The Great Frustration

10 best books like The Great Frustration (Seth Fried): Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder, Planetfall, The Strange Bird: A Borne Story, Exhalation: Stories, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process, Null Set, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, Fresh Complaint, Killing and Dying: Stories

Bowerman and the Men of Oregon: The Story of Oregon's Legendary Coach and Nike's Co-founder

Author	Kenny Moore
ISBN	1594861900

The first biography of the legendary track coach, and founder of Nike, who had an unparalleled impact on the sport of running

During his tenure as track coach at the University of Oregon from 1949 through 1972, Bill Bowerman won 4 national team titles, trained dozens of milers to break the 4-minute...

Planetfall

Author

Emma Newman

From the award-nominated author Emma Newman, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place...

The Strange Bird: A Borne Story

Author

Jeff VanderMeer

The Strange Bird—from New York Times bestselling novelist Jeff VanderMeer—is a digital original that expands and weaves deeply into the world of his “thorough marvel”* of a novel, Borne. The Strange Bird is a new kind of creature, built in a laboratory—she is part bird, part human, part...

Exhalation: Stories

Author

Ted Chiang

An alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already...

Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves

Author	Frans de Waal
ISBN	0393635066

New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.

Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...

Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process

Author	Irene M. Pepperberg
ISBN	0061672475

Alex & Me is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas. A New York...

Null Set

Author

S.L. Huang

Math-genius mercenary Cas Russell has decided to Fight Crime(tm). After all, with her extraordinary mathematical ability, she can neuter bombs or out-shoot an army. And the recent outbreak of violence in the world’s cities is Cas’s own fault—she’s the one who crushed the organization of...

Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Author	Thor Hanson
ISBN	0465052614

From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships...

Fresh Complaint

Author	Jeffrey Eugenides
ISBN	0374203067

The first collection of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides’s bestselling novels have shown him to be an astute observer of the crises of adolescence, self-discovery, family love, and what it means to be American in our times. The...

Killing and Dying: Stories

Author	Adrian Tomine
ISBN	1770462090

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." —Wired

Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this work, Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes...