The Mountain Lion
10 best books like The Mountain Lion (Jean Stafford): Selected Tales, The Future of Another Timeline, The Topeka School, How We Fight For Our Lives, Independence Day, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, Rappaccini's Daughter, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, The Summer Book, The Driver's Seat
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0140621164 |
The undisputed master of terror and mystery, Edgar Allan Poe was a unique inventor in fiction.
In 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and 'The Black Cat' he wrote the first and best tales of terror; with 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' and his fictional detective M. Dupin he invented the detective...
The Future of Another Timeline
| Author | Annalee Newitz |
| ISBN | 0765392127 |
From Annalee Newitz, founding editor of io9, comes a story of time travel, murder, and the lengths we'll go to protect the ones we love.
1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat,...
| Author | Ben Lerner |
| ISBN | 0374277788 |
From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right
Adam Gordon...
How We Fight For Our Lives
| Author | Saeed Jones |
| ISBN | 1501132733 |
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to...
| Author | Richard Ford |
| ISBN | 0099447126 |
In this second novel of Richard Ford’s Frank Bascombe quartet, I was drawn further into the microcosm life and lifestyle of not only the man, but also the macrocosm of America – the environment and history that parallels the structure of his life.
In this second novel Frank is experiencing...
| Author | James Hilton |
| ISBN | 0316010138 |
Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster.
Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870, takes readers on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes Chips, as he is affectionately known, is an old man who dreams by the fire;...
| Author | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| ISBN | 1419143956 |
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving,...
1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
| Author | Peter Boxall |
| ISBN | 0789313707 |
For discerning bibliophiles and readers who enjoy unforgettable classic literature, 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die is a trove of reviews covering a century of memorable writing. Each work of literature featured here is a seminal work key to understanding and appreciating the written word.The...
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 0954221710 |
An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings for independence, and a fierce yet understated love emerges - one that encompasses not only the summer...
| Author | Muriel Spark |
| ISBN | 0141188340 |
Was it murder or was it suicide? And did that matter to the 'heroine'? This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to...
| Author | Benjamin Black |
| ISBN | 0805081526 |
In the debut crime novel from the Booker-winning author, a Dublin pathologist follows the corpse of a mysterious woman into the heart of a conspiracy among the city’s high Catholic society
It’s not the dead that seem strange to Quirke. It’s the living. One night, after a few drinks at...
| Author | Trisha Low |
| ISBN | 0984647554 |
Fiction. Poetry. Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Trisha Low is just another feminist, confessional writer trying to find a good way to deal with all her literary dads. She siphons the remix culture of social media into the binge and purge cycle of an engrossing read, with the emphasis on gross....
| Author | Russell Hoban |
| ISBN | 0747548315 |
Review published in 3:AM Magazine: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/turtle...
It would be understandable to expect Russell Hoban’s Turtle Diary to be a light-hearted romantic comedy, one where two lonely protagonists come together over a crazy caper, a plan to set free...
| Author | Evan S. Connell |
| ISBN | 0865470561 |
Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0865470561 / 9780865470569 can be found here
The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge, tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.
Before Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique there was...
| Author | Susan Steinberg |
| ISBN | 1555978479 |
A haunting story of guilt and blame in the wake of a drowning, the first novel by the author of
Spectacle
Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine, is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves...
| Author | Evan S. Connell |
| ISBN | 0865470545 |
Walter Bridge is an ambitious lawyer who redoubles his efforts and time at the office whenever he senses that his family needs something, even when what they need is more of him and less of his money. Affluence, material assets, and comforts create a cocoon of community respectability that cloaks the...
| Author | Darius James |
| ISBN | 0312093500 |
A satire in which a snotty, overprivileged, and despite trying-too-hard-to-be-with-it, racist brat is hexed after being insulting & disrespectful to the family maid. But rather than bringing external curses on her, it does what the best hexes should----stirs up all of her own subconscious...
This is an entertaining book of epistolary poems in prose which light up a young farmer's year through external and internal signs and cues, reaching out and reaching in, the lightness of being, loving, and dreaming. The poems don’t really tell any stories but they narrate an enchanting and intellectually...
