The Explanation for Everything
9 best books like The Explanation for Everything (Lauren Grodstein): Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog, Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth, Courting Mr. Lincoln, Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine, A Door in the Earth, Bluff, The Amber Room, Kaddish.com
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
Hiroshima-born Sadako is lively and athletic--the star of her school's running team. And then the dizzy spells start. Soon gravely ill with leukemia, the "atom bomb disease," Sadako faces her future with spirit and bravery. Recalling a Japanese legend, Sadako sets to work folding paper cranes. For...
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
| Author | Dave Barry |
| ISBN | 1501161172 |
In this “little gem” (
Washington Independent Review of Books),
Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Barry learns how to age happily from his old but joyful dog, Lucy.
As Dave Barry turns seventy—not happily—he realizes that his dog,...
Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth
| Author | Chris Ware |
| ISBN | 0224063979 |
Jimmy Corrigan has rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won the Guardian First Book Award 2001, the first graphic novel to win a major British literary prize.
It is the tragic autobiography of an office dogsbody in Chicago who one day meets the father who...
| Author | Louis Bayard |
| ISBN | 1616208473 |
From the prizewinning author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye comes Courting Mr. Lincoln, the page-turning and surprising story of a young Abraham Lincoln and the two people who loved him best: a sparky, marriageable Mary Todd and Lincoln’s best friend, Joshua Speed.
When Mary Todd meets...
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine
| Author | Emily Bernard |
| ISBN | 0451493028 |
An extraordinary, exquisitely written memoir (of sorts) that looks at race--in a fearless, penetrating, honest, true way--in twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays that explore, up-close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities of growing...
| Author | Amy Waldman |
| ISBN | 0316451576 |
For readers of Cutting for Stone and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Submission about the journey of a young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated...
| Author | Jane Stanton Hitchcock |
"Driven by the heart-pounding suspense of a high-stakes poker game, Bluff is a vivid, compelling novel about deceit, seduction, and delicious revenge that will keep you spellbound and cheering as you turn the last page." -Susan Cheever, New York Times bestselling author
One-time socialite...
The Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man: an entire room forged of exquisite amber, from its four massive walls to its finely crafted furniture. But it is also the subject of one of history's most intriguing mysteries. Originally commissioned in 1701 by Frederick I of Prussia,...
| Author | Nathan Englander |
| ISBN | 1524732753 |
The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father
Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies,...
