The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

9 best books like The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Pico Iyer): Gandhi: An autobiography, The Snow Leopard, Aunts Aren't Gentlemen, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography, Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet, The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, On Self-Respect, 1Q84 #1-2, Things I Don't Want to Know

Gandhi: An autobiography

Author	Mahatma Gandhi
ISBN	0807059099

Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the...

The Snow Leopard

Author	Peter Matthiessen
ISBN	0140255087

“The sun is roaring, it fills to bursting each crystal of snow. I flush with feeling, moved beyond my comprehension, and once again, the warm tears freeze upon my face. These rocks and mountains, all this matter, the snow itself, the air- the earth is ringing. All is moving, full of power, full of light.”...

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen

Author	P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN	0140041923

The curious case of the Maiden Eggesford Horror

When the doctor advises Bertie to live the quiet life, he and Jeeves head for the pure air and peace of Maiden Eggesford. However, they hadn't reckoned on Bertie's irrepressible but decidedly scheming Aunt Dahlia, around whom an imbroglio of...

The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

Author

Deborah Levy

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind...

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

Author	Xinran
ISBN	0385515480

It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of...

The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance

Author	David Epstein
ISBN	1591845114

Now a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. 

In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance...

On Self-Respect

Author

Joan Didion

“Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power" was first published in Vogue in 1961, and which was republished as “On Self-Respect” in the author’s 1968 collection, Slouching Towards Bethlehem.​ Didion wrote the essay as the magazine was going to press, to fill the space left after another writer...

1Q84 #1-2

Author

Haruki Murakami

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’...

Things I Don't Want to Know

Author	Deborah Levy
ISBN	1907903631

Marketed as a feminist response to Orwell’s “Why I Write,” Things I Don’t Want to Know tracks how a soft-spoken girl became a prolific writer. Across four fast-moving sections, novelist Deborah Levy recounts her childhood spent in South Africa at the height of apartheid, with her father incarcerated...