The Portable Thoreau

10 best books like The Portable Thoreau (Henry David Thoreau): The Long Call, Cathedral, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, Lost in the Funhouse, The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence, Endgame, Wittgenstein's Mistress, The Portable Voltaire, Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master, The Portable Emerson

The Long Call

Author	Ann Cleeves
ISBN	1250204445

For the first time in 20 years, Ann Cleeves—international bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—embarks on a gripping new series.
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside...

Cathedral

Author	Raymond Carver
ISBN	0679723692

Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.  These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s career and “overflow with the danger,...

CivilWarLand in Bad Decline

Author	George Saunders
ISBN	0099595818

Have you ever heard a politically incorrect joke and laughed, and then felt guilty, but then laughed again?

Have you ever driven by a car wreck and slowed down to see the emergency response vehicles, and the vehicle made to look like a damaged accordion?

Have you ever watched a reality...

Lost in the Funhouse

Author	John Barth
ISBN	0385240872

Lost in the Funhouse, John Barth’s collection of fourteen metafictional short-stories could take the cupcake for the most extreme form of self-reflexive postmodern literature ever written. Frame-Tale is ten words long on a Mobius strip, Night-Sea Journey a ten-pager, an occasionally...

The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

Author	Josh Waitzkin
ISBN	0743277457

Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his first National Chess Championship at the age of nine, Waitzkin was catapulted into a media whirlwind as a teenager when his father's book "Searching for Bobby Fischer" was made into a major motion picture....

Endgame

Author	Samuel Beckett
ISBN	0571070671

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, novels, stories, and poetry has earned him an uncontested place as one of the greatest writers of our time. Endgame, originally written in French and translated into English by Beckett himself, is now considered...

Wittgenstein's Mistress

Author	David Markson
ISBN	1564782115

Wittgenstein's Mistress is a novel unlike anything David Markson - or anyone else - has ever written before. It is the story of a woman who is convinced, and, astonishingly, will ultimately convince the reader as well, that she is the only person left on earth. Presumably she is mad. And yet so appealing...

The Portable Voltaire

Author

Voltaire

Satirist, novelist, poet, dramatist, historian, moralist, critic, courtier, and correspondent, champion of reason and fanatical adversary of fanaticism, a darling of kings with the unfortunate habit of turning them into enemies, François Arouet de Voltaire is one of the few writers to have imposed...

Daughter of Fire: A Diary of a Spiritual Training with a Sufi Master

Author	Irina Tweedie
ISBN	0963457454

A friend lent me this book the past week. Sometimes with spiritual books I like to just open them up to a random page and see if the book speaks to me. That’s what I did with this book the past week.

There are so many beautiful paths in the world, and this book reminds me of the commonalities between...

The Portable Emerson

Author	Ralph Waldo Emerson
ISBN	0140150943

This volume, edited by Carl Bode in collaboration with Malcolm Cowley, presents the essential Emerson, selected from works that eloquently express the philosophy of a worldly idealist. The Portable Emerson comprises essays, including “History,” “Self-Reliance,” “The Over-Soul,”...

E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World-Class Company

Author	Michael E. Gerber
ISBN	0060723238

The bestselling author of phenomenally successful and continually vital The E-Myth Revisited presents the next big step in entrepreneurial management and leadership with E-Myth Mastery.

A practical, real-world program that is implemented real-time into your business, Gerber begins...