Books similar like The Russian Debutante's Handbook

The Book of Ayn

An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn follows a writer from New York to Los Angeles to Lesbos as she searches for artistic and s…

Buy this book on Amazon

Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories

Buy this book on Amazon

Native Speaker

In Native Speaker, author Chang-rae Lee introduces readers to Henry Park. Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American—a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted cou…

Buy this book on Amazon

Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer

Young Martin Dressler begins his career as an industrious helper in his father's cigar store. In the course of his restless young manhood, he makes a swift and eventful rise to the top, accompanied b…

Buy this book on Amazon

Veronica

The extraordinary new novel from the acclaimed author of Bad Behavior and Two Girls, Fat and Thin, Veronica is about flesh and spirit, vanity, mortality, and mortal affection. Set mostly in Paris and …

Buy this book on Amazon

Gun, With Occasional Music

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems—there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kangaroo on his tail. Near-future Oakland is a brave new world where evolved animals are members of society…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Beet Queen

On a spring morning in 1932, young Karl and Mary Adare arrive by boxcar in Argus, North Dakota. After being orphaned in a most peculiar way, they seek refuge in the butcher shop of their aunt and her …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sportswriter

As a sportswriter, Frank Bascombe makes his living studying people--men, mostly--who live entirely within themselves. This is a condition that Frank himself aspires to. But at thirty-eight, he suffers…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Good Terrorist

Buy this book on Amazon

Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Buy this book on Amazon

Cahokia Jazz

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from the bestselling author of Golden Hill.

In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a sno…

Buy this book on Amazon

Great Expectations

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly anticipated debut novel from one of The New Yorker ’s rising stars.

I’d seen the Senator speak a few ti…

Buy this book on Amazon

Music for Wartime

Buy this book on Amazon

Tenth of December

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an undisputed master of the short story, and Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving…

Buy this book on Amazon

Woo Woo

A thrilling and eccentric novel about what it means to make art as a woman, and about the powerful forces of voyeurism, power, obsession, and online performanceWoo Woo follows Sabine, a conceptual art…

Buy this book on Amazon

Bluebeard

Broad humor and bitter irony collide in this fictional autobiography of Rabo Karabekian, who, at age seventy-one, wants to be left alone on his Long Island estate with the secret he has locked inside …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Book of Love

The Book of Love showcases Kelly Link at the height of her powers, channeling potent magic and attuned to all varieties of love—from friendship to romance to abiding family ties—with her trademark com…

Buy this book on Amazon

Anyone's Ghost

An extraordinary debut novel in which the transforming love and friendship between two young men during one unforgettable teenage summer in rural New England haunts them into adulthood

It took three ca…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Flamethrowers

The year is 1975 and Reno—so-called because of the place of her birth—has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosio…

Buy this book on Amazon

Pastoralia

With this new collection, George Saunders takes us even further into the shocking, uproarious and oddly familiar landscape of his imagination.

The stories in Pastoralia are set in a slightly skewed ver…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Russian Debutante's Handbook

Similar books (20)