The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere

9 best books like The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere (Debra Marquart): Dear Committee Members, The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion, The Cottingley Secret, Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It, Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head, The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life, What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite, Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Dear Committee Members

Author	Julie Schumacher
ISBN	0385538138

Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary."

Jason Fitger is a beleaguered professor of creative writing and literature at Payne University, a small and not very distinguished liberal arts college in the midwest. His department is facing draconian cuts and squalid quarters,...

The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America

Author	Tommy Tomlinson
ISBN	1501111612

The government definition of obesity is a body mass index of 30 or more. My BMI is 60.7. My shirts are size XXXXXXL, which the big-and-tall stores shorten to 6X. I’m 6-foot-1, or 73 inches tall. My waist is 60 inches around. I’m nearly a sphere.

Those are the numbers. This is how it feels…

So...

Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

Author	Gregory Boyle
ISBN	1439153027

Father Gregory Boyle’s sparkling parables about kinship and the sacredness of life are drawn from twenty years working with gangs in LA.

How do you fight despair and learn to meet the world with a loving heart? How do you overcome shame? Stay faithful in spite of failure? No matter where people...

The Cottingley Secret

Author

Hazel Gaynor

The author of The Girl Who Came Home turns the clock back one hundred years to a time when two young girls from Cottingley, Yorkshire, convinced the world that they had done the impossible and photographed fairies in their garden. Now, in her newest novel, international bestseller Hazel Gaynor reimagines...

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It

Author	Gary Taubes
ISBN	0307272702

An eye-opening, myth-shattering examination of what makes us fat, from acclaimed science writer Gary Taubes.

In his New York Times best seller, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Taubes argued that our diet’s overemphasis on certain kinds of carbohydrates—not fats and not simply excess...

Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My Head

Author	Jen Larsen
ISBN	1580054463

The brutally honest, surprisingly hilarious story of one woman's journey from one extreme of the weight spectrum to the other, and of the unexpected emotional chaos it created.

Jen Larsen always thought that if she could only lose some weight, she would be unstoppable. So when diet after diet...

The Hoarder in You: How to Live a Happier, Healthier, Uncluttered Life

Author	Robin Zasio
ISBN	1609611314

We all have treasured possessions—a favorite pair of shoes, a much-beloved chair, an ever-expanding record collection. But sometimes, this emotional attachment to our belongings can spiral out of control and culminate into a condition called compulsive hoarding. From hobbyists and collectors...

What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite

Author	David DiSalvo
ISBN	1616144831

This book reveals a remarkable paradox: what your brain wants is frequently not what your brain needs. In fact, much of what makes our brains "happy" leads to errors, biases, and distortions, which make getting out of our own way extremely difficult.

Author David DiSalvo presents evidence...

Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family

Author	Garrard Conley
ISBN	0735213461

A beautiful, raw and compassionate memoir about identity, love and understanding.
 
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality.
 
When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old...