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10 best books like The Living (Annie Dillard): The Book of Delights, The Love of a Good Woman, The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest, Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber, I am Forbidden, The Rifles, Turn of Mind, A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific, The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus, Sweet Water

The Book of Delights
AuthorRoss Gay
ISBN1616207922
Ross Gay’s The Book of Delights is a genre-defying book of essays—some as short as a paragraph; some as long as five pages—that record the small joys that occurred in one year, from birthday to birthday, and that we often overlook in our busy lives. His is a meditation on delight that takes a clear-eyed...
The Love of a Good Woman
AuthorAlice Munro
ISBN0099287862
**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature**

Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable,...
The Good Rain: Across Time & Terrain in the Pacific Northwest
AuthorTimothy Egan
ISBN0679734856
Personally I found this book created the seminal event that influenced the remaining course of my life; both as a lifelong resident of Washington State, and particularly as an Aquatic Scientist. My work has caused me to travel many parts of Washington State that Timothy Egan mentions in this book, so...
Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber
AuthorMark Twight
ISBN0898868874
2001 Banff Mountain Literature Award Winner

Mark Twight's collected works, some never before published in North America Includes dramatic black and white mountaineering photos Features brand new epilogues to all of the stories They call him Dr. Doom.

Raving and kicking against...
I am Forbidden
AuthorAnouk Markovits
ISBN0307984737
A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar.
 
 
     Sweeping from the Central European countryside just before World War II to Paris to contemporary Williamsburg, Brooklyn, I...
The Rifles
AuthorWilliam T. Vollmann
ISBN0140176233
The story of John Franklin’s doomed 1845 attempt to discover a Northwest Passage, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, William T. Vollmann's visionary fictional...
Turn of Mind
AuthorAlice LaPlante
ISBN0385669852
A stunning first novel, both literary and thriller, about a retired surgeon with dementia who clings to bits of reality through anger, frustration, shame and unspeakable loss.

Turn of Mind, a literary page-turner about a retired orthopedic surgeon suffering from dementia and accused of...
A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
AuthorRobert M. Utley
Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West exted the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West...
The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus
AuthorRyan Jacobs
ISBN0451495691
Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by theft, secrecy, sabotage, and fraud. Farmers patrol their fields with rifles and fear losing trade secrets to spies. Hunters plant poisoned meatballs to eliminate rival truffle-hunting dogs. Naive...
Sweet Water
AuthorChristina Baker Kline
ISBN0060995130
Kline's first novel is a captivating read.
When a grandfather she never knew bequeaths her a house and 60 acres of land in Sweetwater, Tenn., a restless young artist leaves New York to recover her past and rethink her future. Cassie Simon's mother Ellen died when Cassie was only three; raised in Boston...
The Deep, Deep Snow
AuthorBrian Freeman
Deputy Shelby Lake was abandoned as a baby, saved by a stranger who found her in the freezing cold. Now, years later, a young boy is missing - and Shelby is the one who must rescue a child.

The only evidence of what happened to 10-year-old Jeremiah Sloan is a bicycle left behind on a lonely road. After...
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