A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg

5 best books like A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg (Tim Cahill): All I Asking for Is My Body, The Mabinogion, In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon, The Commitments, An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

All I Asking for Is My Body

Author	Milton Murayama
ISBN	0824811720

First and foremost, I must state up front that this work is a novella length work, clocking in at approximately 100 pages. But don't let that dissuade you as Milton Murayama packs more into those 100 pages than most novels manage to do in 300+ pages.

This is an outstanding work, capturing so many...

The Mabinogion

Author	Anonymous
ISBN	0140443223

The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn) is a collection of 11 prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs and early medieval historical traditions. While some details may hark back...

In Trouble Again: A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon

Author	Redmond O'Hanlon
ISBN	0679727140

A mixture of minute, old-fashioned naturalistic observation of plants, mammals, and especially birds in the Amazonian rain forest, and the vicissitudes of traveling with a motley crew of locals along with O'Hanlon's alcoholic English friend Simon, who comes along for a kind of comic counterpoint...

The Commitments

Author	Roddy Doyle
ISBN	0749391685

I was going to attempt to write this review in the working class Dublin slang that Roddy Doyle’s colourful characters use, but, ya know, Jaysis, I’d come o’ looking like a fuckin’ eejit.

I’m one of the few people on the planet who’s never seen the Alan Parker movie, and when I was in...

An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System: A Tale in Four Lives

Author

Matt Richtel

A magnificently reported and soulfully crafted exploration of the human immune system–the key to health and wellness, life and death. An epic, first-of-its-kind book, entwining leading-edge scientific discovery with the intimate stories of four individual lives, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning...