This is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like (Real World)

9 best books like This is Portland: The City You've Heard You Should Like (Real World) (Alexander Barrett): Of Wolves and Men, Paper Girls, Vol. 5, The Tea Dragon Festival, The Lady Astronaut of Mars, City of Truth, Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, Hilda and the Mountain King, Immortal Hulk, Volume 4: Abomination, Articulated Restraint

Of Wolves and Men

Author	Barry Lopez
ISBN	0684163225

Originally published in 1978, this classic exploration of humanity’s complex relationship with and understanding of wolves returns with a new afterword by the author.

Humankind's relationship with the wolf is the sum of a spectrum of responses ranging from fear to admiration and affection....

Paper Girls, Vol. 5

Author	Brian K. Vaughan
ISBN	1534308679

“This day and age we’re living in
gives cause for apprehension
With speed and apprehension
And things like the Fourth Dimension.”

(As Time Goes by, verse unused in Casablanca, lyrics Herman Hupfield)

In this, the fifth volume, the girls are still in the future,...

The Tea Dragon Festival

Author	Katie O'Neill
ISBN	1620106558

Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real dragon turns out to be a different matter entirely! Aedhan is a young dragon who was appointed to protect the village but fell asleep in the forest eighty years ago. With the aid of Rinn’s adventuring uncle...

The Lady Astronaut of Mars

Author	Mary Robinette Kowal
ISBN	1466873825

Thirty years ago, Elma York led the expedition that paved the way to life on Mars. For years she's been longing to go back up there, to once more explore the stars. But there are few opportunities for an aging astronaut, even the famous Lady Astronaut of Mars. When her chance finally comes, it may be too late....

City of Truth

Author	James K. Morrow
ISBN	0156180421

Truth reigns supreme in the city-state of Veritas. Not even politicians lie, and weirdly frank notices abound—such as warning: this elevator maintained by people who hate their jobs: ride at your own risk. In this dystopia of mandatory candor, every preadolescent citizen is ruthlessly conditioned,...

Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump

Author	Rick Reilly
ISBN	0316528080

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"Reilly pokes more holes in Trump's claims than there are sand traps on all of his courses combined. It is by turns amusing and alarming." -- The New Yorker

"Golf is the spine of this shocking, wildly humorous book, but humanity is its flesh and spirit." ...

Hilda and the Mountain King

Author	Luke Pearson
ISBN	1911171178

See what perils await our beloved blue-haired adventurer in the sixth book of Luke Pearson’s widely praised series.
We rejoin our heroine for her latest adventure just as she awakes to find herself...in the body of a troll! Her mother is worried sick, and is perplexed by the strange creature that...

Immortal Hulk, Volume 4: Abomination

Author

Al Ewing

Once upon a time, Rick Jones was the Hulk's best friend. Rick was there at ground zero on the fateful day the Hulk was born, and during the early days when the Hulk was a mindless brute roaming the New Mexico desert, Rick was right by his side. The only one who believed in him. Now Rick Jones is dead and gone....

Articulated Restraint

Author	Mary Robinette Kowal
ISBN	1250241308

3.5 stars for this SF short story, free online here at Tor.com. Review first posted here on Fantasy Literature:

Ruby Donaldson, an astronaut stationed on the Neutral Buoyancy Lab or NBL, is nursing a severely sprained ankle, which she twisted while practicing a Charleston Flip in a dance rehearsal,...