The Symmetry Teacher

9 best books like The Symmetry Teacher (Andrei Bitov): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Territory of Light, Exhalation: Stories, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger, Danny the Champion of the World, Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry, Vernon Subutex, 2

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN	0525541330

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...

Territory of Light

Author	Yūko Tsushima
ISBN	0241312191

Territory of Light is the luminous story of a young woman, living alone in Tokyo with her three-year-old daughter. Its twelve, stand-alone fragments follow the first year of her separation from her husband. The novel is full of light, sometimes comforting and sometimes dangerous: sunlight streaming...

Exhalation: Stories

Author

Ted Chiang

An alternate cover edition for this book can be found here.

From an award-winning science fiction writer (whose short story "The Story of Your Life" was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated movie Arrival), the long-awaited new collection of stunningly original, humane, and already...

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Author

Deborah Levy

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Author	Andrew Solomon
ISBN	0684854678

Sometimes, the legacy of depression includes a wisdom beyond one's years, a depth of passion unexperienced by those who haven't traveled to hell and back. Off the charts in its enlightening, comprehensive analysis of this pervasive yet misunderstood condition, The Noonday Demon forges a long, brambly...

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

Author	Soraya Chemaly
ISBN	1501189557

A transformative book urging twenty-first century-women to embrace their anger and harness it as a tool for lasting personal and societal change.

Women are angry, and it isn’t hard to figure out why.

We are underpaid and overworked. Too sensitive, or not sensitive enough. Too...

Danny the Champion of the World

Author	Roald Dahl
ISBN	0375814256

Danny’s life seems perfect: his home is a gypsy caravan, he’s the youngest car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. And when Danny discovers his father’s secret, he’s off on the adventure of a lifetime. Here’s Roald Dahl’s famous...

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

Author	B.S. Johnson
ISBN	0330484826

Christie Malry is a simple man. His job in a bank puts him next to, but not in possession of, money. As a clerk he learns the principles of Double-Entry Bookkeeping and adapts them in his own dramatic fashion to settle his personal account with society.

Under the column headed 'Aggravation' for...

Vernon Subutex, 2

Author

Virginie Despentes

I'm officially addicted to the Subutex series - this stuff just speaks to me. Short recap: After Vernon had to close his record store and lost his old friend and benefactor, rock star Alex Bleach, to a drug overdose, he ended up homeless in the streets of Paris. But as he is in possession of the last video...