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Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure

10 best books like Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure (Jon Katz): Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia, Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders, Wired, Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America, Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic, The Best Cat Ever, Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath, An Unfinished Marriage, Calum's Road, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage

Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia
AuthorMark Salzman
ISBN0679767789
From the author of Iron & Silk comes a charming and frequently uproarious account of an American adolescence in the age of Bruce Lee, Ozzy Osborne, and Kung Fu. As Salzman recalls coming of age with one foot in Connecticut and the other in China (he wanted to become a wandering Zen monk), he tells the...
Through the Door of Life: A Jewish Journey between Genders
AuthorJoy Ladin
ISBN0299287300
After years of teaching literature at Yeshiva University, Professor Jay Ladin made headlines around the world by returning to the Orthodox Jewish campus as a woman: Joy Ladin. In Through the Door of Life, Joy Ladin takes readers inside her transition as she changed genders and, in the process, created...
Wired
AuthorLiz Maverick
ISBN0505527243
If Maverick's fast-paced, genre-bounding novel is any indication, Dorchester's new imprint, Shomi—which aims to hook a younger generation of readers—should catch an audience quickly. Maverick grabs readers from page one, throwing together romance, science fiction and cyberpunk—a mash-up...
Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America
AuthorMel White
ISBN0452273811
Until Christmans Eve 1991, Mel White was regarded by the leaders of the religious right as one of their most talented and productive supporters. He penned the speeches of Ollie North. He was a ghostwriter for Jerry Falwell, worked with Jim Bakker, flew in Pat Robertson's private jet, walked sandy beaches...
Moonlight Sonata at the Mayo Clinic
AuthorNora Gallagher
ISBN0307592987
This taut yet lyrical memoir tells of the author’s experience with a baffling illness poised to take her sight, and gives a deeply felt meditation on vulnerability and on what it means to lose the faith you had and find something better.

One day at the end of 2009, during a routine eye exam that...
The Best Cat Ever
AuthorCleveland Amory
ISBN0316089788
This is the third and final book of Cleveland Amory's about his life with Polar Bear, a white cat with green eyes that he rescued as a young cat. I liked it almost as much as the original "The Cat Who Came for Christmas" My only comment is that is some repetition in it. My favorite parts were when Polar Bear came...
Chronicle of a Plague, Revisited: AIDS and Its Aftermath
AuthorAndrew Holleran
ISBN0786720395
Andrew Holleran’s Ground Zero, first published in 1988 and consisting of 23 Christopher Street essays from the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, was hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the best dispatches from the epidemic’s height.” Twenty years later, with HIV/AIDS long recognized...
An Unfinished Marriage
AuthorJoan Anderson
ISBN0767908716
In this moving sequel to her national bestseller A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson explores the challenges of rebuilding and renewing a marriage with her trademark candor, compassion, and insight.

With A Year by the Sea, Joan Anderson struck a chord in many tens of thousands of readers. Her brave...
Calum's Road
AuthorRoger Hutchinson
ISBN1841584479
Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967 reduced his responsibilities. ‘So what he decided to do,’ says his last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, ‘was to build...
Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven--A Pilgrimage
AuthorScott Cairns
ISBN0060843225
While walking on the beach with his Labrador, poet and literature professor Scott Cairns ran headlong into his midlife crisis. A fairly common experience among men nearing the age of fifty, midlife crises are usually manifested in the form of sports cars and younger women; not so for this Baptist turned...
A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from her Student
AuthorElizabeth Stone
ISBN1565123158
One morning, a box was delivered to Elizabeth Stone's door. It held ten years of personal diaries and a letter that began "Dear Elizabeth, You must be wondering why I left you my diaries in my will. After all, we have not seen each other in over twenty years . . ." What followed was a remarkable year in Elizabeth's...
Denial: My 25 Years Without a Soul
AuthorJonathan Rauch
My bias... I am a straight male that views homosexuality as a choice, and a bad one at that with clear undeniably poor outcomes for people who choose it.

That said, I have an open mind, and I read this to try to put myself in the shoes of people on the other side of the ideological divide. This book provided...
Visions and Revisions: Coming of Age in the Age of AIDS
AuthorDale Peck
ISBN1616954418
Novelist and critic Dale Peck's latest work, part memoir, part extended essay, is a foray into what the author calls 'the second half of the first half of the AIDS epidemic'. Reminiscent of Joan Didion's The White Album and Kurt Vonnegut's Palm Sunday, Visions and Revisions has been assembled from over...
Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family--a Test of Will and Faith in World War I
AuthorLouisa Thomas
It is not surprising that the World War I experiences of Norman Thomas (1884-1968) form a major part of Louisa Thomas' new book: This long-lived peace advocate was, after all, the author's great grandfather and a six-time Socialist presidential candidate. Conscience does pay due attention to her...
The Scent of God: A Memoir
AuthorBeryl Singleton Bissell
ISBN1582433488

5 – I teared up and cried numerous times – stars. I experienced a rollercoaster of emotions. This book crept up on me and enveloped me.

I don’t even know where to start. Before I even start saying anything, I would like to say this is not a book about religion or God or anything preachy....
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir
AuthorKevin Jennings
ISBN0807071463
Growing up poor in the South, Kevin Jennings learned a lot of things, especially about how to be a real man. When his father, a fundamentalist preacher, dropped dead at his son's eighth birthday party, Kevin already knew he wasn't supposed to cry.

He also knew there was no salvation for homosexuals,...
The Salon
AuthorNick Bertozzi
ISBN0312354851
In 1907 Paris, when someone starts tearing the heads off avant-garde painters, Gertrude Stein and her brother, Leo, realize that they might be next on the killer's list. Enlisting the help of their closest friends and colleagues, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Erik Satie, Alice B. Toklas, and Guillaume...
Out of Harm's Way
AuthorTerri Crisp
ISBN0671522787
This is the one book that got me involved in animal rescue back in 1998 when I first read it. Written after the devastation of Hurricane Andrew in south Florida, it highlights the hard work and total frustration that animal rescue workers endure to try to save even one terrified animal left behind in the...
The Ring of Bright Water Trilogy
AuthorGavin Maxwell
ISBN0140290494
Fifty years ago Gavin Maxwell went to live in an abandoned house on a shingle beach on the west coast of Scotland. A haven for wildlife - he named his home Camusfearna and settled there with the otters Mij, Edal and Teko.

Ring of Bright Water chronicles Gavin Maxwell's first ten years with the otters...
Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned
AuthorCathy Scott
ISBN0470228512
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many animals had to fend for themselves because their owners lost them or were unable to care for them. In Pawprints of Katrina: Pets Saved and Lessons Learned, Cathy Scott documents her experience working with the Best Friends Animal Society triage center to...
That's Mr. Faggot to You: Further Trials from My Queer Life
AuthorMichael Thomas Ford
ISBN1555834965
In That's Mr. Faggot to You, Michael Thomas Ford continues his exploration of contemporary gay life. He does not shy away from personal revelations--he recalls his own traumatic high school experiences but recognizes that, years later, he's happier and, more importantly, a great deal more attractive...
Do-Over!: In Which a Forty-Eight-Year-Old Father of Three Returns to Kindergarten, Summer Camp, the Prom, and Other Embarrassments
AuthorRobin Hemley
ISBN0316020605
Robin Hemley's childhood made a wedgie of his memory, leaving him sore and embarrassed for over forty years. He was the most pitiful kindergartner, the least spirited summer camper, and dateless for prom. In fact, there's nary an event from his youth that couldn't use improvement. If only he could do...
Khan: A Maine Coon
AuthorMarie J.S. Phillips
ISBN1458324664
Semi-fictional biography of Khan, a real Maine Coon. Abandoned and left at a local shelter, a Maine Coon kitten awaits an uncertain fate. During his stay, Khan befriends a wise old tomcat. Four days later, to Khan's horror, the shelter workers take his friend away to the Big Sleep, leaving Khan scared...
Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey
AuthorAriel Dorfman
In this remarkable memoir, Dorfman describes an extraordinary life, torn between the United States, South America, and his Jewish heritage, between English and Spanish, between revolution and repression. Interwoven with the story of how Dorfman switched languages and countries--not once, but...
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