John Henry Days

5 best books like John Henry Days (Colson Whitehead): The Topeka School, Orange World and Other Stories, A Door in the Earth, Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping, The Parade

The Topeka School

Author	Ben Lerner
ISBN	0374277788

From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression, and the conditions that have given rise to the trolls and tyrants of the new right

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Orange World and Other Stories

Author	Karen Russell
ISBN	1984892215

From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases Karen Russell's extraordinary, irresistible gifts of language and imagination.

Karen Russell's...

A Door in the Earth

Author	Amy Waldman
ISBN	0316451576

For readers of Cutting for Stone and The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a "breathtaking and achingly nuanced" (Kirkus, starred review) new novel from the author of the national bestseller The Submission about the journey of a young Afghan-American woman trapped between her ideals and the complicated...

Under the Stars: How America Fell in Love with Camping

Author	Dan White
ISBN	1627791957

An irreverent history of American camping

From the Sierras to the Adirondacks and the Everglades, Dan White travels the nation to experience firsthand—and sometimes face first—how the American wilderness transformed from the devil’s playground into a source of adventure, relaxation,...

The Parade

Author	Dave Eggers
ISBN	0735277524

From a beloved author, a spare, powerful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country.

Four and Nine are partners, working for the same company, sent without passports to a nation recovering...