The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment
10 best books like The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment (Thaddeus Golas): Mutant Message Down Under, May I Bring a Friend?, The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove, I Am Enough, Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku, The Iron Dragon's Daughter, The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, Touch the Earth, It Could Always Be Worse: A Yiddish Folk Tale
Mutant Message Down Under
| Author | Marlo Morgan |
| ISBN | 0060723513 |
Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all.
Summoned by a remote...
| Author | Beatrice Schenk de Regniers |
| ISBN | 0689713533 |
An imaginative boy brings a surprising array of friends to dine at the palace in this Caldecott Medal–winning picture book.
One day, a small boy receives a very special invitation—the King and the Queen have invited him to the castle for tea. He accepts, with one question: “May I bring...
The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove
| Author | Christopher Moore |
| ISBN | 0060735457 |
The town psychiatrist has decided to switch everybody in Pine Cove, California, from their normal antidepressants to placebos, so naturally—well, to be accurate, artificially—business is booming at the local blues bar. Trouble is, those lonely slide-guitar notes have also attracted a colossal...
| Author | Grace Byers |
| ISBN | 0062667122 |
I Am Enough is the picture book everyone needs
This is a gorgeous, lyrical ode to loving who you are, respecting others, and being kind to one another—from Empire actor and activist Grace Byers and talented newcomer artist Keturah A. Bobo.
This is the perfect gift for mothers and...
Won-Ton: A Cat Tale Told in Haiku
| Author | Lee Wardlaw |
| ISBN | 0805089950 |
Full disclosure here, the author of this book sent me a copy as a gift. This isn't an uncommon occurrence, but I feel obliged to mention that.
I'll be honest, the fact that the story was told entirely in Haiku was *not* a selling point for me when I picked it up. In fact, I was more than slightly skeptical...
| Author | Michael Swanwick |
| ISBN | 0380972336 |
This is a very impressive and work of imagination, and while I've read better Swanwick, it's *still* Swanwick, and that means it's head-and-shoulders better than almost anything out there.
This novel gives the illusion that it might be a YA, with a lot of impressive and delightful adventure...
The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
| Author | Alan W. Watts |
| ISBN | 0679723005 |
Alan Watts asks what is the cause of the illusion that the self is a separate ego, housed in a bag of skin, and which confronts a universe of physical objects that are alien to it. Rather a person's identity (their ego) binds them to the physical universe, creating a relationship with their environment...
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
| Author | Kathleen Belew |
| ISBN | 0674286073 |
"Belew's book helps explain how we got to today's alt right."―Terry Gross, Fresh Air
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Its soldiers are not lone wolves but highly organized cadres motivated by a coherent and deeply troubling worldview made up of white supremacy, virulent...
Read borrowed copy after was suggested to me, published in 1971. Has stories and memories and essays from various Native Americans. Organized by those of Nature, of the white man, their losses and their desire to keep going. The first chapter is my favorite, beautifully written, quite spiritual. A...
| Author | Margot Zemach |
| ISBN | 0374436363 |
Once upon a time a poor unfortunate man lived with his mother, his wife, and his six children in a one-room hut.
Because they were so crowded, the children often fought and the man and his wife argued. When the poor man was unable to stand it any longer, he ran to the Rabbi for help.
As he follows...
| Author | LeUyen Pham |
| ISBN | 1368005640 |
Sometimes, when you have an itch, you really want to give it a scratch. Makes sense... but not when there's a sign, 'Dinosaurs do not scratch'. Alas, this collection of dinos are so eager to scratch that feeling that comes across the skin, but cannot disobey the sign. One of them is acting like quite the...
| Author | Ame Dyckman |
| ISBN | 1338112473 |
Every beachgoer knows that there's nothing more terrifying than a... SHARRRK! But this shark is just misunderstood, or is he? In a wholly original, side-splittingly funny story, New York Times bestselling author Ame Dyckman and illustrator Scott Magoon take this perennial theme and turn it on its...
Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market
| Author | Walter Johnson |
| ISBN | 0674005392 |
Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations and into the slave market itself, the heart of the domestic slave trade. Taking us inside the New Orleans slave market, the largest in the nation, where 100,000 men, women, and children were packaged,...
