The Wasteland & Four Quartets

10 best books like The Wasteland & Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot): Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, The Late Mattia Pascal, Novecento. Un monologo, Survival in Auschwitz, Other Words for Home, I'm Not Dying with You Tonight, At the Mountains of Madness, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church, Interrupted: An Adventure in Relearning the Essentials of Faith, How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Author	Beth Macy
ISBN	0316523178

Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs; from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns; it's a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national...

The Late Mattia Pascal

Author	Luigi Pirandello
ISBN	1590171152

Mattia Pascal endures a life of drudgery in a provincial town. Then, providentially, he discovers that he has been declared dead. Realizing he has a chance to start over, to do it right this time, he moves to a new city, adopts a new name, and a new course of life—only to find that this new existence is as...

Novecento. Un monologo

Author	Alessandro Baricco
ISBN	8807813025

Il Virginian era un piroscafo. Negli anni tra le due guerre faceva la spola tra Europa e America, con il suo carico di miliardari, di emigranti e di gente qualsiasi. Dicono che sul Virginian si esibisse ogni sera un pianista straordinario, dalla tecnica strabiliante, capace di suonare una musica mai...

Survival in Auschwitz

Author	Primo Levi
ISBN	0684826801

The true and harrowing account of Primo Levi’s experience at the German concentration camp of Auschwitz and his miraculous survival; hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a “true work of art, this edition includes an exclusive conversation between the author and Philip Roth.

In...

Other Words for Home

Author

Jasmine Warga

I am learning how to be
sad
and happy
at the same time.

Jude never thought she’d be leaving her beloved older brother and father behind, all the way across the ocean in Syria. But when things in her hometown start becoming volatile, Jude and her mother are sent to live in Cincinnati...

I'm Not Dying with You Tonight

Author	Kimberly Jones
ISBN	1492678899

Lena and Campbell aren't friends.

Lena has her killer style, her awesome boyfriend, and a plan. She knows she's going to make it big. Campbell, on the other hand, is just trying to keep her head down and get through the year at her new school.

When both girls attend the Friday-night football...

At the Mountains of Madness

Author	H.P. Lovecraft
ISBN	0812974417

Long acknowledged as a master of nightmarish vision, H.P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of...

Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Author	Rachel Held Evans
ISBN	0718022122

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Held Evans comes a book that is both a heartfelt ode to the past and hopeful gaze into the future of what it means to be a part of the Church.


Like millions of her millennial peers, Rachel Held Evans didn't want to go to church anymore. The hypocrisy,...

Interrupted: An Adventure in Relearning the Essentials of Faith

Author	Jen Hatmaker
ISBN	1600062172

Not that impressed. The last chapter was the best (although it got a little repetitive) - I absolutely agree that Christians must learn to reach their particular culture and become all things to all people. I also agree that American Christians (including myself) are way too consumeristic...

How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

Author	Joanna Faber
ISBN	1501131656

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.”

For over thirty-five years,...

Scritti corsari

Author	Pier Paolo Pasolini
ISBN	8811675200

Pasolini? Pasolini!
Se gli Scritti corsari rappresentano il meglio della produzione giornalistica di Pasolini e Pasolini è uno dei massimi intellettuali italiani, allora siamo messi male. Parecchio male. Eppure, a ravanare tra i commenti qua e là per il web, è difficile trovare una critica...

Saker min son behöver veta om världen

Author	Fredrik Backman
ISBN	9137138669

English title: "Things my son needs to know about the world".


"Till min son. Jag ber om din förlåtelse redan nu. För alla gånger jag kommer skämma ut dig. För charterresorna. Cowboyhatten. 'Riktiga män väger över 90 kilo'-t-shirten. För att jag gör min pappa-hade-rätt-och-mamma-hade-fel-dans...

Maya's Notebook

Author	Isabel Allende
ISBN	0062105620

Isabel Allende’s latest novel, set in the present day (a new departure for the author), tells the story of a 19-year-old American girl who finds refuge on a remote island off the coast of Chile after falling into a life of drugs, crime, and prostitution. There, in the company of a torture survivor, a...