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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Duchess of Bloomsbury Street
Helene Hanff · 137 pages
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Charles Bukowski · 142 pages
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on M
Journal of a Solitude
May Sarton · 208 pages
"I am here alone for the first time in weeks," May Sarton begins this book, "to take up my 'real' life again at last. That is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love,are not my real life, unless there is time alone in which to explore what is happening or what has happened." In this journal, she says, "I hope to break through into the rough, rocky depths,to the matrix itself. There is v
Ball Four
Jim Bouton · 472 pages
Twentieth-anniversary edition of a baseball classic, with a new epilogue by Jim Bouton. When first published in 1970, Ball Four stunned the sports world. The commissioner, executives, and players were shocked. Sportswriters called author Jim Bouton a traitor and "social leper." Baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn tried to force him to declare the book untrue. Fans, however, loved the book. And seriou
The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay & Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks)
Emma Thompson · 287 pages
Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An extraordinary diary of courage from the Vietnam War
Dang Thuy Tram · 256 pages
An extraordinary diary from 'The Vietnamese Anne Frank', now in paperbackLast Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. Not only is it an important slice of history, from the opposite side of Dispatches and Apocalypse Now, but it shows the diarist - Dang Thuy Tram
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador
Angelina Jolie, Caspian Tredwell-Owen · 243 pages
The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910
L.M. Montgomery · 448 pages
The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese Schoolgirl
Ma Yan, Pierre Haski · 176 pages
Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Jack Kerouac · 387 pages
Excerpts from his diaries chronicle a pivotal era in Kerouac's life, describing the creation of his first novel; his special friendships with Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady; and his own take on the events described in "On the Road."
Sarah Morgan: The Civil War Diary Of A Southern Woman
Sarah Morgan Dawson, Charles East · 672 pages
One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
Sam Keith, Richard L. Proenneke · 223 pages
To live in a pristine land unchanged by man; to roam the wilderness through which few other humans have passed; to choose an idyllic site, cut trees, and build a log cabin; to be a self-sufficient craftsman, making what is needed from materials available; to be not at odds with the world, but content with one's own thoughts and company: thousands have had such dreams, but Richard Proenneke lived t
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay · 278 pages
As soon as Adam Kay set foot on a hospital ward for the first time, he realized there's quite a lot they don't teach you at medical school ... His diaries from the NHS front line - scribbled in secret after long nights, endless days and missed weekends - are hilarious, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns. This Is Going to Hurt is everything you wanted to know about being a junior doctor, and mor
Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love
Courtney Love · 304 pages
All for the Union: The Civil War Diary & Letters of Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Robert Hunt Rhodes, Elisha Hunt Rhodes
Bring Me a Unicorn: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1922-1928
Anne Morrow Lindbergh · 290 pages
The Life and Diary of David Brainerd
David Brainerd · 376 pages
David Brainerd's life and thought influenced not only his own generation but have also exerted influence on the generations that have lived after him. His life was characterized by an unusual devotion to God and an agonizing examination of personal motives and aspirations. Unswerving in his purpose after being converted to Christ, Brainerd endured many disappointments and hardships in order to tak
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Mary Boykin Chesnut · 892 pages
The Further Adventures of a London Call Girl
Belle de Jour, Brooke Magnanti · 336 pages
The Making of Prince of Persia
Jordan Mechner · 336 pages