The Incantations of Daniel Johnston

10 best books like The Incantations of Daniel Johnston (Scott McClanahan): The Book of X, Heating Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion, The Emigrants, New Seeds of Contemplation, The Plains, Happy All the Time, Woke: A Guide to Social Justice, How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

The Book of X

Author	Sarah Rose Etter
ISBN	1937512819

There is a quarry made of meat, marbled rich with fat. There is a family who lives at the meat quarry’s edge. There is a girl who lives with a knotted body, as does her mother, as does her mother’s mother. There is a girl who yearns to be seen with kind eyes, to be touched with soft hands, to be loved by an open...

Heating Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs

Author	Beth Ann Fennelly
ISBN	0393356485

The 52 micro-memoirs in genre-defying Heating Cooling offer bright glimpses into a richly lived life, combining the compression of poetry with the truth-telling of nonfiction into one heartfelt, celebratory book. Ranging from childhood recollections to quirky cultural observations, these...

God Is Red: A Native View of Religion

Author	Vine Deloria Jr.
ISBN	1555914985

First published in 1972, Vine Deloria Jr.'s God Is Red remains the seminal work on Native religious views, asking new questions about our species and our ultimate fate. Celebrating three decades in publication with a special 30th-anniversary edition, this classic work reminds us to learn "that we...

The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion

Author	Gerard Way
ISBN	1506711421

With a new Netflix series, the best-selling graphic novels return--with the original creators!

Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007...

The Emigrants

Author	W.G. Sebald
ISBN	0099448882

At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.

Written with...

New Seeds of Contemplation

Author	Thomas Merton
ISBN	0811217248

New Seeds of Contemplation is one of Thomas Merton's most widely read and best-loved books. Christians and non-Christians alike have joined in praising it as a notable successor in the meditative tradition of St. John of the Cross, The Cloud of Unknowing, and the medieval mystics, while others have...

The Plains

Author	Gerald Murnane
ISBN	1930974280

'Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.'--Teju Cole

'A careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.'--Paris Review

'A distinguished, distinctive, unforgettable novel.'--Shirley Hazzard

'Deeply mysterious yet grounded in familiar, everyday...

Happy All the Time

Author	Laurie Colwin
ISBN	0060955325

Guido and Vincent are childhood best friends—third cousins, really—living in Cambridge and dreaming about their futures. Guido plans to write poetry while Vincent feels confident he will win a Nobel prize for physics. When Guido spots Holly while exiting a museum, he can immediately sense that...

Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

Author	Titania McGrath
ISBN	1472130847

In Woke, Titania McGrath demonstrates how everybody can play their part in the pursuit of social justice. As a millennial icon on the forefront of online activism, Titania is uniquely placed to guide her readers through the often bewildering array of terminology and concepts that constitute twenty-first-century...

How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

Author	Kate Mulgrew
ISBN	0062846817

In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parents, the star of Orange Is the New Black and bestselling author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of loss, betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter’s love for her parents.

They...