Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores

10 best books like Read This!: Handpicked Favorites from America's Indie Bookstores (Hans Weyandt): Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog, Fire and Hemlock, Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader, Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered, Miss Julie and Other Plays, King Matt the First, Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran, Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad, Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are, Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog

Author	Dave Barry
ISBN	1501161172

In this “little gem” ( Washington Independent Review of Books), Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Barry learns how to age happily from his old but joyful dog, Lucy.

As Dave Barry turns seventy—not happily—he realizes that his dog,...

Fire and Hemlock

Author	Diana Wynne Jones
ISBN	0060298855

Polly has two sets of memories...

One is normal: school, home, friends. The other, stranger memories begin nine years ago, when she was ten and gate-crashed an odd funeral in the mansion near her grandmother's house. Polly's just beginning to recall the sometimes marvelous, sometimes frightening...

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

Author	Anne Fadiman
ISBN	0374527229

Anne Fadiman is—by her own admission—the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material...

Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered

Author

Austin Kleon

In his New York Times bestseller Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon showed readers how to unlock their creativity by “stealing” from the community of other movers and shakers. Now, in an even more forward-thinking and necessary book, he shows how to take that critical next step on a creative journey—getting...

Miss Julie and Other Plays

Author	August Strindberg
ISBN	0192833170

This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two finest achievements as a psychological realist, The Father and Miss Julie, to the three plays in which he redefined the possibilities of European drama following his return to the theatre in 1898, A...

King Matt the First

Author	Janusz Korczak
ISBN	1565124421

Janusz Korczak was a Polish physician and educator who wrote over twenty books--his fiction was in his time as well known as Peter Pan, and his nonfiction works bore passionate messages of child advocacy. During World War II, the Jewish orphanage he directed was relocated to the Warsaw ghetto. Although...

Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran

Author	Azadeh Moaveni
ISBN	1586483781

As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was...

Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad

Author	Austin Kleon
ISBN	1523506644

Keep Working. Keep Playing. Keep Creating.

In his previous books Steal Like an Artist and Show Your Work!, both New York Times bestsellers, Austin Kleon gave readers the keys to unlock their creativity and showed them how to become known. Now he offers his most inspiring work yet, with ten simple...

Art Before Breakfast: A Zillion Ways to be More Creative No Matter How Busy You Are

Author	Danny Gregory
ISBN	1452135479

Packed with the signature can-do attitude that makes beloved artist Danny Gregory a creativity guru to thousands across the globe, this unique guide serves up a hearty helping of inspiration. For aspiring artists who want to draw and paint but just can't seem to find time in the day, Gregory offers 5–...

Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

Author	Sarah Clarkson
ISBN	1496425804

When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle's delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?

If so, you may be on your way to being a book girl.

Books were always Sarah Clarkson's delight....