You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day
10 best books like You Can Never Find a Rickshaw When It Monsoons: The World on One Cartoon a Day (Mo Willems): Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously, Hope Rides Again, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips, Riding the Iron Rooster, One Year Off: Leaving It All Behind for a Round-the-World Journey with Our Children, Legally Blonde, Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah, Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?", Up From the Sea, The Life of Mammals
Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously
Author | Jessica Pan |
ISBN | 0857526154 |
What would happen if a shy introvert lived like a gregarious extrovert for one year? If she knowingly and willingly put herself in perilous social situations that she’d normally avoid at all costs? Jessica Pan is going to find out.
When she found herself jobless and friendless, sitting in...
There was not a single chapter where I did not laugh out loud at least once. Delightfully campy and a much needed joyride. Almost like a Ferris Bueller's Day Off for Barry and Joe.
But that being said there were also some truth bombs scattered throughout the storyline.“Truth” had somehow...
Author | James Hilton |
ISBN | 0316010138 |
Mr. Hilton's classic story of an English schoolmaster.
Mr. Chipping, the classics master at Brookfield School since 1870, takes readers on a beguiling journey through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Sometimes Chips, as he is affectionately known, is an old man who dreams by the fire;...
Author | Paul Theroux |
ISBN | 0804104549 |
3 Things about Riding the Iron Rooster:
(1) land sakes, Paul Theroux does not like human beings! he seem like a very disdainful and contemptuous person in general. that disdain and contempt certainly includes the Chinese - which was an off-putting and distancing thing to experience when reading...
Author | David Elliot Cohen |
ISBN | 1885211651 |
A year off from work. A meandering, serendipitous journey around the globe with the people you love most. No mortgage, no car payments, no pressure. Though it sounds like an impossible dream for most people, one day David Cohen and his family decide to make it a reality. With his wife and three children,...
Author | Amanda Brown |
ISBN | 0751534552 |
The hilarious novel that inspired the blockbuster movie--including what's next for Elle Woods!
Elle Woods, California University senior, seems to have it all. President of Delta Gamma sorority, she's aced her major--sociopolitical jewellery design--and is on the verge of becoming...
Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah
Author | Tim Mackintosh-Smith |
ISBN | 0330491148 |
Ibn Battutah was the greatest traveller of the pre-mechanical age, journeying for 29 years and covering three times the ground Marco Polo covered. Tim Mackintosh-Smith follows the first stage of Ibn Battutah's journey, from Tangier to Constantinople. Destinations include and Islamic Butlin's...
Holidays in Hell: In Which Our Intrepid Reporter Travels to the World's Worst Places and Asks, "what's Funny about This?"
Author | P.J. O'Rourke |
ISBN | 0802137016 |
Back in the mid to late '80s when PJ O'Rourke wrote the pieces that make up Holidays in Hell, the world was a much different place: there was war in the Middle East, the threat of nuclear conflict, sectarian violence...alright, so things haven't changed all that much. Which is one reason why, after twenty...
Author | Leza Lowitz |
ISBN | 0553534769 |
A novel-in-verse about how one teen boy survives the March 2011 tsunami that devastates his coastal Japanese village.
On that fateful day, Kai loses nearly everyone and everything he cares about in the storm. When he’s offered a trip to New York to meet kids whose lives were changed by 9/11,...
Author | David Attenborough |
ISBN | 0563534230 |
Of marsupials, mice and men. Evolution, and Sir David Attenborough's 23-year sequence of books and BBC television 'Life' films, have culminated in the mammals and the explosion of awareness and intelligence. In the very short period of 100 million years - a mere blink in evolutionary time - the first...
Author | Ewan McGregor |
ISBN | 1847440533 |
Eighteen countries. Five shock absorbers. Two bikers. One amazing adventure...
After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug. And after an inspirational UNICEF visit to Africa, they knew...
Author | Audrey Schulman |
ISBN | 1609450647 |
In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across British East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he becomes the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked...
Author | Emily Gravett |
ISBN | 1509857273 |
Cyril is the only squirrel in Lake Park, and he's very lonely. Until one day he meets Pat – Pat the big, grey . . . other squirrel. Cyril and Pat have lots of adventures and fun together and Cyril is so pleased he's made a friend. But everyone is adamant that Cyril and Pat simply cannot be friends, and they...
Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Draws Her Way Across the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes
Author | Christine Mari Inzer |
A book for comic lovers and Japanophiles of all ages, Diary of a Tokyo Teen presents a unique look at modern-day Japan through a young woman's eyes.
Born in Tokyo to a Japanese mother and an American father in 1997, Christine Mari Inzer spent her early years in Japan and relocated to the United...