Mazel

10 best books like Mazel (Rebecca Goldstein): Danse Macabre, The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote, Truth and Beauty, The Valley of Horses, North and South, Foreign Bodies, Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within, Storyteller, Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America, The Devil's Bed

Danse Macabre

Author

Stephen King

Before he gave us the “one of a kind classic” (The Wall Street Journal) memoir On Writing, Stephen King wrote a nonfiction masterpiece in Danse Macabre, “one of the best books on American popular culture” (Philadelphia Inquirer).

From the author of dozens of #1 New York Times bestsellers...

The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote

Author	Elaine F. Weiss
ISBN	0525429727

The nail-biting climax of one of the greatest political victories in American history: the down and dirty campaign to get the last state to ratify the 19th amendment, granting women the right to vote.

"Anyone interested in the history of our country's ongoing fight to put its founding values...

Truth and Beauty

Author	Ann Patchett
ISBN	0060572159

Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, began a friendship that would be as defining to both of their lives as their work. In Grealy’s critically acclaimed memoir Autobiography of a Face, she wrote about losing part of her jaw...

The Valley of Horses

Author	Jean M. Auel
ISBN	0553381660

This unforgettable odyssey into the distant past carries us back to the awesome mysteries of the exotic, primeval world of The Clan of the Cave Bear, and to Ayla, now grown into a beautiful and courageous young woman.

Cruelly cast out by the new leader of the ancient Clan that adopted her as a child,...

North and South

Author	John Jakes
ISBN	0451200810

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After being trolled three times yesterday for not only reading things wrong, but also for wasting my Goodreads space and apparently everyone’s time creating picturebooks full of “stupid” and “uninformative”...

Foreign Bodies

Author	Cynthia Ozick
ISBN	0547435576

Cynthia Ozick is one of America's literary treasures. For her sixth novel, she set herself a brilliant challenge: to retell the story of Henry James's The Ambassadors—the work he considered his best—but as a photographic negative, that is the plot is the same, the meaning is reversed. At the core...

Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within

Author	Dennis Palumbo
ISBN	0471382663

"Dennis Palumbo has great insight into a writer s psyche.... Every writer should have a shrink or this book. The book is cheaper."
--Gary Shandling, actor, comic, and writer "wise, compassionate, and funny..."
--Aram Saroyan, poet and novelist

"Dennis Palumbo provides a sense...

Storyteller

Author	Amy Thomson
ISBN	0441012566

On the planet of Thalassa, history is passed on from generation to generation, village to village by Storytellers. Crowds gather in the public marketplace to listen, paying them with coins, with food, with lodging, whatever they can offer.

For a woman who calls herself Teller, storytelling...

Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back Row America

Author	Chris Arnade
ISBN	0525534733

Widely acclaimed photographer and writer Chris Arnade shines new light on America's poor, drug-addicted, and forgotten--both urban and rural, blue state and red state--and indicts the elitists who've left them behind.

Like Jacob Riis in the 1890s, Walker Evans in the 1930s, or Michael...

The Devil's Bed

Author	William Kent Krueger
ISBN	0743445856

From the creator of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Cork O'Connor mystery series comes a haunting, atmospheric, conspiracy thriller.

When President Clay Dixon's father-in-law—a former vice president—is injured in a farming accident, First Lady Kate Dixon returns to Minnesota...

Can You Ever Forgive Me?: Memoirs of a Literary Forger

Author	Lee Israel
ISBN	1416588671

Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy—Lee Israel’s hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary notables as Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Noel Coward, and many...