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10 best books like Continent (Jim Crace): Elric of Melniboné, Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination, The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories, The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, About Looking, Death in Summer, Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization, Krishnamurtis Notebook, Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

Elric of Melniboné

Author	Michael Moorcock
ISBN	0441203981

It is the colour of a bleached skull, his flesh; and the long hair that flows below his shoulders is milk-white. From the tapering, beautiful head stare two slanting eyes, crimson and moody....He is Elric, Emperor of Melnibone, cursed with a keen and cynical intelligence, schooled in the art of sorcery...

Japanese Tales of Mystery & Imagination

Author	Edogawa Rampo
ISBN	0804803196

Edogowa Rampo--just say his pen name quickly three times to discover how much he loved Edgar Allen Poe--is considered the first and foremost writer of Japanese mystery fiction. He is also much more.

His stories, structured as popular "entertainments," are designed to convey all the...

The Death of Ivan Ilych And Other Stories

Author	Leo Tolstoy
ISBN	0451528808

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook

Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest...

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge

Author	Carlos Castaneda
ISBN	0671227424

You may find this book has a lot of chaff on how they prepare peyote and other drugs, mundane descriptions in diary... yet when you less expect it, they hit you with a boulder of wisdom that leaves you freezed.

There is ONE core idea in the book that makes the price tag disappear. You cannot pay for...

The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Majjhima Nikaya

Author

Bhikkhu Bodhi

This book offers a complete translation of the Majjhima Nikaya, or Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, one of the major collections of texts in the Pali Canon, the authorized scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. This collection--among the oldest records of the historical Buddha's original teachings--consists...

About Looking

Author	John Berger
ISBN	0679736557

As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see....

Death in Summer

Author	William Trevor
ISBN	0140287825

A New York Times Bestseller and Notable Book
From the winner of the 1999 David Cohen British Literature Prize comes an unforgettably chilling novel, written with the compassion and artistry that define Trevor's fiction.
There were three deaths that summer. The first was Letitia's, sudden...

Satipaṭṭhāna: The Direct Path to Realization

Author	Anālayo
ISBN	1899579540

This book helps to fill what has long been a glaring gap in the scholarship on Early Buddhism, offering us a detailed textual study of the Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, the foundational Buddhist discourse on meditation practice.

With painstaking thoroughness, Ven. Anālayo marshals the suttas...

Krishnamurtis Notebook

Author	Jiddu Krishnamurti
ISBN	1888004630

Krishnamurtis notebook is for me like a constant companion, even i have understand that live has no permanency, psychologicaly.
The notebook has its place now on my bedside table, but i pick it up too at daylight from time to time.
Over all the 40 years i read krishnamurtis writings, watched...

Emptiness: A Practical Guide for Meditators

Author	Guy Armstrong
ISBN	1614293635

If everything is empty, then what ceases in Nirvana and is born in rebirth? How can you live in the world without feeling trapped by it? Guy Armstrong tackles these questions and more in this richly informed, practical guide to emptiness for the meditator.

It may seem odd for emptiness to...