The Venetian Years

7 best books like The Venetian Years (Giacomo Casanova): The Red Necklace, Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, Lolly Willowes, The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave, The Spire, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts, On Grand Strategy

The Red Necklace

Author

Sally Gardner

The winds of change are blowing through Paris in the winter of 1789, both for France and for our hero, a striking and mysterious Gypsy boy named Yann Margoza. He was born with a gift for knowing what people are thinking and an uncanny ability to throw his voice, and he has been using those skills while working...

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book

Author	Walker Percy
ISBN	0312253990

I have read and reread this book half a dozen times. No doubt that number will reach a dozen or more during the course of my lifetime. It is, first of all, absolutely hilarious: a subtler, non-narrative, written precursor to "I Heart Huckabees." Who are we? Why are we here? What is the problem of the Self...

Lolly Willowes

Author	Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN	0940322161

This is a book about witches. But when I finally put this book down last night, I mostly just thought about my father.

I don’t think it is controversial to say that duty is a bit of an old fashioned word these days. Like honor. It’s one of those words you hear someone say and squirm uncomfortably,...

The Future is Female! Women's Science Fiction Stories from the Pulp Era to the New Wave

Author

Lisa Yaszek

Space-opera heroines, gender-bending aliens, post-apocalyptic pregnancies, changeling children, interplanetary battles of the sexes, and much more: a groundbreaking new collection of classic American science fiction by women from the 1920s to the 1960s

Warning: the visionary women...

The Spire

Author	William Golding
ISBN	0571225462

Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mason anxiously advises against it, for the old cathedral was built without foundations. Nevertheless, the spire rises octagon upon octagon, pinnacle by pinnacle, until the stone pillars shriek and the ground...

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts

Author	Douglas Adams
ISBN	0434003484

* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
* Life, the Universe and Everything
* So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish
* Mostly Harmless

Suppose a good friend calmly told you over a round of drinks that the world was about to end? And suppose...

On Grand Strategy

Author	John Lewis Gaddis
ISBN	1594203512

A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary program the author has co-taught at Yale for decades

John Lewis Gaddis, the distinguished historian of the Cold War, has for almost two decades co-taught grand strategy at Yale University with his colleagues Charles Hill...