Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books

7 best books like Vintage Reading: From Plato to Bradbury: A Personal Tour of Some of the World's Best Books (Robert Kanigel): Cari Mora, The Purloined Letter, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last, Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories, On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books, Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life, Siege: Trump Under Fire

Cari Mora

Author	Thomas Harris
ISBN	1538750147

From the creator of Hannibal Lecter and The Silence of the Lambs comes a story of evil, greed, and the consequences of dark obsession.

Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the...

The Purloined Letter

Author	Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN	0886820618

Dans cette nouvelle, le détective Auguste Dupin est informé par G..., le préfet de police de Paris, qu'une lettre de la plus haute importance a été volée dans le boudoir royal. Le moment précis du vol et le voleur, D..., sont connus du policier, mais celui-ci est dans l'incapacité d'accabler...

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last

Author	Stephen Levine
ISBN	0609801945

In his new book, Stephen Levine, author of the perennial best-seller Who Dies?, teaches us how to live each moment, each hour, each day mindfully--as if it were all that was left. On his deathbed, Socrates exhorted his followers to practice dying as the highest form of wisdom. Levine decided to live this...

Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories

Author	Sharyn McCrumb
ISBN	0345414942

"In an earlier life, McCrumb must have been a balladeer, singing of restless spirits, star-crossed lovers, and the consoling beauty of nature. . . . The overall effect is spellbinding."
--The Washington Post

Bestselling author Sharyn McCrumb is "a born storyteller" (Mary Higgins Clark)...

On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life Through Great Books

Author	Karen Swallow Prior
ISBN	1587433966

Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires...

Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life

Author

Beth Kempton

'A truly transformative read' Sunday Times STYLE 'More than ever, we need books like this' Jessica Seaton, Co-Founder of Toast and author of Gather, Cook, Feast A whole new way of looking at the world - and your life - inspired by centuries-old Japanese wisdom. Wabi sabi ("wah-bi sah-bi") is a...

Siege: Trump Under Fire

Author	Michael Wolff
ISBN	1250253829

Michael Wolff, author of the bombshell bestseller Fire and Fury, once again takes us inside the Trump presidency to reveal a White House under siege.

With Fire and Fury, Michael Wolff defined the first phase of the Trump administration; now, in Siege, he has written an equally essential and...