The Engagement
10 best books like The Engagement (Georges Simenon): Middle England, Sisters By a River, Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices, Fatale, The Day We Found the Universe, Siegfried, The Legion of Space, Three to Kill, The Freemasons: A History of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society, Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
| Author | Jonathan Coe |
| ISBN | 0241309468 |
Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disruption in Britain. There are the early married years of Sophie and Ian who disagree about the future of Britain and, possibly, the future of their...
On the banks of the River Avon, six sisters are born. The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree, and always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir. Then, unexpectedly, an air of decay descends upon the house: ivy grows unchecked over the windows, angry shouts...
| Author | Noah Feldman |
| ISBN | 0446580570 |
A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international...
| Author | Jean-Patrick Manchette |
| ISBN | 1590173813 |
An NYRB Classics Original
Whether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set her eyes on a backwater burg—where, while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous)...
The Day We Found the Universe
| Author | Marcia Bartusiak |
| ISBN | 0375424296 |
On January 1, 1925, thirty-five-year-old Edwin Hubble announced the observation that ultimately established that our universe was a thousand trillion times larger than previously believed, filled with myriad galaxies like our own. This discovery dramatically reshaped how humans understood...
| Author | Harry Mulisch |
| ISBN | 0141009144 |
Celebrated author Rudolf Herter is in Vienna to read from his masterpiece, The Invention of Love, when in a TV interview he speaks of his desire to write about evil. He is later contacted by an elderly couple who believe he should hear their shocking story. As servants at the Berghof, Hitler's retreat...
| Author | Jack Williamson |
| ISBN | 0722191715 |
Space Legionnaires
They were the greatest trio of swashbuckling adventurers ever to shop out to the stars! There was giant Hal Samdu, rocklike Jay Kalam and the incomparable shrewd and knavish Giles Habibula.
Here is there first thrilling adventure - the peril-packed attempt to rescue...
| Author | Jean-Patrick Manchette |
| ISBN | 0872863956 |
Businessman Georges Gerfaut witnesses a murder—and is pursued by the killers. His conventional life knocked off the rails, Gerfaut turns the tables and sets out to track down his pursuers. Along the way, he learns a thing or two about himself. . . . Manchette—masterful stylist, ironist, and social...
| Author | Jasper Ridley |
| ISBN | 1559706546 |
For many centuries, since their founding as a guild comprising the master builders of the great castles and cathedrals of the Middle Ages, the freemasons have enjoyed a dual reputation: powerful-often munificent-rulers, politicians, and artists whose works have enhanced our world; and members...
Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member
| Author | Sanyika Shakur |
| ISBN | 0802141447 |
"After pumping eight blasts from a sawed-off shotgun at a group of rival gang members, twelve-year-old Kody Scott was initiated into the L.A. gang the Crips. He quickly matured into one of the most formidable Crip combat soldiers, earning the name “Monster” for committing acts of brutality and...
| Author | Tony Rafael |
| ISBN | 1594031959 |
The Mexican Mafia is a pioneering work that unveils the operations of this California prison gang and describes how it grew from a small clique into a transnational criminal organization. The Mexican Mafia controls every Hispanic neighborhood in Southern California and is rapidly expanding its...
| Author | Richard Price |
| ISBN | 0747562733 |
Novelist and Academy Award–nominated screenwriter Richard Price's bestselling second novel offers "an unforgettable picture of inner-city decay and despair" (USA Today)
At once an intense mystery and a revealing study of two men, a veteran homicide detective and an innercity crack dealer,...
| Author | Jeremy Blachman |
| ISBN | 0805079815 |
A wickedly funny debut novel about a high-powered lawyer whose shockingly candid blog about life inside his firm threatens to destroy him
He's a hiring partner at one of the world's largest law firms. Brilliant yet ruthless, he has little patience for associates who leave the office before...
My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman's Story
| Author | Latifa |
| ISBN | 1401359256 |
I loved this book. I find it disgusting that people want more from this girl. I’m sorry but did you miss the people being raped and killed? Have people become so selfish that they can only see but their own suffering. Anyone that says this book is a bore is a pathetic excuse for a human being. Latifa didn’t...
