The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology

5 best books like The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (Gordon Van Gelder): The Curse of Chalion, A Lesson Before Dying, The Best American Short Stories 2011, To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee, Beneath the Bonfire

The Curse of Chalion

Author	Lois McMaster Bujold
ISBN	0007133618

A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril, has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, as the secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule.

It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it will...

A Lesson Before Dying

Author	Ernest J. Gaines
ISBN	0375702709

A Lesson Before Dying is set in a small Cajun community in the late 1940s. Jefferson, a young black man, is an unwitting party to a liquor store shoot out in which three men are killed; the only survivor, he is convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Grant Wiggins, who left his hometown for the university,...

The Best American Short Stories 2011

Author	Geraldine Brooks
ISBN	0547242166

The Best American Series®
First, Best, and Best-Selling

The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special...

To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

Author	Jean Armstrong
ISBN	0333398548

I first read "To Kill a Mocking Bird" in high school. I enjoyed it then and I enjoyed it now. (sometimes when you read books with more mature eyes, the book doesn't seem as good)
The setting of this story is a small town in Alabama in the early 1930's. As in many towns of its time, prejudice was rampant....

Beneath the Bonfire

Author	Nickolas Butler
ISBN	1250039835

Young couples gather to participate in an annual "chainsaw party," cutting down trees for firewood in anticipation of the winter. A group of men spend a weekend hunting for mushrooms in the wilderness where they grew up and where some still find themselves trapped. An aging environmentalist takes...