The Keep of Fire
10 best books like The Keep of Fire (Mark Anthony): The Yard, Losing Earth: A Recent History, American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves, The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help, The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic, The Gods of Gotham, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
| Author | Alex Grecian |
| ISBN | 0399149546 |
Victorian London is a cesspool of crime, and Scotland Yard has only twelve detectives—known as “The Murder Squad”—to investigate countless murders every month. Created after the Metropolitan Police’s spectacular failure to capture Jack the Ripper, The Murder Squad suffers rampant...
Losing Earth: A Recent History
| Author | Nathaniel Rich |
| ISBN | 0374191336 |
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change--including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before...
| Author | Craig Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0061719544 |
Reprinted from my website Secure Immaturity:
I’m trying to love Craig Ferguson while I can because let’s face it world. . .Craig Ferguson is coming! I’m not one of those intellectual yuppies who hates anything mainstream but there is, admittedly, something really fun about liking...
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
| Author | Chuck Klosterman |
| ISBN | 0743236017 |
Countless writers and artists have spoken for a generation, but no one has done it quite like Chuck Klosterman. With an exhaustive knowledge of popular culture and an almost effortless ability to spin brilliant prose out of unlikely subject matter, Klosterman attacks the entire spectrum of postmodern...
| Author | Megan Whalen Turner |
| ISBN | 0061870935 |
Sophos, under the guidance of yet another tutor, practices his swordplay and strategizes escape scenarios should his father's villa come under attack. How would he save his mother? His sisters? Himself? Could he reach the horses in time? Where would he go? But nothing prepares him for the day armed...
| Author | Megan Whalen Turner |
| ISBN | 0062568248 |
Deep within the palace of the Mede emperor, in an alcove off the main room of his master’s apartments,. Kamet minds his master’s business and his own. Carefully keeping the accounts, and his own counsel, Kamet has accumulated a few possessions, a little money stored in the household’s cashbox,...
The Art of Asking; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let People Help
| Author | Amanda Palmer |
| ISBN | 1455581089 |
Rock star, crowdfunding pioneer, and TED speaker Amanda Palmer knows all about asking. Performing as a living statue in a wedding dress, she wordlessly asked thousands of passersby for their dollars. When she became a singer, songwriter, and musician, she was not afraid to ask her audience to support...
The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic
| Author | Jessica Hopper |
| ISBN | 0983186332 |
Jessica Hopper's music criticism has earned her a reputation as a firebrand, a keen observer and fearless critic not just of music but the culture around it. With this volume spanning from her punk fanzine roots to her landmark piece on R. Kelly's past, The First Collection leaves no doubt why The New...
| Author | Lyndsay Faye |
| ISBN | 0399158375 |
1845. New York City forms its first police force. The great potato famine hits Ireland. These two seemingly disparate events will change New York City. Forever.
Timothy Wilde tends bar near the Exchange, fantasizing about the day he has enough money to win the girl of his dreams. But when his...
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
| Author | Carrie Brownstein |
| ISBN | 1594486638 |
From a leader of feminist punk music at the dawn of the riot-grrrl era, a candid and deeply personal look at life in rock and roll.
Before Carrie Brownstein codeveloped and starred in the wildly popular TV comedy Portlandia, she was already an icon to young women for her role as a musician in the...
Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums
| Author | Travis Barker |
| ISBN | 0062319426 |
Travis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’s art and his life, including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery—a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention...
Shook One: Anxiety Playing Tricks on Me
| Author | Charlamagne Tha God |
| ISBN | 1508258651 |
8 Hours
Charlamagne Tha God, New York Times bestselling author of Black Privilege and cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club, reveals his blueprint for breaking free from your fears and anxiety to reach that elusive next level of success.
Fear is holding you back. It’s time...
| Author | Lyndsay Faye |
| ISBN | 0399158383 |
Six months after the formation of the NYPD, its most reluctant and talented officer, Timothy Wilde, thinks himself well versed in his city’s dark practices — until he learns of the gruesome underworld of lies and corruption ruled by the "blackbirders," who snatch free Northerners of color from...
| Author | Lyndsay Faye |
| ISBN | 0399169482 |
The final installment in Lyndsay Faye’s Timothy Wilde series, which Lee Child called “solid-gold” and Gillian Flynn declared “spectacular.”
No one in 1840s New York likes fires, copper star Timothy Wilde least of all. After a blaze killed his parents and another left him with...
In this atmospheric tale from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries, a widow is reunited with her girlhood love in a house haunted by all-too-human ghosts.
They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Grey hasn’t laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty years, not since she gave him...
| Author | Mark Greaney |
| ISBN | 0515148458 |
Killing is Court Gentry's business. Now, his business is about to get personal in the second Gray Man novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Greaney.
Four years ago, Court Gentry was betrayed by his handlers in the CIA. To survive, he had to eliminate his own brothers in arms. Now, as a master...
| Author | Eric Victorino |
| ISBN | 0977634000 |
"Stunning... Important, so inspiring... Please read this book" -Sonny Moore, Recording Artist "There are very few ways to get inside the mind of a lyricist. One way is through reading their diaries, the other through sleeping with them. Eric's book is the more entertaining of the options. It's a raw...
The Redemption of the Scared Duchess
Juliana is growing up in a family where scandal and rumors precede her wherever she goes. Like this wasn't enough, she's also the least favorite daughter among her older evil sisters, and in desperate need of a miracle.
When an unexpected array of events leads to her unforeseen engagement to...
