Walk to the End of the World
10 best books like Walk to the End of the World (Suzy McKee Charnas): He, She and It, Spring, Rubyfruit Jungle, The Female Man, Trouble and Her Friends, Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America, The Child Garden, The Cross, The Extremes, Give a Girl a Knife
| Author | Marge Piercy |
| ISBN | 0449220605 |
In the middle of the twenty-first century, life as we know it has changed for all time. Shira Shipman's marriage has broken up, and her young son has been taken from her by the corporation that runs her zone, so she has returned to Tikva, the Jewish free town where she grew up. There, she is welcomed by Malkah,...
| Author | Ali Smith |
| ISBN | 0241207053 |
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet
Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...
| Author | Rita Mae Brown |
| ISBN | 0553146963 |
I read this book the year it was published. I was a young woman of 21, and it was during a time when it was still considered shocking, by most of mainstream straight America,to be gay. My sister had recently come out to me, and my head was spinning. We were very close, and she was much older. Her "roommate" of...
| Author | Joanna Russ |
| ISBN | 0807063134 |
I've seen people argue, both here and elsewhere, that this book is outdated and no longer topical.
I'm really confused what rose-colored glasses they're wearing, because as far as I can tell, the majority of this book is still far too true. I've been in these places far, far too often to write...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0812522133 |
Less than a hundred years from now, the forces of law and order crack down on the world of the computer nets. The hip, noir adventurers who get by on wit, bravado, and drugs, and haunt the virtual worlds of the Shadows of cyberspace, are up against the encroachments of civilization. It's time to adapt or...
Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey Into the Heart of America
| Author | James M. Fallows |
| ISBN | 1101871849 |
A vivid, surprising portrait of the civic and economic reinvention taking place in America, town by town and generally out of view of the national media. A realistically positive and provocative view of the country between its coasts.
For the last five years, James and Deborah Fallows have...
| Author | Geoff Ryman |
| ISBN | 0575076909 |
In a semi-tropical London, surrounded by paddy-fields, the people feed off the sun, like plants, the young are raised in Child Gardens and educated by viruses, And the Consensus oversees the country, 'treating' non-conformism. Information, culture, law and politics are biological functions....
| Author | Sigrid Undset |
| ISBN | 0141182350 |
Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own life--her familiarity...
| Author | Christopher Priest |
| ISBN | 0684816326 |
British-born Teresa Simons returns to England after the death of her husband, an FBI agent, who was killed by an out-of-control gunman while on assignment in Texas. A shocking coincidence has drawn her to the run-down south coast town of Bulverton, where a gunman's massacre has haunting similarities...
| Author | Amy Thielen |
| ISBN | 0307954900 |
A beautifully written food memoir chronicling one cook's journey from her rural Midwestern hometown to the intoxicating world of New York City fine dining and back again in search of her culinary roots.
Before Amy Thielen frantically plated rings of truffled potatoes in some of New York City...
| Author | Élisabeth Vonarburg |
| ISBN | 0553297899 |
Only a handful of humans remains in the City, the final stronghold of science and technology in a war-ravaged world. Forged from genetic materials stolen from the Outsiders, Elisa is the first of a new race--endowed with the remarkable power of rejuvenation. A metamorphic journey into (the) disturbing...
