an already unconventional life in Geneva for the Morroccan frontier. Gripped by spiritual...
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness
| Author | Neil Swidey |
| ISBN | 0307886727 |
The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless tunnel hundreds of feet under Massachusetts Bay to do a nearly impossible job-with deadly results
In the 1990s, Boston built a sophisticated waste treatment plant on Deer Island that was poised to show the country how to deal...
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 0375725881 |
Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Julian Barnes continues to reinvigorate the novel with his pyrotechnic verbal skill and playful manipulation of plot and character. In Love, etc. he uses all the surprising, sophisticated ingredients of a delightful farce to create a tragicomedy of human...
