Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books

6 best books like Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books (Leah Price): Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump, The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden, Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History, A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory, The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Author	Robin Wall Kimmerer
ISBN	0870714996

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.Robin Wall Kimmerer's...

American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump

Author

Tim Alberta

Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent provides a rollicking insider’s look at the making of the modern Republican Party—how a decade of cultural upheaval, populist outrage, and ideological warfare made the GOP vulnerable to a hostile takeover from the unlikeliest of insurgents:...

The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden

Author	Stanley Kunitz
ISBN	0393329976

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published, that took place between 2002 and 2004. Beginning with the garden, that "work of the imagination," the explorations journey through personal...

Molotov's Magic Lantern: A Journey In Russian History

Author	Rachel Polonsky
ISBN	0571237800

When the British journalist Rachel Polonsky moves to Moscow, she discovers an apartment on Romanov Street that was once home to the Soviet elite. One of the most infamous neighbors was the ruthless apparatchik Vyacheslav Molotov, a henchman for Stalin who was a participant in the collectivizations...

A Bowl of Olives: On Food and Memory

Author	Sara Midda
ISBN	0761145265

From the author of the international bestseller In and Out of the Garden and the wondrous sketchbook Sara Midda’s South of France comes a long-awaited treasure of a book. Drawn from the artist’s wealth of impressions and memories, it is a book for lovers of food and art and fine gift books—a book...

The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America

Author	Martin Amis
ISBN	0140127194

A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog.

At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed...