The Rediscovery of North America
10 best books like The Rediscovery of North America (Barry Lopez): The War of the End of the World, The Water Dancer, The Mandarins, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, Memoirs of Hadrian, Blindsight, The Code of the Woosters, Sister Carrie, Patriotism, The Responsibility of Intellectuals
The War of the End of the World
| Author | Mario Vargas Llosa |
| ISBN | 0571139612 |
Practical Eschatology
At precisely the time that Fyodor Dostoevsky was writing of the Grand Inquisitor and his confrontation with a Jesus returned to the world (1879-80), the events he was fictionalising were playing themselves out in the scrublands of the Brazilian State of Bahia. In fact,...
| Author | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
| ISBN | 0399590595 |
Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her—but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring scheme:...
| Author | Simone de Beauvoir |
| ISBN | 0007203942 |
In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir does not flinch in her look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of the Second World War. Drawing on those who surrounded her -- Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler -- and her passionate love affair with Nelson Algren, Beauvoir dissects...
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
| Author | David Wallace-Wells |
| ISBN | 0525576703 |
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are barely scratching the surface of what terrors are possible. In California, wildfires now rage year-round, destroying thousands of homes. Across the US, "500-year" storms...
| Author | Marguerite Yourcenar |
| ISBN | 0374529264 |
Both an exploration of character and a reflection on the meaning of history, Memoirs of Hadrian has received international acclaim since its first publication in France in 1951. In it, Marguerite Yourcenar reimagines the Emperor Hadrian's arduous boyhood, his triumphs and reversals, and finally,...
| Author | Peter Watts |
| ISBN | 0765312182 |
It's been two months since a myriad of alien objects clenched about the Earth, screaming as they burned. The heavens have been silent since - until a derelict space probe hears whispers from a distant comet. Something talks out there: but not to us. Who to send to meet the alien, when the alien doesn't want...
| Author | P.G. Wodehouse |
| ISBN | 0393339815 |
No one weaves a plot like Wodehouse. Also, if you have a cow creamer, guard it with your life.
The 2012 re-read:
Aunt Dahlia dispatches Bertie to Totleigh Towers to purlorn a silver cow creamer coveted by his uncle Tom from Sir Watkyn Basset. Unfortunately, Bertie has his work cut out for...
| Author | Theodore Dreiser |
| ISBN | 0393960420 |
When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.'
The tale of Carrie Meeber's rise to stardom in the theatre and George Hurstwood's slow decline...
| Author | Yukio Mishima |
| ISBN | 0811213129 |
One of the most powerful short stories ever written: Yukio Mishima’s masterpiece about the erotics of patriotism and honor, love and suicide.
By now, Yukio Mishima’s (1925-1970) dramatic demise through an act of seppuku after an inflammatory public speech has become the stuff of literary...
Selected by Newsweek as one of “14 nonfiction books you’ll want to read this fall”
Fifty years after it first appeared, one of Noam Chomsky’s greatest essays will be published for the first time as a timely stand-alone book, with a new preface by the author
As a nineteen-year-old...
Elements Of Moral Philosophy: And The Right Thing To Do
| Author | James Rachels |
| ISBN | 0077107462 |
James Rachels, the distinguished American moral philosopher, was born in Columbus, Georgia, and graduated from nearby Mercer University in 1962. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studying under Professors W. D. Falk and E. M. Adams. He taught at the...
