The Enormous Room

9 best books like The Enormous Room (E.E. Cummings): How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean, ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life, The Man With the Golden Arm, The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child, Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar, Your Happily Ever After, The Self-Love Experiment: Fifteen Principles for Becoming More Kind, Compassionate, and Accepting of Yourself, Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe

Author	Charles Yu
ISBN	0307379205

A story of a son searching for his father . . . through quantum space–time.
 
Minor Universe 31 is a vast story-space on the outskirts of fiction, where paradox fluctuates like the stock market, lonely sexbots beckon failed protagonists, and time travel is serious business. Every day, people...

The Life and Death of Harriett Frean

Author	May Sinclair
ISBN	0860681068

Harriett is the Victorian embodiment of all the virtues then viewed as essential to the womanly ideal: a woman reared to love, honour and obey. Idolising her parents, she learns from childhood to equate love with self-sacrifice, so that when she falls in love with the fiance of her closest friend, there...

ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life

Author	Judith Kolberg
ISBN	1583913580

This remains a slow read, though it isn't the book's fault. The shock of recognition that comes every few pages elicits an emotional response from me, and then I need to put the book down for a few days and read something else.

Update: I seem to have lost the book. And honestly? I think that it's the...

The Man With the Golden Arm

Author	Nelson Algren
ISBN	1583220089

Nelson Algren's devastating of that savage, subterranean world go gamblers, junkies, alcoholics, prostitutes, thieves, and degenerates remains unsurpassed as an authentic portrait of human depravity.

Only a master like Algren could create such a passionate and dramatic novel of so...

The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child

Author	Nancy Verrier
ISBN	0963648004

"The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child", by Nancy Verrier, is a challenging and courageous work. A book which adoptees call their "bible," it is a must read for anyone connected with adoption: adoptees, birth parents, adoptive parents, therapists, educators, and attorneys. In its application...

Trout Fishing in America / The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster / In Watermelon Sugar

Author	Richard Brautigan
ISBN	0395500761

An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s.
Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways; In Watermelon Sugar expresses the...

Your Happily Ever After

Author	Dieter F. Uchtdorf
ISBN	1606416529

This book was adapted from Elder Uchtdorf's article, "Your Happily Ever After" from the May 2010 Ensign.

I'm not quite sure how I feel about Deseret Book Company making his talk into a book with just a few pictures and selling it for $14.99? You can get access the same talk online for FREE.

It...

The Self-Love Experiment: Fifteen Principles for Becoming More Kind, Compassionate, and Accepting of Yourself

Author	Shannon Kaiser
ISBN	0143130692

Put a stop to self-sabotage and overcome your fears so that you can gain the confidence you need to reach your goals and become your own best friend.

Too many people seem to believe that they are not allowed to put themselves first or go after their own dreams out of fear of being selfish or sacrificing...

Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss

Author	Hope Edelman
ISBN	0738210269

An instant bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, Hope Edelman's Motherless Daughters explores the myriad ways that losing a mother can affect almost every aspect and passage of a woman's life. First published a decade ago, it is still the book that motherless daughters of all ages look to for...