Books like Anagrams by Lorrie Moore

Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award‑winning alternate‑history novel imagines a world where World War II ends with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan ruling the former United States, exploring the political intrigue and daily life under this totalitarian regime.

Candide: A Tale of Conviviality and Optimism in a Wretched World

Jennifer Egan’s interlocking narratives weave the lives of Bennie Salazar, a former punk rocker turned record executive, and Sasha, a restless young woman, across decades and continents, exploring music, memory and the fragile threads that bind us.

David Levithan’s *The Lover's Dictionary* captures the ups and downs of a romantic partnership in the form of alphabetic entries, offering a fresh, intimate look at love’s everyday and transcendent moments.

Julia Springer, a newly wealthy widow in a small Southern town, finds her quiet life shattered when a church member announces a scandal—her late husband’s illegitimate child is now under her care.

Three sisters struggle to reconcile their faith with the world outside the convent.

Olive Kitteridge follows a retired teacher in a small Maine coastal town as she navigates love, loss and the quiet complexities of middle‑age life.

A tale of moral ambiguity and marital upheaval.

A high‑school drama teacher stages "Lysistrata," sparking a town’s women to boldly reject their partners, forcing everyone to rethink love, desire, and relationship dynamics.

A remarkable friendship and its enduring journey of two remarkable women from the postwar era of the 1950s, told with vividly descriptive language and a relatable narrative.

In 1967 Calcutta, a family’s quiet life shatters as political radicalism and generational conflict spill into their domestic sphere.

Agnes Browne and her seven "Chisellers" face new trials as their tenement faces demolition, while love and laughter continue to bind them in this humorous Dublin family saga.

In the English village of Riseholme, Lucia rules social life with wit and flair, until a new neighbor threatens her reign.

Description: xv, 245 p. ; 22 cm. Contents: Lies / Glenda Adams -- Betty / Margaret Atwood -- Gorilla, my love / Toni Cade Bambara -- Gryphon / Charles Baxter -- Daley's girls / Catherine Brady -- His son, in his arms, in light, aloft / Harold Brodkey -- The point / Charles D'Ambrosio, Jr. -- I know some things / D.J. Durnam -- Signs and wonders / Max Garland -- Sex and death to the age 14 / Spalding Gray -- Gwen / Jamaica Kincaid -- My mother's clothes: the school of beauty and shame / Richard McCann -- The Ponoes / Peter Meinke -- Murderers / Leonard Michaels -- Hiding / Susan Minot -- The turkey season / Alice Munro. Beautiful my mane in the wind / Catherine Petroski -- Out-of-the-body travel / Sheila Schwartz -- Rules of the game / Amy Tan -- Dog Heaven / Stephanie Vaughn. Responsibility: edited by Lorrie Moore. Abstract: "When writers of fiction have made the effort to explore the mottled landscape of a child's secrets and understanding, they have often created stories of ferocious poignancy," writes Lorrie Moore in her introduction to this dazzling collection of stories about childhood. I Know Some Things presents the innocence and knowingness of a child's-eye view as it confronts the contradictions and hypocrisies of the adult world. Some of today's best writers, including Margaret Atwood, Toni Cade Bambara, Harold Brodkey, Spalding Gray, Jamaica Kincaid, Susan Minot, Alice Munro and Amy Tan, capture childhood incidents that are comic, startling, touching and disturbing. Each story is told by a child character or by the adult who was that child, skillfully preserving the child's voice and role as actor and witness in the drama. The stories all explore pivotal moments in childhood when something becomes known, something is tested, some turning point reached. With "the wily, rhetorical manipulations and inventions of someone not yet part of the grown-up world," writes Moore, child narrators show us the ways in which adult actions resonate through children, and the real import of childhood perceptions, allegiances and decisions. Chosen for their insight and sheer literary brilliance, these stories range across age, gender, class, ethnicity and geography. Together they disrupt easy notions of childhood obliviousness and naivete, and will not fail to touch the child in any adult.

In "Mapp and Lucia," the pretentious Miss Mapp and the devious Lucia clash in the quaint village of Tilling, each vying for social supremacy amid snobbish tea parties and jealous bridges.