The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov

7 best books like The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov (Andrea Pitzer): Pale Fire, The Invention of Morel, Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law, Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales, Pnin, Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters, Laughter in the Dark

Pale Fire

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0141185260

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous?...

The Invention of Morel

Author	Adolfo Bioy Casares
ISBN	1590170571

Jorge Luis Borges declared The Invention of Morel a masterpiece of plotting, comparable to The Turn of the Screw and Journey to the Center of the Earth. This fantastic exploration of realities also bears comparison with the sharpest work of Philip K. Dick. It is both a story of suspense and a bizarre romance,...

Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment, and the Rule of Law

Author

Preet Bharara

By the one-time federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, an important overview of the way our justice system works, and why the rule of law is essential to our society. Using case histories, personal experiences and his own inviting writing and teaching style, Preet Bharara shows the...

Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales

Author	H.P. Lovecraft
ISBN	0575081562

All right, with this one under my belt, I think I can safely say that I’ve read everything Lovecraft has ever written in his life. I will then skip introducing the author––who doesn’t need any introduction, anyway––and go through a rundown of some of my most beloved horror stories of his,...

Pnin

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	1400041988

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950's. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series...

Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters

Author	Richard P. Rumelt
ISBN	0307886255

Clears out the mumbo jumbo and muddled thinking underlying too many strategies and provides a clear way to create and implement a powerful action-oriented strategy for the real world
 
Developing and implementing a strategy is the central task of a leader, whether the CEO at a Fortune 100...

Laughter in the Dark

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0811216748

"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells...