Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise

5 best books like Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise (David Rothenberg): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Old Masters: A Comedy, Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid, A Whale for the Killing

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Author	Olga Tokarczuk
ISBN	0525541330

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her...

The Body: A Guide for Occupants

Author	Bill Bryson
ISBN	0385539304

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...

Old Masters: A Comedy

Author	Thomas Bernhard
ISBN	0226043916

Old Masters (subtitled A Comedy) is a novel by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, which was first published in 1985. It tells of the life and opinions of Reger, a 'musical philosopher', through the voice of his acquaintance Atzbacher, a 'private academic'.
The book is set in Vienna on one day around...

Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

Author	Wendy Williams
ISBN	0810984652

Kraken is the traditional name for gigantic sea monsters, and this book introduces one of the most charismatic, enigmatic, and curious inhabitants of the sea: the squid. The pages take the reader on a wild narrative ride through the world of squid science and adventure, along the way addressing some...

A Whale for the Killing

Author	Farley Mowat
ISBN	0811731863

In the 1960s, Farley Mowat was living in the tiny fishing community of Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland. When an 80-ton fin whale became trapped in a nearby saltwater lagoon, Mowat rejoiced: here was the first chance to study at close range one of the most magnificent animals in creation....