Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould

6 best books like Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould (Kevin Bazzana): Unaccustomed Earth, Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan, Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Unaccustomed Earth

Author	Jhumpa Lahiri
ISBN	0676979343

Eight stories—longer and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet written—that take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers.

From the internationally best-selling,...

Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

Author	Katherine Eban
ISBN	0062338803

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From an award-winning journalist, an explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers on a global scale—The Jungle for pharmaceuticals

Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Author	Carl Sagan
ISBN	0345409469

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific...

Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq

Author

Thomas E. Ricks

Thomas Ricks - image from the Bangor Daily News

Fiasco offers a very detailed look into the disaster that has been the US invasion of Iraq. For those of us who have read more than a few books on the subject there is an unavoidable repetition of information seen elsewhere, but there is sufficient...

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan

Author	Herbert P. Bix
ISBN	0060931302

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose sixty-three-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial...

Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations

Author	Ronen Bergman
ISBN	1400069718

The first definitive history of the Mossad, Shin Bet, and the IDF’s targeted killing programs, from the man hailed by David Remnick as “arguably [Israel’s] best investigative reporter”

The Talmud says: “If someone comes to kill you, rise up and kill him first.” This instinct...