The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories
10 best books like The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories (Saki): The Nonesuch, Rabbits for Food, Famous Men Who Never Lived, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, Castle Waiting, Vol. 1, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, A Game of Hide and Seek, Man-Eaters, Vol. 1, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession, The Old Man and Me
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| ISBN | 0099474387 |
ETA: Upping my rating to a solid 4 stars on reread. The things that bothered me most the first time I read this bothered me less this time around. I was able to be more amused by Tiffany the spoiled brat, not just annoyed. It’s pretty funny to see how Sir Waldo and Miss Trent manage her.
I don't always...
| Author | Binnie Kirshenbaum |
| ISBN | 1641290536 |
A heartbreaking, irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny meditation on what it's like to lose your mind from acclaimed novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum.
It’s New Year’s Eve, the holiday of forced gaiety, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's...
Famous Men Who Never Lived
| Author | K Chess |
| ISBN | 1947793241 |
Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States—an alternate timeline—she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology...
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'.
Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and...
| Author | Linda Medley |
| ISBN | 1560977477 |
Castle Waiting graphic novel tells the story of an isolated, abandoned castle, and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life. A fable for modern times, Castle Waiting is a fairy tale that's not about rescuing the princess, saving the kingdom, or fighting the ultimate war between Good and Evil,...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
| Author | Laurence Sterne |
| ISBN | 0141439777 |
No one description will fit this strange, eccentric, endlessly complex masterpiece. It is a fiction about fiction-writing in which the invented world is as much infused with wit and genius as the theme of inventing it. It is a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction, and...
Harriet and Vesey meet when they are teenagers, and their love is as intense and instantaneous as it is innocent. But they are young. All life still lies ahead. Vesey heads off hopefully to pursue a career as an actor. Harriet marries and has a child, becoming a settled member of suburban society. And then...
| Author | Chelsea Cain |
| ISBN | 1534311432 |
After the brilliant but short-lived run on Marvel's Mockingbird I was ready to read anything else by Chelsea Cain, so I was really happy when Man-Eaters by her and Kate Niemczyk was announced. This is a comic with an absolutely bonkers premise — what if a mutated version of Toxoplasmosis caused certain...
Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
| Author | Rachel Monroe |
| ISBN | 1501188887 |
A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four archetypes—Detective, Victim, Attorney, Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession.
In this illuminating exploration of women, violence, and obsession, Rachel Monroe...
| Author | Elaine Dundy |
| ISBN | 1590173171 |
In The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy revealed the life of the young expatriate in Paris in all its hilarious and heartbreaking drama. With The Old Man and Me, written when Dundy was living in England in the early 1960s, she tackles the American girl in London, a bit older but certainly no wiser.
Honey...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 0452010934 |
What is Psychological Complexity?
Why revisit "Notes from Underground" now? First, because the psychology of the first part, in particular, is so complex that it continues to evade readers. I know I did not understand much of what the narrator was proposing when I first read “Notes from...
| Author | Arthur Koestler |
| ISBN | 0140192468 |
An extraordinary history of humanity's changing vision of the universe. In this masterly synthesis, Arthur Koestler cuts through the sterile distinction between 'sciences' and 'humanities' to bring to life the whole history of cosmology from the Babylonians to Newton. He shows how the tragic split...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0061239534 |
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the lives of Toby and Lou Maytree. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work.
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle...
We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations that Matter
| Author | Celeste Headlee |
| ISBN | 0062669028 |
“WE NEED TO TALK.”
In this urgent and insightful book, public radio journalist Celeste Headlee shows us how to bridge what divides us--by having real conversations
BASED ON THE TED TALK WITH OVER 10 MILLION VIEWS
NPR's Best Books of 2017
Winner of the 2017 Silver...
Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Two
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1401222358 |
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.
Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied...
Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Three
Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN: 9781401225780
Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers that he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied...
Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Four
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1401228887 |
The continuation of Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra’s acclaimed VERTIGO series Y: THE LAST MAN brings to vivid life the age-old speculation: What would really happen to the last man on Earth?
In 2002, the world changes forever. Every man, every boy, every mammal with a Y chromosome...
Y: The Last Man - The Deluxe Edition Book Five
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 1401230512 |
In this final deluxe edition, Yorick and Agent 355 prepare for their ultimate quest to reunite the last man with his lost love, while the person, people or thing behind the disaster that wiped out half of humanity is revealed. Then, Yorick Brown’s long journey through an Earth populated only by women...
| Author | Helen Weinzweig |
| ISBN | 1487000472 |
A lost feminist classic — and winner of the Toronto Book Award — reissued to coincide with the 35th anniversary of publication.
In her yearning, elusive search for a lover, Shirley Kaszenbowski sheds her drab “basic black” existence together with torturous memories of guilt and...
| Author | Tove Jansson |
| ISBN | 0954899539 |
Winner of the 2009 Bernard Shaw Prize for Translation
Fair Play is the type of love story that is rarely told, a revelatory depiction of contentment, hard-won and exhilarating.
Mari is a writer and Jonna is an artist, and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building, their...
