The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches

6 best books like The Kingdoms and the Elves of the Reaches (Robert Stanek): Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, The Canterbury Tales, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides, Welcome to the Monkey House, The Overlook

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

Author

Susanna Clarke

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...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Author	Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN	0141441259

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity,...

The Canterbury Tales

Author	Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN	0140424385

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions...

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Author	Aeschylus
ISBN	0140443339

Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, here

In the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos.

Moving from darkness to light, from...

Welcome to the Monkey House

Author	Kurt Vonnegut
ISBN	0385333501

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut is a collection of short stories from the 50s and 60s and demonstrates Vonnegut’s tremendous range as a writer.

I have read one critic who did not like Vonnegut, saying that all of his novels are essentially the same, with his voice and tone narrating...

The Overlook

Author	Michael Connelly
ISBN	0316018953

In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk...