Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth

9 best books like Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth (Mark Hertsgaard): Time Out of Joint, Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life, Putting Makeup on Dead People, Comedy Sex God, Hole in the Sky: A Memoir, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life, Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore, The Los Angeles Diaries: A Memoir, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over

Time Out of Joint

Author

Philip K. Dick

Time Out of Joint is Philip K. Dick’s classic depiction of the disorienting disparity between the world as we think it is and the world as it actually is. The year is 1998, although Ragle Gumm doesn’t know that. He thinks it’s 1959. He also thinks that he served in World War II, that he lives in a quiet...

Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life

Author	Louise Aronson
ISBN	1620405466

As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life.

For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means...

Putting Makeup on Dead People

Author	Jen Violi
ISBN	1423134818

In the spring of her senior year, Donna Parisi finds new life in an unexpected place: a coffin.

Since her father's death four years ago, Donna has gone through the motions of living: her friendships are empty, she's clueless about what to do after high school graduation, and her grief keeps her...

Comedy Sex God

Author	Pete Holmes
ISBN	0062803999

Part autobiography, part philosophical inquiry, and part spiritual quest, Comedy Sex God is a hilarious, profound, and enlightening romp around the fertile mind of stand-up stand-out, podcast king, and HBO superstar Pete Holmes.

Pete Holmes is a sold-out-every-night stand-up comedian...

Hole in the Sky: A Memoir

Author	William Kittredge
ISBN	0679740066

William Kittredge's stunning memoir is at once autobiography, a family chronicle, and a Westerner's settling of accounts with the land he grew up in. This is the story of a grandfather whose single-minded hunger for property won him a ranch the size of Delaware but estranged him from his family; of a...

A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life

Author	Parker J. Palmer
ISBN	0787971006

In A Hidden Wholeness, Parker Palmer reveals the same compassionate intelligence and informed heart that shaped his best-selling books Let Your Life Speak and The Courage to Teach. Here he speaks to our yearning to live undivided lives--lives that are congruent with our inner truth--in a world filled...

Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore

Author	Elizabeth Rush
ISBN	1571313672

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL OUTDOOR BOOK AWARD
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOP TEN BOOK OF 2018
A GUARDIAN, NPR's SCIENCE FRIDAY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, AND LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2018

Hailed as "deeply felt" (New York Times), "a revelation" (Pacific Standard), and "the book on climate change...

The Los Angeles Diaries: A Memoir

Author	James Brown
ISBN	0060521511

A wrenching chronicle of loss and
reaffirmation from novelist James Brown Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce and economic ruin, James Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises and despair. In The Los Angeles Diaries he reveals his...

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over

Author	Starhawk
ISBN	0062515160

My older sister, Heather, started practicing Wicca while she was in high school. One of the books I always remember seeing on her shelf with Pagan books was the Pagan Book of Living and Dying. It looked thick and meaty. Heather's copy was well read with dog eared pages, highlights, and notes in the margin....