If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir

10 best books like If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir (Jessica Hendry Nelson): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures, Mongrels, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide, Sacred Heart, Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House, All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

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...

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

Author	Lori Gottlieb
ISBN	1328662055

From a New York Times best-selling author, psychotherapist, and national advice columnist, a hilarious, thought-provoking, and surprising new book that takes us behind the scenes of a therapist's world--where her patients are looking for answers (and so is she).

One day, Lori Gottlieb...

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

Author	Mary Laura Philpott
ISBN	1982102802

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor.” —Elisabeth Egan, The...

American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures

Author

America Ferrera

From award-winning actress and political activist America Ferrera comes a vibrant and varied collection of first-person accounts from prominent figures about the experience of growing up between cultures.

America Ferrera has always felt wholly American, and yet, her identity is inextricably...

Mongrels

Author	Stephen Graham Jones
ISBN	0062412698

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on the fringes of society and struggles to survive in a hostile world that shuns and fears them.

He was born an outsider, like the rest of his family. Poor yet resilient, he lives in the shadows with...

The Lager Queen of Minnesota

Author	J. Ryan Stradal
ISBN	0399563059

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.

Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home,...

Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide

Author	Isabel Quintero
ISBN	1947440004

Graciela Iturbide was born in México City in 1942, the oldest of 13 children. When tragedy struck Iturbide as a young mother, she turned to photography for solace and understanding. From then on Iturbide embarked on a photographic journey that has taken her throughout her native México, from the...

Sacred Heart

Author	Liz Suburbia
ISBN	1606998412

(Between 3 and 4 stars.)

Spoiler alert! This review reveals things that happen in the book.

Though "revealing" things in a review of this book is unlikely to diminish the pleasure of reading it.

Sometimes I like to read reviews before reading a book and I doubt that would have...

Fantastic Women: 18 Tales of the Surreal and the Sublime from Tin House

Author	Rob Spillman
ISBN	1935639102

Fantastic Women comprises eighteen stories by some of the most exciting contemporary women writers in the United States. The daughters of Franz Kafka and Mary Shelley, the Brothers Grimm, and Angela Carter, these inventive, insightful authors steep their narratives in a heady potion of surrealism...

All That You Leave Behind: A Memoir

Author	Erin Lee Carr
ISBN	0399179712

An acclaimed documentary filmmaker comes to terms with her larger-than-life father, the late New York Times journalist David Carr, in this fierce memoir of love, addiction, and family.

Dad: What will set you apart is not talent, but will and a certain kind of humility. A willingness...

Anonymous

Author

Uzodinma Iweala

Welcome back to America! For a man trapped in the Homeland Security machine, passing through customs becomes a nightmarish odyssey in this story by the author of Beasts of No Nation.

He’s a well-traveled consultant arriving home at a metropolitan airport. He’s also become accustomed...

Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet

Author	John Bradshaw
ISBN	0465031013

Cats have been popular household pets for thousands of years, and their numbers only continue to rise. Today there are three cats for every dog on the planet, and yet cats remain more mysterious, even to their most adoring owners. Unlike dogs, cats evolved as solitary hunters, and, while many have learned...

Man-Eaters, Vol. 2

Author	Chelsea Cain
ISBN	1534313095

Twelve-year-old, Maude, has a case of puberty-induced pantherism, a missing friend, a detective dad who thinks she may be a killer, a mom with a big secret, a unicorn hiding in her bedroom, and a plan to overthrow the patriarchy.

From the creative team that brought you the groundbreaking and...