This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey

9 best books like This Won't Take But a Minute, Honey (Steve Almond): Dear Hank Williams, Disappearing Earth, Cry, the Beloved Country, Giovanni’s Room, Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog, Moo, Night Sky with Exit Wounds, It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too), I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays

AuthorKimberly Willis Holt
ISBN0805080228
It's 1948 in Rippling Creek, Louisiana, and Tate P. Ellerbee's new teacher has just given her class an assignment--learning the art of letter-writing. Luckily, Tate has the perfect pen pal in mind: Hank Williams, a country music singer whose star has just begun to rise. Tate and her great-aunt and -uncle...
Disappearing Earth
AuthorJulia Phillips
For fans of Anthony Marra's A Constellation of Vital Phenomena and Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife: the kidnapping of two small girls on a remote peninsula in Russia sets in motion an evocative, moving, searingly original debut novel by a dazzling young writer.

One August afternoon, on the...
Cry, the Beloved Country
AuthorAlan Paton
Cry, the Beloved Country, the most famous and important novel in South Africa’s history, was an immediate worldwide bestseller in 1948. Alan Paton’s impassioned novel about a black man’s country under white man’s law is a work of searing beauty.

Cry, the beloved country, for the...
Giovanni’s Room
AuthorJames Baldwin
ISBN0141186356
An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here.

Baldwin's haunting and controversial second novel is his most sustained treatment of sexuality, and a classic of gay literature. In a 1950s Paris swarming with expatriates and characterized by dangerous liaisons and hidden violence, an...
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
AuthorDave Barry
ISBN1501161172
In this “little gem” ( Washington Independent Review of Books), Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Dave Barry learns how to age happily from his old but joyful dog, Lucy.

As Dave Barry turns seventy—not happily—he realizes that his dog,...
Moo
AuthorSharon Creech
ISBN0062415271
Fans of Newbery Medal winner Sharon Creech’s Love That Dog and Hate That Cat will love her newest tween novel, Moo. This uplifting tale reminds us that if we’re open to new experiences, life is full of surprises. Following one family’s momentous move from the city to rural Maine, an unexpected...
Night Sky with Exit Wounds
AuthorOcean Vuong
The most beautiful part of your body
is where it's headed, & remember
loneliness is still time spent
with the world.

To read Ocean Vuong's Night Sky with Exit Wounds is to be dazzled by gorgeous lyricism. I picked this up as part of my exploration of contemporary poetry I have...
It's Okay to Laugh (Crying Is Cool Too)
AuthorNora McInerny Purmort
ISBN0062419374
Joining the ranks of Let’s Pretend This Never Happened and Carry On, Warrior, a fierce, hysterically funny memoir that reminds us that comedy equals tragedy plus time.

Twentysomething Nora McInerny bounced from boyfriend to boyfriend and job to job. Then she met Aaron, a charismatic art...
I Wrote This Book Because I Love You: Essays
AuthorTim Kreider
ISBN1476738998
*A People Top 10 Book of 2018*

The New York Times essayist and author of We Learn Nothing, Tim Kreider trains his singular power of observation on his (often befuddling) relationships with women.

Psychologists have told him he’s a psychologist. Philosophers have told him he’s...
About
Feedback
© BooksList.Best 2024