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The Best American Essays of the Century

10 best books like The Best American Essays of the Century (Joyce Carol Oates): Paris by the Book, Destiny, Rewritten, The 13 Clocks, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015, The Complete Guide to the Bible, The Citadel, When Sorry Isn't Enough: Making Things Right with Those You Love

Paris by the Book
AuthorLiam Callanan
ISBN1101986271
A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Heading off in search of its author, a mother and her daughters find themselves in France, rescuing a failing bookstore and drawing closer to unexpected truths.

Once a week, I chase men who are not...
Destiny, Rewritten
AuthorKathryn Fitzmaurice
ISBN0061625019
This sweet contemporary story about poetry, family, and determining your own destiny is perfect for fans of books by Wendy Mass, Joan Bauer, Sharon Creech, and Rebecca Stead.

Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has never met her father, so when a book of poetry with his name in it goes missing,...
The 13 Clocks
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN0440405823
How can anyone describe this book? It isn't a parable, a fairy story, or a poem, but rather a mixture of all three. It is beautiful and it is comic. It is philosophical and it is cheery. What we suppose we are trying fumblingly to say is, in a word, that it is Thurber.

There are only a few reasons why...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2013
AuthorSiddhartha Mukherjee
ISBN0544003438
The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2013.

This collection of twenty-seven articles was edited by Siddhartha Mukherjee, a scientist and author of the runaway bestseller “The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. He did a great job of choosing which ones to include here.

There...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007
AuthorRichard Preston
ISBN0618722319
"Science is about not knowing and wanting badly to know. Science is about flawed and complicated human beings trying to use whatever tools they've got, along with their minds, to see something strange and new. In that sense, writing about science is just another way of writing about the human condition."...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008
AuthorJerome Groopman
ISBN0618834478
“The articles . . . draw the reader more tightly into the web of the world. They forge links in unexpected ways. They connect us to nature and to each other, and those connections nourish the intellect and uplift the spirit.”—Jerome Groopman, M.D., editor

This year’s Best American...
The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015
AuthorRebecca Skloot
The Best American Series
 
The next edition in a series praised as “undeniably exquisite” (Maria Popova), The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 includes work from both award-winning writers and up-and-coming voices in the field. From Brooke Jarvis on deep-ocean mining...
The Complete Guide to the Bible
AuthorStephen M. Miller
ISBN1597893749
Reliable, Interesting and Jargon-Free
For anyone who who wants to better understand the Bible

Interesting to read and easy to consult, The Complete Guide to the Bible is a reliable, jargon-free handbook for average people who want to better understand the entire Bible. Captivating...
The Citadel
AuthorA.J. Cronin
ISBN0316161837
"Cronin's distinguished achievement....No one could have written as fine, honest, and moving a study of a young doctor as The Citadel without possessing great literary taste and skill." --The Atlantic Monthly
A groundbreaking novel of its time and a National Book Award winner.
The Citadel...
When Sorry Isn't Enough: Making Things Right with Those You Love
AuthorGary Chapman
ISBN0802407048
“I said I was sorry!”

Even in the best of relationships, all of us make mistakes. We do and say things we later regret and hurt the people we love most. So we need to make things right. But simply saying you’re sorry is usually not enough.

In this book, #1 New York Times bestselling...
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