The Delighted States
10 best books like The Delighted States (Adam Thirlwell): The Feminine Mystique, I Capture the Castle, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, O Pioneers!, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, How To Be Happy, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Aurora, Infomocracy, Mothering Sunday
| Author | Betty Friedan |
| ISBN | 0393346781 |
Landmark, groundbreaking, classic—these adjectives barely do justice to the pioneering vision and lasting impact of The Feminine Mystique. Published in 1963, it gave a pitch-perfect description of “the problem that has no name”: the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermined...
| Author | Dodie Smith |
| ISBN | 0312181108 |
Through six turbulent months of 1934, 17-year-old Cassandra Mortmain keeps a journal, filling three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries about her home, a ruined Suffolk castle, and her eccentric and penniless family. By the time the last diary shuts, there have been great changes in...
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941228 |
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
| Author | Willa Cather |
| ISBN | 0679743626 |
O Pioneers! (1913) was Willa Cather's first great novel, and to many it remains her unchallenged masterpiece. No other work of fiction so faithfully conveys both the sharp physical realities and the mythic sweep of the transformation of the American frontier—and the transformation of the people...
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941414 |
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's literary and philosophical personae. These essays explore and illuminate the roots of Lorde's intellectual development and her deep-seated and longstanding concerns about ways of increasing empowerment...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1606997408 |
Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow,...
The Yiddish Policemen's Union
| Author | Michael Chabon |
| ISBN | 0007149824 |
For sixty years, Jewish refugees and their descendants have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven created in the wake of revelations of the Holocaust and the shocking 1948 collapse of the fledgling state of Israel. Proud, grateful, and longing to be American, the Jews...
| Author | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| ISBN | 0316098108 |
Probably I read it wrong.
I don’t know how else to explain my reaction to a book so many enjoy. I was looking forward to some space-faring sci-fi: I recently read Dune, and with plenty of news about The Expanse, the sci-fi series based on Leviathan Wakes, crossing my feed, I’ve been feeling...
| Author | Malka Ann Older |
| ISBN | 0765385155 |
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since Information, a powerful search engine monopoly, pioneered the switch from warring nation-states to global micro-democracy. The corporate coalition party Heritage has won the last two elections. With another election on the horizon, the Supermajority...
| Author | Graham Swift |
| ISBN | 1101947527 |
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life.
Twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild has worked as a maid at an English country house since she was sixteen. For almost all of those years...
