Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World

8 best books like Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World (Gillen D'Arcy Wood): Deaf Republic: Poems, The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England, The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison, How to Love a Country, Nightblind, Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool, The King Must Die

Deaf Republic: Poems

Author	Ilya Kaminsky
ISBN	1555978312

Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize
Finalist for the Forward Prize for Best Collection

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?

Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in a time of political...

The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, and (Getting) Happier

Author	Cathi Hanauer
ISBN	0062389513

More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing their ruminations from an older, stronger, and wiser perspective...

Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England

Author	William Cronon
ISBN	0809016346

The book that launched environmental history now updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...

The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison

Author	Maggie Smith
ISBN	1936797569

Delving into the depths of fairy tales to transform the daily into encounters with the marvelous but dangerous, Maggie Smith’s poems question whether the realms of imagination and story can possibly be safe. Even as her compressed stories are unfolding on a suburban cul de sac, they are deep in the...

How to Love a Country

Author	Richard Blanco
ISBN	0807025917

A new collection from the renowned inaugural poet exploring immigration, gun violence, racism, LGBTQ issues, and more, in accessible and emotive verses

As presidential inaugural poet, memoirist, public speaker, educator, and advocate, Richard Blanco has crisscrossed the nation inviting...

Nightblind

Author

Ragnar Jónasson

Siglufjörður: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible only via a small mountain tunnel. Ari Thór Arason: a local policeman, whose tumultuous past and uneasy relationships with the villagers continue to haunt him. The peace of this close-knit community...

Vanishing Fleece: Adventures in American Wool

Author	Clara Parkes
ISBN	1419735314

A fast-paced account of the year Clara Parkes spent transforming a 676-pound bale of fleece into saleable yarn, and the people and vanishing industry she discovered along the way 

Join Clara Parkes on a cross-country adventure and meet a cast of characters that includes the shepherds, dyers,...

The King Must Die

Author

Mary Renault

“Mary Renault is a shining light to both historical novelists and their readers. She does not pretend the past is like the present, or that the people of ancient Greece were just like us. She shows us their strangeness; discerning, sure-footed, challenging our values, piquing our curiosity,...