The Mopwater Files

9 best books like The Mopwater Files (John R. Erickson): Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism, Middlegame, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Through the Woods, The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft, Shooter, Impossible Things, Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs, The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man

Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism

Author	Temple Grandin
ISBN	0679772898

Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences the world in ways that are incomprehensible...

Middlegame

Author

Seanan McGuire

Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.

Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.

Roger...

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Author	Rick Riordan
ISBN	1423113497

Humans and half-bloods agree—Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a series fit for heroes! Relive the adventure from the beginning with this boxed set of the first three books with glorious new cover art by John Rocco.

The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem...

Through the Woods

Author	Emily Carroll
ISBN	1442465956

This book freaked my shit out.

Yeah. How's that for a blurb?

"This freaked my shit out."
- Patrick Rothfuss

The truth is, this book is amazing. I've read a lot of great comics this last year, and out of all of them, this is the one that had the most profound emotional effect...

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft

Author

H.P. Lovecraft

The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.

The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.

The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory...

Shooter

Author	Walter Dean Myers
ISBN	0064472906

The groundbreaking and widely praised novel about a school shooting, from the acclaimed author of Monster. Multiple narratives, a personal journal, and newspaper and police reports add perspective and pull readers into the story.

"Questions of guilt and innocence drive the plot and...

Impossible Things

Author

Connie Willis

Winner of six Nebula and two Hugo awards for her fiction, Connie Willis is acclaimed for her gifted imagination and bold invention. Here are eleven of her finest stories, surprising tales in which the impossible becomes real, the real becomes impossible, and strangeness lurks at every turn.

The...

Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs

Author	Jeni Stepanek
ISBN	0525951423

Oprah Winfrey has called him "an inspiration," Maya Angelou saw him as a kindred spirit and fellow poet, and Jimmy Carter described Mattie Stepanek as "the most remarkable person I have ever known." When Jerry Lewis received his lifetime achievement award at the Oscars, footage of Mattie played behind...

The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man

Author	Dave Hutchinson
ISBN	1781085846

A thrilling science fiction masterwork of experimental disaster from the bestselling author of the Fractured Europe series The Guardian labelled ‘Magnificent’. 

When Alex Dolan is hired by multibillionaire Stanislaw Clayton to write a book about the Sioux Crossing Supercollider,...