The Jesus Man

8 best books like The Jesus Man (Christos Tsiolkas): Hannibal Rising, The House of Impossible Beauties, Dancer from the Dance, A Brief History of Seven Killings, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Lola Quartet, Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling, The Lost Girls

Hannibal Rising
AuthorThomas Harris
ISBN0385339410
HE IS ONE OF THE MOST HAUNTING CHARACTERS
IN ALL OF LITERATURE.

AT LAST THE EVOLUTION OF HIS EVIL
IS REVEALED.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.

He seems utterly alone, but he has brought...
The House of Impossible Beauties
AuthorJoseph Cassara
ISBN0062677004
It’s 1980 in New York City, and nowhere is the city’s glamour and energy better reflected than in the burgeoning Harlem ball scene, where seventeen-year-old Angel first comes into her own. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside...
AuthorAndrew Holleran
ISBN0060937068
One of the most important works of gay literature, this haunting, brilliant novel is a seriocomic remembrance of things past -- and still poignantly present. It depicts the adventures of Malone, a beautiful young man searching for love amid New York's emerging gay scene. From Manhattan's Everard...
A Brief History of Seven Killings
AuthorMarlon James
WINNER OF THE 2015 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION From the acclaimed author of The Book of Night Women comes a masterfully written novel that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.

On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before...
The Bonfire of the Vanities
AuthorTom Wolfe
ISBN0553381342
Sherman McCoy, the central figure of Tom Wolfe's first novel, is a young investment banker with a fourteen-room apartment in Manhattan. When he is involved in a freak accident in the Bronx, prosecutors, politicians, the press, the police, the clergy, and assorted hustlers high and low close in on him,...
The Lola Quartet
AuthorEmily St. John Mandel
ISBN1609530799
Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he’s disgraced following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. It’s early 2009, and the world has gone dark very quickly. The economic collapse has turned an era that magazine headlines once heralded as the second gilded...
Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling
AuthorEmer McLysaght
Aisling is thirty, flirty and frazzled.

But - just when she should finally be feeling all grown-up - she's floundering.

Because when you're recovering from a broken heart as well as struggling to keep your café as sizzling as your award-winning sausages, it's hard to feel you've...
The Lost Girls
AuthorJennifer Spence
ISBN1925791386
A haunting tale of love and loss that will make you think twice …

What would you do if you had the chance to change a pivotal moment from your past?
 
How far would you go to save someone you loved?
   
These are just two of the fateful choices a woman must face in this highly original...
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