The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York

6 best books like The World in a City: Traveling the Globe Through the Neighborhoods of the New New York (Joseph Berger): An Ocean of Minutes, Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America, Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink, Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran, The Boat Rocker

An Ocean of Minutes

Author	Thea Lim
ISBN	1501192566

Shortlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize and a Best Book of the Year according to Real Simple, the Globe and Mail, and the CBC, this follows the love story of two people who are at once mere weeks and many years apart.

In this novel America is in the grip of a deadly flu pandemic. When Frank...

Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet

Author	Gernot Wagner
ISBN	0691159475

How knowing the extreme risks of climate change can help us prepare for an uncertain future

If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if...

The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America

Author	Pamela Geller
ISBN	1439189307

Popular conservative blogger Pamela Geller and New York Times bestselling author Robert Spencer sound a wake-up call for Americans to stop the Obama administration from limiting our hard-won freedoms, silencing our democratic voices, and irreparably harming America for generations to come.

America...

Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink

Author

David Remnick

Since its earliest days, "The New Yorker "has been a tastemaker literally. As the home of A. J. Liebling, Joseph Wechsberg, and M.F.K. Fisher, who practically invented American food writing, the magazine established a tradition that is carried forward today by irrepressible literary gastronomes,...

Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran

Author	Azadeh Moaveni
ISBN	1586483781

As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging to tradition, and dreaming of Tehran. Outside, she was...

The Boat Rocker

Author	Ha Jin
ISBN	0307911624

From the award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash: an urgent, timely novel that follows an aspiring author, an outrageous book idea, and a lone journalist's dogged quest for truth in the Internet age.

New York, 2005. Chinese expatriate Feng Danlin is a fiercely principled reporter at...