Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective
10 best books like Tom Sawyer Abroad / Tom Sawyer, Detective (Mark Twain): The Lost World, 4:50 from Paddington, The Seven Against Thebes, Dumb Witness, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale, The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction, Kidnapped and Catriona, The Duel and Other Stories, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
| Author | Arthur Conan Doyle |
| ISBN | 0812967259 |
Move aside, Sherlock…Sir Arthur has conjured a protagonist who's an even more arrogant assbag than you.
Everyone...the intrepid, the indefatigable, the insufferable Professor G.E. Challenger…
If, like me, you enjoy characters that are gruff, prideful curmudgeonly...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 1579126936 |
Elspeth McGillicuddy is not given to hallucinations. Until she witnesses a murder at Paddington Station. But did she? No victim, no suspect, no other witnesses. In fact no one believes it really happened at all. Except her friend Miss Jane Marple, and she's returning to the scene of the crime to discover...
| Author | Aeschylus |
| ISBN | 0486414205 |
Often called the father of Greek tragedy, Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.) was the earliest and possibly the greatest of the Greek tragic poets. Altogether he may have written as many as 90 plays (including satyr plays as well as tragedies), but only seven have survived.
The Seven Against Thebes (first...
| Author | Agatha Christie |
| ISBN | 0007120796 |
An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home. Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions...
$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America
| Author | Kathryn Edin |
| ISBN | 0544303180 |
A revelatory account of poverty in America so deep that we, as a country, don’t think it exists
Jessica Compton’s family of four would have no cash income unless she donated plasma twice a week at her local donation center in Tennessee. Modonna Harris and her teenage daughter Brianna in...
The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale
| Author | Lord Byron |
| ISBN | 1425035620 |
This is such a dark and twisted poem that sees a Byronic hero in his full force. The hero is persecuted and haunted by his actions; he has become less they he once was. He has murdered a man in the name of justice, but he is full regret for such a brutal act. His soul is divided. He is full of melancholy and woe,...
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction
| Author | Meghan Cox Gurdon |
| ISBN | 0062562835 |
A Wall Street Journal writer’s conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another,...
| Author | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0192817264 |
Kidnapped and Catriona
Published in the magazine Young Folks in 1886, Kidnapped was intended as a novel for boys treating the youth and adolescence of the Scottish lad David Balfour, but is in fact much more than that because of the vivid descriptions of the Scottish highlands and the fine fathoming...
The Duel and Other Stories
| Author | Anton Chekhov |
| ISBN | 0140444157 |
I enjoyed all of Chekhov's stories in this book but his short story The Duel is the best. Set in the seaside town of Caucasus (interestingly, as I write this, in 2012, one is highly discouraged by the U.S. government from visiting this area, which is a shame, because it is, from Chekhov's description, quite...
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
| Author | Hilda D. Spear |
| ISBN | 0333372867 |
I can't believe I'm rating this 4 stars! The entire time I read it, I kept thinking, I can't stand this book, it's so bizarre, what's wrong with all these psycho characters, it's so dark etc.... But I couldn't put the book down! How often does that happen with classics? Not that often when I'm reading them!...
