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Books like Consider the Lobster
Loved Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from essays, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Sharp, cool essays on 1960s America; the book that set the standard for the personal essay.
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The Fire Next Time
Two searing essays on race, faith and America; as urgent now as when they were written.
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3
Men Explain Things to Me
The essay collection that helped popularise a now-famous idea; sharp feminist criticism.
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Feel Free
Wide-ranging essays on culture, books and life; smart, generous and curious.
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Plein Ciel
Wings is the story of a young woman who fights all the odds to fulfil her dreams. From her family's dusty farmland airstrip near Chicago, Cassie O'Malley would look at the planes shimmering in the moo
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Louise Bourgeois
Though known primarily for her sculpture, Louise Bourgeois has displayed a lifelong passion for drawing and considers it to be essential to her oeuvre. This exceptional book is the first to combine ov
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Conformity and conflict
""Seeks to teach students the importance of culture and its influence on human life. By including examples of Western, North American cultures, the text makes cultural understanding and comparison mor
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Our bodies, ourselves
Discusses the many roles of women and the choices open to them. Includes detailed treatment of feminine hygiene.
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De Proust a Camus
This book is the ideal introduction to modern French literature.
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Historias de cronopios y de famas
"The Instruction Manual," the first chapter, is an absurd assortment of tasks and items dissected in an instruction-manual format. "Unusual Occupations," the second chapter, describes the obsessions a