This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers

9 best books like This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers (Elizabeth Merrick): White Hot, Calling Dr. Laura, Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, The Backstagers, Vol. 1: Rebels Without Applause, Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence, Imagine Wanting Only This, Dear Data, The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic, The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time

White Hot

Author	Sandra Brown
ISBN	0743245539

When she hears that her younger brother Danny has committed suicide, Sayre Lynch relents from her vow never to return to Destiny, the small Louisiana town in which she grew up. She plans to leave immediately after the funeral, but instead soon finds herself drawn into the web cast by Huff Hoyle, her controlling...

Calling Dr. Laura

Author	Nicole J. Georges
ISBN	0547615590

When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was twenty-three, a psychic told her he was alive. Her sister, saddled with guilt, admits that the psychic is right and that the whole family has conspired to keep him a secret. Sent into a tailspin about her identity,...

Manga Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

Author	Richard Appignanesi
ISBN	0810970724

In Shakespeare’s enduring tale of ancient Rome, Julius Caesar is at the height of his powers—but there are men plotting his destruction. Is Caesar a tyrant or a dynamic leader? Are his enemies greedy or noble? The Manga Shakespeare adaptation of this important work maintains the language—and...

The Backstagers, Vol. 1: Rebels Without Applause

Author	James Tynion IV
ISBN	1608869938

All the world's a stage . . . but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic literally!

When Jory transfers to an all-boys private high school, he's taken in by the only ones who don't treat him like a new kid, the lowly stage crew known as the Backstagers. Not only does he gain great, lifetime...

Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Author	Ben Carson
ISBN	0310269008

This book is for you if your life is a series of shattered dreams. This book is for you if you have no dreams at all. It's for you if you've bought the lie that you'll never amount to anything. That's not true. Your life is BIG--far bigger than you've imagined. Inside these pages lie the keys to recognizing...

Imagine Wanting Only This

Author	Kristen Radtke
ISBN	1101870834

A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief

When Kristen Radtke was in college, the sudden death of a beloved uncle and the sight of an abandoned mining town after his funeral marked the beginning moments of a lifelong fascination with ruins and with people and places...

Dear Data

Author

Giorgia Lupi

I wish I could rate this higher than five stars - honestly, I really do. This book has inspired me endlessly! As a graphic design enthusiast (and budding graphic designer), this was a huge amount of motivation and it has inspired me to start collecting my own data sets and illustrating them in quirky ways....

The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic

Author	Emma
ISBN	1609809181

A new voice in comics is incisive, funny, and fiercely feminist.

"The mental load. It's incessant, gnawing, exhausting, and disproportionately falls to women. You know the scene--you're making dinner, calling the plumber/doctor/mechanic, checking homework and answering work emails--at...

The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time

Author	David H. Lowenherz
ISBN	0517223333

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . .

Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Much the way light displays every color when passed through a prism, love letters express the spectrum...