The Line

7 best books like The Line (Olga Grushin): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Signs Preceding the End of the World, My Life as a Rat, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home, The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America, Wonder Boys, Cristallisation Secrète

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN	0525541330

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...

Signs Preceding the End of the World

Author	Yuri Herrera
ISBN	1908276428

Yuri Herrera explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there’s no going back.

Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho...

My Life as a Rat

Author	Joyce Carol Oates
ISBN	0062899902

“A painful truth of family life: the most tender emotions can change in an instant.  You think your parents love you but is it you they love, or the child who is theirs?”  --Joyce Carol Oates, My Life as a Rat

Which should prevail: loyalty to family or loyalty to the truth? Is telling the truth...

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

Author	Nora Krug
ISBN	1476796629

Nora Krug's story of her attempt to confront the hidden truths of her family’s wartime past in Nazi Germany and to comprehend the forces that have shaped her life, her generation, and history.

Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow...

The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

Author	Tommy Tomlinson
ISBN	1501111612

The government definition of obesity is a body mass index of 30 or more. My BMI is 60.7. My shirts are size XXXXXXL, which the big-and-tall stores shorten to 6X. I’m 6-foot-1, or 73 inches tall. My waist is 60 inches around. I’m nearly a sphere.

Those are the numbers. This is how it feels…

So...

Wonder Boys

Author	Michael Chabon
ISBN	3423124172

Second only to Catcher in the Rye in my all-time favorite list of books. If you are a writer, if you've taken a creative writing class, if you've verged on totally and completely fucking up your life with sweet redemption held just at your fingertips, but which you chose to thumb your nose at for just a teensy...

Cristallisation Secrète

Author	Yōko Ogawa
ISBN	2742788298

L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...