The Saskiad
8 best books like The Saskiad (Brian Hall): The Bookshop on the Shore, The Princess and the Goblin, Tricks, The Red Tree, Year of the Monkey, The Book of Ballads, The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, Kaddish.com
The Bookshop on the Shore
| Author | Jenny Colgan |
| ISBN | 0062850180 |
A grand baronial house on Loch Ness, a quirky small-town bookseller, and a single mom looking for a fresh start all come together in this witty and warm-hearted novel by New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan.
Desperate to escape from London, single mother Zoe wants to build a new life...
The Princess and the Goblin
| Author | George MacDonald |
| ISBN | 0140367462 |
Published in 1872, The Princess and the Goblin is one of the first books in the modern fantasy genre. This book had tremendous and very visible influence on all the (now much more famous) authors that came after it.
It is of course very dated. It does not match the standards that fantasy have created...
| Author | Ellen Hopkins |
| ISBN | 1416950079 |
Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching ... for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don't expect,...
| Author | Caitlín R. Kiernan |
| ISBN | 0451462769 |
Sarah Crowe left Atlanta--and the remnants of a tumultuous relationship--to live in an old house in rural Rhode Island. Within its walls she discovers an unfinished manuscript written by the house's former tenant--an anthropologist obsessed with the ancient oak growing on a desolate corner of the...
| Author | Patti Smith |
| ISBN | 0525657681 |
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.
Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
| Author | Charles Vess |
| ISBN | 0765312158 |
In this graphic novel, Charles Vess illustrates many traditional folk ballads that have been rewritten by some fairly popular fantasy artists like Neil Gaiman or Emma Bull.
I didn't realize how many traditional ballads have negative interactions with strangers as their primary topic....
The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America
| Author | Karen Abbott |
| ISBN | 0451498623 |
The epic true crime story of bootlegger George Remus and the murder that shocked the nation, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sin in the Second City and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy
In the early days of Prohibition, long before Al Capone became a household name, a German immigrant...
| Author | Nathan Englander |
| ISBN | 1524732753 |
The Pulitzer finalist delivers his best work yet--a brilliant, streamlined comic novel, reminiscent of early Philip Roth and of his own most masterful stories, about a son's failure to say Kaddish for his father
Larry is an atheist in a family of orthodox Memphis Jews. When his father dies,...
