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10 best books like The Ninemile Wolves (Rick Bass): Child of God, The Dark Tower Series Collection: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain, Housekeeping, Of Wolves and Men, Richard II, King Henry VI, Part 2, King Henry VI, Part 3, Henry VI, Part 1

Child of God
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0679728740
In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic...
The Dark Tower Series Collection: The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three, The Waste Lands, Wizard and Glass, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower
AuthorStephen King
ISBN1780484542
( Spoiler Free Review)

Well, it's been a few years since I finished reading The Dark Tower Series and I have decided to share a few thoughts. First of all, I have to say that this was a massive undertaking from Stephen King and he didn't disappoint ( well, until I got to the ending anyway...) The books...
The Crossing
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0394574753
Following All the Pretty Horses in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy is a novel whose force of language is matched only by its breadth of experience and depth of thought. In the bootheel of New Mexico hard on the frontier, Billy and Boyd Parham are just boys in the years before the Second World War, but on...
Cities of the Plain
AuthorCormac McCarthy
ISBN0679747192
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...
Housekeeping
AuthorMarilynne Robinson
ISBN0312424094
A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent grandmother, then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small Far...
Of Wolves and Men
AuthorBarry Lopez
ISBN0684163225
Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.

Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging from fear to admiration and affection....
Richard II
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0198320043
Tragedy of King Richard II , William Shakespeare
King Richard the Second is a history play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1595. It is based on the life of King Richard II of England (ruled 1377–1399) and is the first part of a tetralogy, referred to by some...
King Henry VI, Part 2
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
King Henry VI, Part 2 = 2 Henry VI (Wars of the Roses #6), William Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2, is a history play, by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1591, and set during the lifetime of King Henry VI of England. Henry VI, Part 2, focuses on the King's inability to quell the bickering...
King Henry VI, Part 3
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN1903436311

A thoroughly accomplished piece of playcraft and a significant work of literature, this complex account of civil war is filled with broken oaths, betrayals, and labyrinthine patterns of multi-generational revenge, and Shakespeare gives us a coherent thread of narrative to guide us through...
Henry VI, Part 1
AuthorWilliam Shakespeare
ISBN0140714650
Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming.

A boy king, Henry VI, is on the English throne, and the indomitable Talbot leads the English cause in France. Joan La Pucelle...
Winter in the Blood
AuthorJames Welch
ISBN0140086447
What caught my attention with this book was one of the blurbs on the cover (I read an edition different from the Penguin classics one) from Charles R. Larson from The New Republic that says:
"For some readers this will be the most significant piece of Indian writing they have yet encountered; for others,...
An Enemy of the People
AuthorHenrik Ibsen
ISBN1595406441
In An Enemy of the People, Ibsen places his main characters, Dr. Thomas Stockman, in the role of an enlightened and persecuted minority of one confronting an ignorant, powerful majority. When the physician learns that the famous and financially successful baths in his hometown are contaminated,...
Levels of Life
AuthorJulian Barnes
ISBN0385350775
Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart.

"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed..."

One of the judges who awarded...
American Wolf
AuthorNate Blakeslee
ISBN1101902809
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The enthralling story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her

Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction...
Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness
AuthorPete Fromm
ISBN0312422725
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award, Indian Creek Chronicles is Pete Fromm's account of seven winter months spent alone in a tent in Idaho guarding salmon eggs and coming face to face with the blunt realities of life as a contemporary mountain man. A gripping story of...
The Crucible of Islam
AuthorG.W. Bowersock
ISBN0674057767
Little is known about Arabia in the sixth century CE. Yet from this distant time and place emerged a faith and an empire that stretched from the Iberian peninsula to India. Today, Muslims account for nearly a quarter of the global population. G. W. Bowersock seeks to illuminate this most obscure and yet...
New Poems: A Selection from Satura and Diario del '71 E del '72
AuthorEugenio Montale
ISBN0811205983
If you are new to Montale’s work the best place to start is with his first book Cuttlefish Bones (Ossi di seppia), published in 1925. This book, published in 1976, the year after Montale won the Nobel Prize in literature, is a very good introduction to Montale’s later works. The introduction by G....
The Red Tenda of Bologna
AuthorJohn Berger
ISBN0241339014
'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'

A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.

Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating...
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