Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets
10 best books like Travels with Lizbeth: Three Years on the Road and on the Streets (Lars Eighner): Miracle on 34th Street, How We Fight For Our Lives, The Porpoise, The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love, A Christmas Story, Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, Queer, Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop
| Author | Valentine Davies |
| ISBN | 0152163778 |
Generations of believers in hope and goodwill have made Valentine Davies’ Miracle on 34th Street a treasured part of their holiday traditions. Millions of copies of this award-winning story have sold since its first publication in 1947, delighting readers of all ages. A facsimile edition of the...
How We Fight For Our Lives
| Author | Saeed Jones |
| ISBN | 1501132733 |
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir written at the crossroads of sex, race, and power.
“People don’t just happen,” writes Saeed Jones. “We sacrifice former versions of ourselves. We sacrifice the people who dared to...
| Author | Mark Haddon |
| ISBN | 1784742821 |
‘I really am so very, very sorry about this,’ he says, in an oddly formal voice… They strike the side of a grain silo. They are travelling at seventy miles per hour.
A newborn baby is the sole survivor of a terrifying plane crash.
She is raised in wealthy isolation by an overprotective...
The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
"[A] poignant addition to the literature of moneyed glamour and its inevitable tarnish and decay...like something out of Fitzgerald or Waugh."--The New Yorker
A parable for the new age of inequality: part family history, part detective story, part history of a vanishing class, and a vividly...
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
| Author | Jonathan Van Ness |
| ISBN | 0062906402 |
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey.
The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy.
Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing...
| Author | Jean Shepherd |
| ISBN | 0767916220 |
A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film.
The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year....
Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing
| Author | Robert A. Caro |
| ISBN | 0525656340 |
From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply revealing recollections about his experiences researching and writing his acclaimed books
For the first time in his long career, Robert...
Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
| Author | Charles King |
| ISBN | 0385542194 |
A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures...
| Author | William S. Burroughs |
| ISBN | 0330300164 |
I have a passionate hatred for William Burroughs. I think even his fans have to concede that he's a degenerate piece of shit. I admit my prior experience with him consists of 5 pages of Naked Lunch and a couple biographies of various sorts, none of which fail to mention the pedophilia and him murdering his...
| Author | Otto Penzler |
| ISBN | 1593156170 |
Each year, for the past seventeen years, Mysterious Bookshop proprietor Otto Penzler has commissioned an original Christmas story by a leading suspense writer. These stories were then produced as pamphlets, just 1,000 copies, and given to customers of the bookstore as a Christmas present. Now,...
| Author | Peter Delacorte |
| ISBN | 0671023241 |
While in Paris, Gabriel Prince, a somewhat jaded but charming writer of high-end travel guides, is offered the chance of a lifetime -- a trip through time. There's only one hitch: the left-wing owner of the time machine, quantum physicist Jasper Hudnut, wants Gabriel to perform an errand. Gabriel must...
| Author | Caroline Kennedy |
| ISBN | 1401322271 |
"When I began assembling [this] collection, I was skeptical that I would learn anything new about Christmas, but reading and reflecting on the history and spirit of Christmas brought back many memories, and taught me a great deal. . . . The literature of Christmas ranges from the miraculous to the tragic,...
| Author | Evan S. Connell |
| ISBN | 0865470561 |
Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0865470561 / 9780865470569 can be found here
The wife of a successful lawyer in 1930s Kansas City, India Bridge, tries to cope with her dissatisfaction with an easy, though empty, life.
Before Betty Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique there was...
