The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
10 best books like The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street (Charles Nicholl): A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, A Rip in Heaven, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, Shakespeare: The Biography, Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, The House of Wittgenstein: A Family at War, We'll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin' Show-Biz Saga, Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance, Tip It!: The World According to Maggie, This Way Home
| Author | James Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0060088745 |
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling...
| Author | Jeanine Cummins |
| ISBN | 0451210530 |
True crime is a somewhat seedy literary genre. At the bookstore, it is usually tucked away in a far corner, in the same way an old video store hid the adult fare behind strings of beads. It is hard to explain away a fascination with true crime, because it’s typically a deep wallow in the worst kind of depravity...
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0393352609 |
A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an...
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus. With characteristic narrative panache, Ackroyd...
Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption
| Author | Jennifer Thompson-Cannino |
| ISBN | 0312376537 |
Jennifer Thompson was raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept. She was able to escape, and eventually positively identified Ronald Cotton as her attacker. Ronald insisted that she was mistaken-- but Jennifer's positive identification was the compelling evidence...
| Author | Alexander Waugh |
| ISBN | 0385520603 |
From Alexander Waugh, the author of the acclaimed memoir Fathers and Sons, comes a grand saga of a brilliant and tragic Viennese family.
The Wittgenstein family was one of the richest, most talented, and most eccentric in European history. Karl Wittgenstein, who ran away from home as a wayward...
| Author | Paul Shaffer |
| ISBN | 0385524838 |
From Paul Shaffer, lifelong music junkie, hipster, and longtime leader of David Letterman's band, comes a candid, endearing, hilarious, and star-studded memoir of a life in-and love of-show business.
How does a kid go from a remote Canadian town at the tip of Lake Superior to the bright lights...
Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance
| Author | David Archuleta |
| ISBN | 0451230183 |
Singing sensation and American Idol favorite David Archuleta tells his inspiring personal story. Includes full-color photos!
A runner-up on American Idol and successful music artist, David Archuleta was named one of the "breakout stars of 2008" by Forbes magazine and landed the number...
Tip It!: The World According to Maggie
| Author | Maggie Griffin |
| ISBN | 1401324045 |
Dear Readers, There are at least five good reasons to Tip It! right now. 1. My daughter Kathy put out her memoir last year, which was real nice except for the controversial parts. And it got to be a #1 New York Times bestseller. Congratulations, Kathleen! But now it's my turn. I've written my own book. I have...
| Author | Wes Moore |
| ISBN | 0385741693 |
One young man searches for a place to call home in this gut-wrenching, honest novel from New York Times bestselling author Wes Moore with Shawn Goodman.
Elijah Thomas knows one thing better than anyone around him: basketball. At seventeen, he’s earned the reputation of a top-level player,...
State of the Union: A Marriage in Ten Parts
| Author | Nick Hornby |
| ISBN | 0593087348 |
A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity.
"Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent, and emotionally generous all at once." - The New...
