Baby Driver: A Story About Myself

9 best books like Baby Driver: A Story About Myself (Jan Kerouac): Lost Children Archive, Planetfall, The Wander Society, Bluets, The Imaginary World of..., Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, Modern Manners: Tools to Take You to the Top, My name is...Vincent Van Gogh (My Name Is...), Ice Cream Man, Vol. 3: Hopscotch Melange

Lost Children Archive

Author	Valeria Luiselli
ISBN	0525520619

From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a family whose road trip across America collides with an immigration crisis at the southwestern border--an indelible journey told with breathtaking imagery, spare lyricism, and profound humanity.

A...

Planetfall

Author

Emma Newman

From the award-nominated author Emma Newman, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity’s future might be its undoing…

Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi’s vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place...

The Wander Society

Author	Keri Smith
ISBN	0143108360

wan·der
verb  \ˈwän-dər\
to walk/explore/amble in an unplanned or aimless way with a complete openness to the unknown
 
Several years ago when Keri Smith, bestselling author of Wreck This Journal, discovered cryptic handwritten notations in a worn copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves...

Bluets

Author	Maggie Nelson
ISBN	1933517409

Suppose I were to begin by saying that I had fallen in love with a color...

A lyrical, philosophical, and often explicit exploration of personal suffering and the limitations of vision and love, as refracted through the color blue. With Bluets, Maggie Nelson has entered the pantheon of brilliant...

The Imaginary World of...

Author	Keri Smith
ISBN	0399165258

What kind of world would you like to inhabit?

To imagine something different, better, or more interesting is to push the existing world into a state of change. Some of the greatest revolutionary acts of our time came to be because someone had the courage to imagine something new.

In...

Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku

Author	William J. Higginson
ISBN	4770014309

"The Haiku Handbook" is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. It presents haiku poets writing in English, Spanish, French, German, and five other languages on an equal footing with Japanese poets. Not only are the four great Japanese masters of the haiku...

Modern Manners: Tools to Take You to the Top

Author	Dorothea Johnson
ISBN	0770434118

From the world-renowned etiquette expert and her granddaughter, Liv Tyler, an elegant guide to 21st-century manners for professionals who want to be confident and successful in the business and social arenas. 

Developing good manners is an important investment in your future. They allow...

My name is...Vincent Van Gogh (My Name Is...)

Author	Carme Martin
ISBN	0764133942

Vincent van Gogh was born in the Netherlands, but spent most of his life as an artist in Paris and the southern French town of Arles. His art, with its unusually vibrant colors and fantastic shapes, found very little acceptance during his lifetime, and he was supported in large part by his more practical...

Ice Cream Man, Vol. 3: Hopscotch Melange

Author	W. Maxwell Prince
ISBN	1534312269

Ice Cream Pants begins its slide from a fairly mediocre series to a crappy one with Volume 3: Hopscotch Melange. None of its four stories were all that.

There’s a cliched Latin soap opera-esque romance story about a couple of star-crossed lovers in 1919 Mexico where the woman is betrothed...