Islands, the Universe, Home
10 best books like Islands, the Universe, Home (Gretel Ehrlich): I'm Afraid of Men, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Monkey Wrench Gang, The Feral Detective, Brighty of the Grand Canyon, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, Pukka's Promise: The Quest for Longer-Lived Dogs, Sightlines, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
| Author | Vivek Shraya |
| ISBN | 0735235937 |
"Emotional and painful but also layered with humour, I'm Afraid of Men will widen your lens on gender and challenge you to do better. This challenge is a necessary one—one we must all take up. It is a gift to dive into Vivek's heart and mind."
—Rupi Kaur, bestselling author of The Sun and Her Flowers...
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| ISBN | 0072434171 |
An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch...
| Author | Edward Abbey |
| ISBN | 0061129763 |
Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have remarked that the book is more a comic book than a real novel, and it's true that reading this incendiary call to protect the American wilderness requires more than a little of the old willing suspension...
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0062859080 |
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer in the desert outside of Los Angeles. She's on a quest to find her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hears that Heist is preternaturally good at finding people who don't want to be found. A loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer,...
Brighty of the Grand Canyon
| Author | Marguerite Henry |
| ISBN | 0689845227 |
Long ago, a lone little burro roamed the high cliffs of the Grand Canyon and touched the hearts of all who knew him: a grizzled old miner, a big-game hunter, even President Teddy Roosevelt. Named Brighty by the prospector who befriended him, he remained a free spirit at heart. But when a ruthless claim-jumper...
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
| Author | Alexander Chee |
| ISBN | 1328764524 |
From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.
As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...
| Author | Ted Kerasote |
| ISBN | 1469258773 |
When Ted Kerasote was ready for a new dog after losing his beloved Merle — who died too soon, as all our dogs do — he knew that he would want to give his puppy Pukka the longest life possible. But how to do that? So much has changed in the way we feed, vaccinate, train, and live with our dogs from even a decade...
The outer world flew open like a door, and I wondered—what is it that we're just not seeing? In this greatly anticipated sequel to Findings, prize-winning poet and renowned nature writer Kathleen Jamie takes a fresh look at her native Scottish landscapes, before sailing north into iceberg-strewn...
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
| Author | Tony Horwitz |
| ISBN | 1101980303 |
The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape...
Riding the Elephant: A Memoir of Altercations, Humiliations, Hallucinations, and Observations
| Author | Craig Ferguson |
| ISBN | 0525533915 |
From the comedian, actor, and former host of The Late Late Show comes an irreverent, lyrical memoir in essays featuring his signature wit.
Craig Ferguson has defied the odds his entire life. He has failed when he should have succeeded and succeeded when he should have failed. The fact that he...
