NYR More

Featuring fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPost's signature lineup of contributors
GET UPDATES FROM Peter Steinberg
GET UPDATES FROM Eric Mueller
 

9 'Flashlight Worthy' Books About Friend-Fatales (PHOTOS)

Posted: 08/19/10 07:24 AM ET

One of the great things about running Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations -- a website dedicated to recommending great books by theme -- is the new way in which you see books.

Out the window go the standard genres: Goodbye, Fiction. Sayonara, Biography. Nice to know you, How-To... don't let the door hit you on the way out.

In their place say hello to much narrower themes. Have a hankering for Histories of Natural Disasters? Prefer to peruse a list of Zombie Novels? Want to go to bed with a Children's Book for a Grownup?

Or, in this case, how about a novel that features a friend-fatale, as contributed to Flashlight Worthy by Sally Koslow, author of With Friends Like These?

Where is that line, by the way, between friend and friend-fatale? Like pornography, it's hard to define, but we think these novels -- a healthy mix of classics and worthwhile chick lit -- will make it as clear as a sharp knife in the back.

See this entire book list on Flashlight Worthy here. For hundreds more book lists like this one, visit Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations.

'Cat's Eye' By Margaret Atwood
1 of 10
Even in middle-age, Elaine Risley obsesses about the lingering trauma wrought by a trio of childhood mean girls in what's considered to be the Canadian Twitter-doyenne's most autobiographical work.
Total comments: 6 | Post a Comment
1 of 10
This Friend-fatale
Just A Friend
Spot On Friend-fatale

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

  • 7

  • 8

  • 9

  • 10
Top 5 Friend-fatale
Users who voted on this slide
loading...

 

Follow Peter Steinberg on Twitter: www.twitter.com/flwbooks

One of the great things about running Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations -- a website dedicated to recommending great books by theme -- is the new way in which you see books. Out the window go t...
One of the great things about running Flashlight Worthy Book Recommendations -- a website dedicated to recommending great books by theme -- is the new way in which you see books. Out the window go t...
 
 
  • Comments
  • 6
  • Pending Comments
  • 0
  • View FAQ
Comments are closed for this entry
View All
Recency  | 
Popularity
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
dahpunkster
good music and cheap wine are my greatest comforts
09:49 PM on 08/19/2010
the brethren by john grisham - it about these three incarcerated judges that are definitely friend fatales. It is wild the scheme they are pulling.
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
dahpunkster
good music and cheap wine are my greatest comforts
09:32 PM on 08/19/2010
atwood also wrote one called robber bride about a femme fatale who tries to ruin three woman's lives who happen to be friends.it is pretty dark but good.although their aren't many good men in it.
09:45 AM on 08/19/2010
Headline shold read:

MSNBC drops business model of News and becomes Propaganda Provider for the Pentagon.
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
JR Jake
08:42 AM on 08/19/2010
Anyone who walks through life thinking that they are the best thing since ice cream and everyone and anyone will befriend you at will is poorly mistaken. The surest friends (but fallible) are family, and if you place your faith in others (including spouses) the disappointment will surface down the road.

Trust your instincts, place your faith in God alone, and be careful where you tread. Why do you think they say man's best friend is an animal (dogs to be more exact). We have already seen what this government will and won't do for its citizens, we know how business operates and people are VERY expendable.

Psalm 118:8-15
photo
alienator
the irony of the right is entertainment enough
09:02 AM on 08/19/2010
i both agree and disagree with your comment... firstly, i agree, i learned a long time ago that you can count with your fingers on one hand the number of people that can relied on in life, and two of those fingers are, hopefully, parents... secondly, i disagree... god is going to be another disappointment for all that believe... then again, disappointment ends at the end.
photo
HUFFPOST SUPER USER
InfinteShibumi
Just breathe...
01:53 PM on 08/19/2010
Well, I have always loved The Thousandth Man by Kipling on the subject: http://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/kipling_ind.html