Unlikely Stories, Mostly
7 best books like Unlikely Stories, Mostly (Alasdair Gray): Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, The Devil's Elixirs, Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World, Akira, Vol. 2, Akira, Vol. 3
Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
| Author | Jorge Luis Borges |
| ISBN | 0811200124 |
Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges of Argentina is recognized all over the world as one of the most original and significant figures in modern literature. In his preface, Andre Maurois writes: "Borges is a great writer who has composed only...
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
| Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| ISBN | 0307397874 |
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A...
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 1906210187 |
The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travels towards Rome he wrestles with the enigma of his own identity while pursued by his murderous doppelganger. The monk's only hope for salvation lies with the beautiful Aurelie; but in order to escape the...
Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 1: The Assassin's Road
| Author | Kazuo Koike |
| ISBN | 1569715025 |
The role of comic books in America is in transition, and so comics hold a tenuous and unusual position in the American psyche. To some degree, they are still considered dirty and cheap, still artistically bankrupt, and there are good reasons for this. For a long time, the industry had its hands tied by...
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
From a universal basic income to a 15-hour workweek, from a world without borders to a world without poverty – it’s time to return to utopian thinking.
Rutger Bregman takes us on a journey through history, beyond the traditional left-right divides, as he introduces ideas whose time has...
| Author | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| ISBN | 1569714991 |
You just cannot put this book down. Akira's second volume is pure, non-stop action from start to end. I love how Katsuhiro Otomo brings in all the characters and play their part without making the reading experience overcrowded. Even without the film as a reference, this book is oozing with cinematic...
| Author | Katsuhiro Otomo |
| ISBN | 1569715254 |
In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira -- the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an angry young man with immense and rapidly...
