The Fever
10 best books like The Fever (Wallace Shawn): The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Year of the Monkey, "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide, Country Girl, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir, The Suicide Shop, Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer, Notes from a Young Black Chef, I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir
Author | Samantha Power |
ISBN | 0062820710 |
Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, widely known as a relentless advocate for promoting human rights, has been heralded by President Barack Obama as one of America's "foremost thinkers on foreign policy."
In her memoir, Power offers an urgent response to the question "What can one person...
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Author | Karen Russell |
ISBN | 0307957233 |
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A.V. Club
A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013
From the author of the novel Swamplandia!—a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and...
Author | Patti Smith |
ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide
Author | Samantha Power |
ISBN | 0060541644 |
Former UN Ambassador Samantha Power's Pulitzer Prize-winning analysis of America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world
In her Pulitzer Prize-winning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders...
When Edna O'Brien's first novel, The Country Girls, was published in 1960, it so scandalized the O'Briens' local parish that the book was burned by its priest. O'Brien was undeterred and has since created a body of work that bears comparison with the best writing of the twentieth century. Country Girl...
No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir
Author | Ani DiFranco |
ISBN | 0735225176 |
A memoir by the celebrated singer-songwriter and social activist Ani DiFranco
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling,...
Author | Jean Teulé |
ISBN | 1906040095 |
Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success With the twenty-first century just a distant memory and the world in environmental chaos, many people have lost the will to live. And business is brisk at The Suicide Shop. Run by the Tuvache family for generations, the shop offers an amazing...
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
ISBN | 1478961260 |
Bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are killing ourselves to live longer, not better.
A razor-sharp polemic which offers an entirely new understanding of our bodies, ourselves, and our place in the universe, Natural Causes describes how we over-prepare...
Notes from a Young Black Chef
Author | Kwame Onwuachi |
ISBN | 1524732621 |
A groundbreaking memoir about the intersection of race, fame, and food, from the Top Chef star and Forbes and Zagat 30 Under 30 honoree
By the time he was twenty-seven, Kwame Onwuachi had competed on Top Chef, cooked at the White House, and opened and closed one of the most talked about restaurants...
I'm Supposed to Protect You from All This
Author | Nadja Spiegelman |
ISBN | 1594631921 |
A memoir of mothers and daughters—and mothers as daughters—traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again.
For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most...
Chasing The Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World
Author | Samantha Power |
ISBN | 0713998415 |
"Hey Girl. What you readin? Why you cryin?" says the man sitting on the hood of his car to me.
"Just a book about the UN," I say as I walk briskly home.
When this book started, I could not control my eye-rolls. I have read a few books about aggrandized heroes who often forget that their being male...
The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace
Author | Robert Kirkman |
ISBN | 1534312412 |
It’s… over?
Wha… no foolin’!? Sweet zombie jesus!
Yup, the series that became like the rotting, shambling corpses featured in its pages has finally come to a long overdue end. I kinda feel like Kent Brockman – why now, why not five years ago??
So after years of saying...
Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption. the Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump
Author | Vicky Ward |
ISBN | 1250185947 |
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The first explosive book about Javanka and their infamous rise to power
Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are the self-styled Prince and Princess of America. Their swift, gilded rise to extraordinary power in Donald Trump's White House is unprecedented...