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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Road to San Giovanni
Italo Calvino · 112 pages
The Art of Eating
M.F.K. Fisher · 749 pages
This book is the essence of M.F.K. Fisher, whose wit and fulsome opinions on food and those who produce it, comment upon it, and consume it are as apt today as they were several decades ago, when she composed them. Why did she choose food and hunger, she was asked, and she replied, 'When I write about hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth, and the love of it . .
Berlin Childhood around 1900
Walter Benjamin · 192 pages
Berlin Childhood around 1900 remained unpublished during Walter Benjamin's lifetime. Now translated into English for the first time in book form, on the basis of the recently discovered final version that contains the author's own arrangement of a suite of luminous vignettes, it can be more widely appreciated as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century prose writing. This book is also one of B
The Narrow Door: A Memoir of Friendship
Paul Lisicky · 205 pages
In The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships, one with a woman novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The contours of these relationships shift constantly. Denise and Paul, stretched by the demands of their writing lives, drift apart, and Paul's romance begins to falter. And the world around them is frail: en
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson · 160 pages
Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author’s relationship with artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author’s account of falling in love with Dodge, as well as her journe
Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Ruskin Bond · 251 pages
Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
Rachel Cusk · 160 pages
In 2003, Rachel Cusk published A Life's Work, a provocative and often startlingly funny memoir about the cataclysm of motherhood. Widely acclaimed, the book started hundreds of arguments that continue to this day. Now, in her most personal and relevant book to date, Cusk explores divorce's tremendous impact on the lives of women. An unflinching chronicle of Cusk's own recent separation and the
Autumn
Karl Ove Knausgard · 224 pages
The first entry in a planned four-part autobiographical series presents sensory letters written to the author's unborn daughter that describe his childhood and daily life with his wife and older children in rural Sweden.
A Circle of Quiet
Madeleine L'Engle · 245 pages
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Terry Tempest Williams · 232 pages
In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams (beloved author of "Refuge") creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals .. and what it means to have a voice beyond a selfless existence informed by children and a husband.
No Name in the Street
James Baldwin · 197 pages
"This is James Baldwin's long-awaited statement on what has happened to America through the political and social agonies of her recent history".
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Thomas Lynch · 224 pages
"Every Year I Bury a Couple Hundred of My Townspeople." So opens the singular testimony of the poet Thomas Lynch. Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. In the conduct of these duties he has kept his eyes open, his ears tuned to the ind
The Faraway Nearby
Rebecca Solnit · 259 pages
A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family.
The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend
Sarah Manguso · 111 pages
Birds Art Life Death: A Field Guide to the Small and Significant
Kyo Maclear · 221 pages
A writer’s search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this meditation on creativity and life – a field guide to things small and significant. In 2012, Kyo Maclear met a musician with a passion for birds. Curious about what had prompted a young urban artist to suddenly embrace nature she decided to follow him for a year to find out. Observing two artists through seasonal
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 155 pages
An Amazon Best Book of July 2015: Readers of his work in The Atlantic and elsewhere know Ta-Nehisi Coates for his thoughtful and influential writing on race in America. Written as a series of letters to his teenaged son, his new memoir, Between the World and Me, walks us through the course of his life, from the tough neighborhoods of Baltimore in his youth, to Howard University—which Coates dubs “
Gift from the Sea
Anne Morrow Lindbergh · 138 pages
From inside flap- "Anne Morrow Lindbergh's reflections on a woman's life were matured in active years of family living and stimulated by conversations with men and women who experience the same problems and feel the same need for assessing the true values of life. The setting of her book is the sea shore; the time, a brief vacation which had lifted her from the distractions of everyday exis
Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis
Lauren F. Winner · 272 pages
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes With Death
Maggie O'Farrell · 303 pages
An extraordinarily intimate memoir of the near death experiences that have made Maggie O'Farrell the woman and the writer she is today. A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. This is a memoir with a difference: seventeen encounters with
Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy
Mark Doty · 75 pages
Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf · 208 pages
Five essays spanning her writing career show the many sides of Virginia Woolf.
I Suck at Girls
Justin Halpern · 180 pages
Presents a humorous collection of stories about the author's relationships with the opposite sex told chronologically, from his first kiss to getting engaged.
My Reading Life
Pat Conroy · 331 pages
Bestselling author Pat Conroy acknowledges the books that have shaped him and celebrates the profound effect reading has had on his life.
The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History
Jonathan Franzen · 208 pages
The author describes growing up in a family of all boys in Webster Groves, Missouri, reflecting on such topics as the dynamics of a Christian youth fellowship, his role as the school prankster, his marriage, and the life lessons he has learned from birds.