Oxygen

6 best books like Oxygen (Andrew Miller): Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, The Accidental, Felicia's Journey, Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen, A Man On the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AuthorOlga Tokarczuk
ISBN0525541330
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...
The Accidental
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN1400032180
Winner of the Whitbread Award for best novel and a finalist for the Man Booker Prize, The Accidental is the virtuoso new novel by the singularly gifted Ali Smith. Jonathan Safran Foer has called her writing “thrilling.” Jeanette Winterson has praised her for her “style, ideas, and punch.”...
AuthorWilliam Trevor
ISBN0140253602
Felicia is unmarried, pregnant, and penniless. She steals away from a small Irish town and drifts through the industrial English Midlands, searching for the boyfriend who left her. Instead she meets up with the fat, fiftyish, unfailingly reasonable Mr. Hilditch, who is looking for a new friend to...
Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
AuthorMary Norris
ISBN1324001275
The Comma Queen returns with a buoyant book about language, love, and the wine-dark sea.

In her New York Times bestseller Between You & Me, Mary Norris delighted readers with her irreverent tales of pencils and punctuation in The New Yorker’s celebrated copy department. In Greek to...
A Man On the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
AuthorAndrew Chaikin
ISBN0140272011
On the night of July 20, 1969, our world changed forever when two Americans, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, walked on the moon. Now the greatest event of the twentieth century is magnificently retold through the eyes and ears of the people who were there. Based on the interviews with twentythree moon...
AuthorNeil Ansell
ISBN1472247116
Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has spent his lifetime taking solitary ventures into the wild. For any readers of the author's previous book, Deep Country, Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways or William Atkins The Moor.

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