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10 best books like The Portable Jack Kerouac (Jack Kerouac): Agostino, Pedro Páramo, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Year of the Monkey, Sing to It: New Stories, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Too Much and Not the Mood, Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms, Nights as Day, Days as Night, Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction

Agostino
AuthorAlberto Moravia
ISBN2080684426
Agostino, un adolescent de treize ans, passe de merveilleuses vacances sur une plage avec sa mère à qui il voue une passion aussi intense qu'innocente. La rencontre de celle-ci et d'un jeune homme auquel elle est loin d'être insensible met un terme brutal à ce parfait bonheur: Agostino découvre...
Pedro Páramo
AuthorJuan Rulfo
ISBN0802133908
A classic of Mexican modern literature about a haunted village.

As one enters Juan Rulfo's legendary novel, one follows a dusty road to a town of death. Time shifts from one consciousness to another in a hypnotic flow of dreams, desires, and memories, a world of ghosts dominated by the figure...
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
AuthorThomas Ligotti
His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it...
Year of the Monkey
AuthorPatti Smith
ISBN0525657681
From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year.

Following a run of New Year’s concerts at San Francisco’s legendary Fillmore, Patti...
Sing to It: New Stories
AuthorAmy Hempel
ISBN1982109114
“All the tawdry details I’m dying for are in these stories, but they’re given out like old sweaters—without shame, without guile. Amy Hempel is the writer who makes me feel most affiliated with other humans; we are all living this way—hiding, alone, obsessed—and that’s ok.” —Miranda...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
AuthorBessel A. van der Kolk
ISBN0670785938
A pioneering researcher and one of the world’s foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
 
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics;...
Too Much and Not the Mood
AuthorDurga Chew-Bose
ISBN0374535957
An entirely original portrait of a young writer shutting out the din in order to find her own voice

On April 11, 1931, Virginia Woolf ended her entry in A Writer’s Diary with the words “too much and not the mood.” She was describing how tired she was of correcting her own writing, of the “cramming...
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms
AuthorHannah Fry
ISBN0393357368
When it comes to artificial intelligence, we either hear of a paradise on earth or of our imminent extinction. It’s time we stand face-to-digital-face with the true powers and limitations of the algorithms that already automate important decisions in healthcare, transportation, crime, and commerce....
Nights as Day, Days as Night
AuthorMichel Leiris

French surreal fiction writer Michel Leiris in 1922.

Nights as Day, Days as Night - More than one hundred entries in this book, the author's dream journal, composed over a span of forty years. Here is the very first entry: "In front of a crowd of gawking spectators - of whom I am one - a series...
Storycraft: The Complete Guide to Writing Narrative Nonfiction
AuthorJack R. Hart
ISBN0226318141
From the work of the New Journalists in the 1960s, to the New Yorker essays of John McPhee, Susan Orlean, Atul Gawande, and a host of others, to blockbuster book-length narratives such as Mary Roach’s Stiff or Erik Larson’s Devil in the White City, narrative nonfiction has come into its own. Yet...
Hallucinogenic Plants: A Golden Guide
AuthorRichard Evans Schultes
ISBN0307243621
What are hallucinogenic plants? How do they affect mind and body? Who uses them - and why? This unique Golden Guide surveys the role of psychoactive plants in primitive and civilized societies from early times to the present. The first nontechnical guide to both the cultural significance and physiological...
Then It Fell Apart
AuthorMoby
ISBN0571339409
*Featured in The Times' 'Best Books of the Year So Far'*

What do you do when you realise you have everything you think you've ever wanted but still feel completely empty? What do you do when it all starts to fall apart? The second volume of Moby's extraordinary life story is a journey into the dark...
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