The Lighthouse Road

8 best books like The Lighthouse Road (Peter Geye): The Last Days of the Incas, The Grammarians, Virgil Wander, Roxaboxen, Hot Dog Taste Test, Selected Poems and Letters, A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives, The Gravity of Birds

The Last Days of the Incas

Author

Kim MacQuarrie

Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. This authoritative, exciting history...

The Grammarians

Author

Cathleen Schine

"The Grammarians" are Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins who share an obsession with words. They speak a secret “twin” tongue of their own as toddlers; as adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation continues, but this love, which has always...

Virgil Wander

Author	Leif Enger
ISBN	0802128785

The first novel in ten years from award-winning, million-copy bestselling author Leif Enger, Virgil Wander is an enchanting and timeless all-American story that follows the inhabitants of a small Midwestern town in their quest to revive its flagging heart.

Midwestern movie house owner...

Roxaboxen

Author	Alice McLerran
ISBN	0060526335

From two-time Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Barbara Cooney and celebrated children’s book author Alice McLerran comes Roxaboxen, a treasured story about the magic of a child’s imagination.

Marian called it Roxboxen. There across the road, it looked like any rocky hill—nothing...

Hot Dog Taste Test

Author	Lisa Hanawalt
ISBN	1770462376

The new book from the James Beard Award-winning cartoonist and designer/producer of Netflix’s Bojack Horseman

Lisa Hanawalt's debut graphic novel, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, achieved instant and widespread acclaim: reviews in the New York Times and NPR, Best of Year nods from the Washington...

Selected Poems and Letters

Author	Emily Dickinson
ISBN	0808577395

Bees and calvary.

I wanted to like this more than I did. The poems are short and sharp. The language plain -- understandable on the surface at least, by anyone who speaks English and can think. You don't even need access to a dictionary. And on top of that, she isn't squarely on the university list...

A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives

Author	Kelly Brogan
ISBN	0062405578

Named one of the top health and wellness books for 2016 by MindBodyGreen

Depression is not a disease. It is a symptom.

Recent years have seen a shocking increase in antidepressant use the world over, with 1 in 4 women starting their day with medication. These drugs have steadily become...

The Gravity of Birds

Author	Tracy Guzeman
ISBN	1451689764

In this compelling debut novel, an art authenticator and an art historian are employed by a famous, reclusive painter to sell a never-before-seen portrait, leading them to discover devastating secrets two sisters have kept from each other, and from the artist who determined the course of their lives.

How...