The House of Discarded Dreams
10 best books like The House of Discarded Dreams (Ekaterina Sedia): Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, River of Smoke, Horns, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Blindsight, Ruined, The World of Edward Gorey, World and Town, 10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Librarian note: Alternate cover edition of 9780765356154.
Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic into a flawlessly detailed vision of historical England. She has created a world so thoroughly enchanting that eight hundred...
| Author | Amitav Ghosh |
| ISBN | 0719568986 |
In September 1838, a storm blows up on the Indian Ocean and the Ibis, a ship carrying a consignment of convicts and indentured laborers from Calcutta to Mauritius, is caught up in the whirlwind. River of Smoke follows its storm-tossed characters to the crowded harbors of China. There, despite efforts...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 0061147958 |
Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples.
At first Ig thought the horns were a hallucination, the product of a mind damaged by rage and grief. He had...
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
| Author | Gregory Maguire |
| ISBN | 0060987103 |
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?
Gregory Maguire creates...
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
| Author | G.K. Chesterton |
| ISBN | 0375757910 |
G. K. Chesterton's surreal masterpiece is a psychological thriller that centers on seven anarchists in turn-of-the-century London who call themselves by the names of the days of the week. Chesterton explores the meanings of their disguised identities in what is a fascinating mystery and, ultimately,...
| Author | Peter Watts |
| ISBN | 0765312182 |
It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want...
| Author | Amy Tintera |
| ISBN | 0062396609 |
A revenge that will consume her. A love that will ruin her.
Emelina Flores has nothing. Her home in Ruina has been ravaged by war. She lacks the powers of her fellow Ruined. Worst of all, she witnessed her parents’ brutal murders and watched helplessly as her sister, Olivia, was kidnapped.
But...
| Author | Clifford Ross |
| ISBN | 0810990830 |
Though I've been attracted to Gorey's art for some time now, I couldn't have told you before I read this book why I was. According to the interview here, Gorey adores Dickens (especially his lesser-read works) and, according to interpretation offered in the essay, in his art he both celebrates and parodies...
| Author | Gish Jen |
| ISBN | 0307272192 |
From the much-loved author of Who’s Irish? and The Love Wife, a world-sized novel set in a small New England town.
Hattie Kong—the spirited offspring of a descendant of Confucius and an American missionary to China—has, in her fiftieth year of living in the United States, lost both her...
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness
| Author | Alanna Collen |
| ISBN | 0062345982 |
Fino a non molto tempo fa eravamo convinti che il ruolo dei microbi fosse per lo più irrilevante, ma la scienza sta svelando un'altra verità: forse sono i microbi a gestire il nostro corpo e la salute senza di loro sarebbe impossibile. La biologa Alanna Collen ha scritto un libro affascinante e stupefacente...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 0765380900 |
A science fiction masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner!
In the distant future, Surplus arrives in China dressed as a Mongolian shaman, leading a yak which carries the corpse of his friend, Darger. The old high-tech world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences that...
Innocent Until Interrogated: The True Story of the Buddhist Temple Massacre and the Tucson Four
| Author | Gary L. Stuart |
| ISBN | 0816529248 |
On a sweltering August morning, a woman walked into a Buddhist temple near Phoenix and discovered the most horrific crime in Arizona history. Nine Buddhist temple members—six of them monks committed to lives of non-violence—lay dead in a pool of blood, shot execution style. The massive manhunt...
A Congregation of Jackals
| Author | S. Craig Zahler |
| ISBN | 0843964154 |
One of Oswell's old bank-robbing gang is getting married out in Montana Territory, and the rest of the boys are all invited. But someone else will be there too. Quinlan. He was part of the gang once, but betrayal turned an ally into a bitter enemy, one who will stop at nothing to get his revenge. He and his...
| Author | Susan Dunlap |
| ISBN | 0786718501 |
After a terrifying stunt gone wrong leaves her plummeting into the tops of forest trees, a shaken Darcy Lott is dispatched by her Zen master to a remote monastery in California's redwood forest to face her worst fear — but also to deliver a message. This monastery has its own secrets. A student has disappeared...
| Author | Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
| ISBN | 8420471011 |
«Durante casi dos años serví con el capitán Alatriste en las galeras de Nápoles. Por eso hablaré ahora de escaramuzas, corsarios, abordajes, matanzas y saqueos. Así conocerán vuestras mercedes el modo en que el nombre de mi patria era respetado, temido y odiado también en los mares de Levante....
The Body Builders: Inside the Science of the Engineered Human
| Author | Adam Piore |
| ISBN | 0062347144 |
By uniting machine and human, hacking our genetic codes, and understanding the body’s molecular structure through engineering principles, cutting-edge scientists are pushing us beyond our natural limitations. And it’s not really about gold-medal Olympics performances. From regrowing...
| Author | Michael Cunningham |
| ISBN | 0374299080 |
Peter and Rebecca Harris: mid-forties denizens of Manhattan’s SoHo, nearing the apogee of committed careers in the arts—he a dealer, she an editor. With a spacious loft, a college-age daughter in Boston, and lively friends, they are admirable, enviable contemporary urbanites with every reason,...
When the body of a fast-living young stockbroker is found in a shallow grave, suspicion first falls on a cuckolded policeman. Lt. Joe Gunther investigates the increasingly bizarre details of the crime, but finds that he’s too far behind events to prevent a second murder. Indeed, whoever is responsible...
