The Descent of Anansi
10 best books like The Descent of Anansi (Larry Niven): Cat's Eye, Isaac Newton, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Friday, Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1, Deadline, Red Planet (Heinlein's Juveniles, #3), Batman: White Knight, Archy and Mehitabel, I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
| Author | Margaret Atwood |
| ISBN | 0385491026 |
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship,...
| Author | James Gleick |
| ISBN | 1400032954 |
Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence...
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 0446579807 |
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case
against religion.
With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0345414004 |
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as "Boss." Operating from and over a near-future Earth, in which North America has become Balkanized into dozens of independent states, where culture has become bizarrely vulgarized and chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on...
Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 1302900536 |
A new era begins for the Black Panther! MacArthur Genius and National Book Award-winning writer T-Nehisi Coates (BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME) takes the helm, confronting T'Challa with a dramatic upheaval in Wakanda that will make leading the African nation tougher than ever before. When a superhuman...
Shaun Mason is a man without a mission. Not even running the news organization he built with his sister has the same urgency as it used to. Playing with dead things just doesn't seem as fun when you've lost as much as he has.
But when a CDC researcher fakes her own death and appears on his doorstep...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0345493184 |
This was, hands down, my favorite Heinlein book as a teen. I read it at least 4 or 5 times. I really need to read it again as an adult, but Heinlein ... always an iffy proposition. Though this is one of his early juvie novels, so it's safer than, say, Time Enough for Love.
Two teenage boys, sent away...
He’s been called a maniac, a killer and the “Clown Prince of Crime” but “white knight”? Never. Until now…
Set in a world where the Joker is cured of his insanity and homicidal tendencies, The Joker, now known as “Jack,” sets about trying to right his wrongs. First, he plans to...
| Author | Don Marquis |
| ISBN | 0385094787 |
When newspapers were the dominant medium, were fun, and didn't take themselves so goddam seriously, there were great columnists.
Don Marquis was one. archy was his alter ego, a cockroach with the soul of a poet who threw himself on the typewriter keys to express his thoughts. Hence no caps--you...
| Author | Steve Earle |
| ISBN | 0618820965 |
Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams—not just in the figurative sense, not just because he was one of the last people to see him alive, and not just because he is rumored to have given Hank the final morphine dose that killed him.
In 1963, ten years after Hank's death, Doc himself...
Ta deuxième vie commence quand tu comprends que tu n'en as qu'une
- Vous souffrez probablement d'une forme de routinite aiguë.
- Une quoi ?
- Une routinite aiguë. C'est une affection de l'âme qui touche de plus en plus de gens dans le monde, surtout en Occident. Les symptômes sont presque toujours les mêmes : baisse de motivation, morosité chronique,...
Seven to Eternity, Vol. 2: Ballad of Betrayal
| Author | Rick Remender |
| ISBN | 1534303219 |
Adam Osidis and the Mosak travel the blasted lands of Zhal to deliver the Mud King to the only force strong enough to undo his strangle hold on his army of mind slaves. But the Mud King isn't called "the God of Whispers" for nothing, and his poison runs deep, so deep even as to affect the Mosak. The choices they...
