The Season of the Witch
10 best books like The Season of the Witch (James Leo Herlihy): Still Life with Woodpecker, Lord of Light, The Inverted World, The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man, In Watermelon Sugar, As She Climbed Across the Table, Sweet Dreams, Ultimate Journey, White Light, Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-Of-Body Experience
Still Life with Woodpecker is a sort of a love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, examines the conflict between social activism and romantic individualism, and paints a portrait of contemporary...
| Author | Roger Zelazny |
| ISBN | 0060567236 |
Prince Siddhartha attained enlightenment at the foot of the Bodhi tree and became the Buddha: his teachings swept across India, striking at the roots of decadent Brahmanism. The Hindu priests were understandably alarmed, but were helpless against the doctrine of the eightfold path as the stale air...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0060134216 |
The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. Rails must be freshly laid ahead of the city & carefully removed in its wake. Rivers & mountains present nearly insurmountable challenges to the ingenuity of the city's engineers. But if the city does not move,...
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man
| Author | Peter Tompkins |
| ISBN | 0060915870 |
Exploring the world of plants and its relation to mankind as revealed by the latest discoveries of scientists, The Secret Life of Plants includes remarkable information about plants as lie detectors and plants as ecological sentinels; it describes their ability to adapt to human wishes, their response...
| Author | Richard Brautigan |
| ISBN | 0099437597 |
393. In Watermelon Sugar, Richard Brautigan
In Watermelon Sugar is an American post-apocalyptic novel by Richard Brautigan written in 1964 and published in 1968. Set in the aftermath of a fallen civilization, it focuses on a commune organized around a central gathering house which is named...
As She Climbed Across the Table
| Author | Jonathan Lethem |
| ISBN | 0375700129 |
Anna Karenina left her husband for a dashing officer. Lady Chatterley left hers for the gamekeeper. Now Alice Coombs has her boyfriend for nothing … nothing at all. Just how that should have come to pass and what Philip Engstrand, Alice’s spurned boyfriend, can do about it is the...
| Author | Michael Frayn |
| ISBN | 0140040633 |
An utter delight.
Even though it was written in the 1970s, it still feels completely fresh & topical today. It's a lovely, optimistic satire of man & covers many of the Big Ideas. I know when Life of Pi was so very popular, various reviews said it would affirm/renew your faith in God (a...
| Author | Robert A. Monroe |
| ISBN | 0385472080 |
In 1958, a successful businessman named Robert Mornroe began to have experiences that drastically altered his life. Unpredictably, and without his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a "second body" to locales far removed from the physical and spiritual...
Perhaps I should say why I have read this book in the first place: Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, a set theorist to be precise, and this book, his opera prima, was written around a central theme: infinity. To write fiction trying to convey Cantor's theory of transfinite numbers is no minor feat, and that...
Journeys Out of the Body: The Classic Work on Out-Of-Body Experience
| Author | Robert A. Monroe |
| ISBN | 0385008619 |
This is one of my favorite books.
Robert Monroe was a very successful businessman who had no real religious background and no interest in anything mystical or esoteric. When he found himself spontaneously going out of his body, he had no way of understanding what was happening to him and his...
