The Lone Pilgrim

9 best books like The Lone Pilgrim (Laurie Colwin): Thick: And Other Essays, The Hound of Justice, Laughter in the Dark, Haunted Ground, What Should Be Wild, Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity, Why Religion?: A Personal Story, Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics, The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family

Thick: And Other Essays

Author	Tressie McMillan Cottom
ISBN	1620974363

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals

Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed author of Lower Ed, now brilliantly shifts gears from running regression analyses...

The Hound of Justice

Author	Claire O'Dell
ISBN	0062699334

Dr. Janet Watson and former covert agent Sara Holmes, introduced in the acclaimed A Study in Honor, continue their dangerous investigation into the new American Civil War with the help of fresh allies, advanced technology, and brilliant deduction in this superb reimagining of Sherlock Holmes.

It’s...

Laughter in the Dark

Author	Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN	0811216748

"Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for the sake of a youthful mistress; he loved; was not loved; and his life ended in disaster." Thus begins Vladimir Nabokov's Laughter in the Dark; this, the author tells...

Haunted Ground

Author	Erin Hart
ISBN	0743235053

A dazzling debut -- already an international publishing sensation -- combining forensics, history, archaeology, and suspense.
Introducing Erin Hart, who brings the beauty, poignancy, mystery, and romance of the Irish countryside to her richly nuanced first novel.

When farmers...

What Should Be Wild

Author	Julia Fine
ISBN	0062684159

In this darkly funny, striking debut, a highly unusual young woman must venture into the woods at the edge of her home to remove a curse that has plagued the women in her family for millennia—an utterly original novel with all the mesmerizing power of The Tiger’s Wife, The Snow Child, and Swamplandia!

Cursed....

Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity

Author	Elaine Pagels
ISBN	0679722327

Deepens & refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us.
Acknowledgments
The Book of Genesis, Chapters 1-3
Introduction
"The Kingdom of God is at hand"
Christians against the Roman order
Gnostic...

Why Religion?: A Personal Story

Author	Elaine Pagels
ISBN	0062368559

Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? Why do so many still believe? And how do various traditions still shape the way people experience everything from sexuality to politics, whether they are religious or not? In Why Religion? Elaine Pagels looks to her own life to help address these...

Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics

Author	Mary Eberstadt
ISBN	1599474115

Who am I? The question today haunts every society in the Western world.  

Legions of people—especially the young—have become unmoored from a firm sense of self. To compensate, they join the ranks of ideological tribes spawned by identity politics and react with...

The Household and the War for the Cosmos: Recovering a Christian Vision for the Family

Author

C.R. Wiley

Really good book which doesn't quite fit the genre, at least not as you probably anticipate. There's a very compelling comparison of Abraham and Aeneas in the first half, and the second half gives a good explanation of "household" (oikonomia) and a very interesting reading of Ephesians with that perspective....