The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta

10 best books like The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta (Giovanni Boccaccio): Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster, The Yellow Wall-Paper, Housekeeping, Measure for Measure, Snow, Glass, Apples, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers, Bluets, Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman, Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000, Awe

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

Author	Adam Higginbotham
ISBN	1501134612

The definitive, dramatic untold story of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, based on original reporting and new archival research.

April 25, 1986, in Chernobyl, was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the...

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Author	Charlotte Perkins Gilman
ISBN	1558611584

‘It is stripped off - the paper - in great patches . . . The colour is repellent . . . In the places where it isn’t faded and where the sun is just so - I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to skulk about . . .’

Based on the author’s own experiences, 'The Yellow Wallpaper'...

Housekeeping

Author	Marilynne Robinson
ISBN	0312424094

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far...

Measure for Measure

Author	William Shakespeare
ISBN	0743484908

Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare’s plays. In it, a duke temporarily removes himself from governing his city-state, deputizing a member of his administration, Angelo, to enforce the laws more rigorously. Angelo chooses as his first victim Claudio, condemning...

Snow, Glass, Apples

Author

Neil Gaiman

*3.5 stars*



Oh my! Snow, Glass, Apples is some twisted, dark and creepy fairytale retelling of Snow White, lovely and dear Snow White. In this short story written by the critically acclaimed author Neil Gaiman, she is pure and innocent no more. Better watch out: the mask she wears might...

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Author	Will Durant
ISBN	0671739166

A brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—The Story of Philosophy is one of the great books of our time. Few write...

Bluets

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1933517409

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...

Kissinger's Shadow: The Long Reach of America's Most Controversial Statesman

Author	Greg Grandin
ISBN	1627794492

A new account of America’s most controversial diplomat that moves beyond praise or condemnation to reveal Kissinger as the architect of America’s current imperial stance

In his fascinating new book, acclaimed historian Greg Grandin argues that to understand the crisis of contemporary...

Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems, 1988-2000

Author	Lucille Clifton
ISBN	1880238888

Lucille Clifton: Ave Atque Vale

Lucille Clifton is gone but her legacy of simple, honestly felt, seemingly spontaneously written poems about the live of ordinary people who become icons almost by accident will live on, especially through the collection of her works in this award winning...

Awe

Author	Dorothea Lasky
ISBN	1933517247

If the book of Revelations had been scribbled in the diary of a precocious fourteen-year-old girl, the prophecies might look something like Awe. Dorothea Lasky is a daring truth-teller, naming names and boldly pushing the boundaries of confession. The secrets she tells are truths we recognize in...

The Book of Frank

Author	C.A. Conrad
ISBN	1933517492

Winner of the 2009 Gil Ott Book Award, this expanded edition of The Book of Frank features additional "Frank" poems and an essay by Eileen Myles.Praised by poet Anne Waldman as a "voyeuresque surreal portrait," The Book of Frank is also, in the words of “candid portrayal of human cruelty and its resultant...