6 best-selling biography memoir books like Wanderland by Jini Reddy

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Similar categories in Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• nature

"Innocence is a better world."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Similar categories in Lisa Randall's Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• nonfiction
• nature

"Lots of data gets collected through the latest technology today, and not all of it is about people's consumer preferences."

-Lisa Randall, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

"One reason I find anthropic reasoning troublesome is that no one yet knows what might be essential to any possible form of life or even to structures such as galaxies that might support it. I am not …"

-Lisa Randall, Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs: The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe

Similar categories in Kathleen Jamie's Findings book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• travel
• nonfiction
• essays
• nature

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's The Places in Between book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• travel
• nonfiction
• memoir

Similar categories in Emma Reyes's Memoria por correspondencia book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's The Last Continent (Discworld, #22; Rincewind #6) book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

Similar categories in Michelle Paver's Dark Matter book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

Similar categories in Katherine May's Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• nature

"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Similar categories in Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• essays

"En somme, si on voulait être cohérent, il faudrait soit lever le pied sur l'éducation des filles, soit intégrer à leur formation un sérieux entraînement à la guérilla contre le patriarcat, tout en s'…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"No obstante, algunas mujeres, vivan o no con hombres, se sientan o no llamadas por una vocación, encuentran otro modo de evitar ser engullidas por el papel de la devota sirvienta: no tener hijos; dar…"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Certaines, cependant, qu'elles vivent avec les hommes ou pas, qu'elles se sentent ou non requises par une vocation, trouvent un autre moyen d'échapper à l'engloutissement dans le rôle de la servante …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

"Il serait temps que les femmes - souvent si peu sûres d'elles, de leurs capacités, de la pertinence de ce qu'elles ont à apporter, de leur droit à une vie pour elles-mêmes - apprennent à se défendre …"

-Mona Chollet, In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's Underland: A Deep Time Journey book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• travel
• nature
• nonfiction
• natural history

Similar categories in Cal Flyn's Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• travel
• nature
• nonfiction
• natural history

"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Similar categories in Isabella Tree's Wilding book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• british literature
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature

"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• travel
• nonfiction
• memoir
• nature

"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

Similar categories in Max Porter's Lanny book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• british literature

"Which do you think is more patient, an idea or a hope?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"False things, endings. Sutenance for fools and never what they claim to be."

-Max Porter, Lanny

"What or who is supposed to manage and regulate Lanny and his gifts," he asks. "Oh fuck, it's us. Who can have children and not go completely mad?"

-Max Porter, Lanny

"Dead Papa Toothwort wakes from his standing nap an acre wide and scrapes off dream dregs of bitumen glistening thick with liquid globs of litter."

-Max Porter, Lanny

Similar categories in Elise Downing's Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• travel
• nonfiction
• memoir
• nature

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's The Wild Silence book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• british literature
• travel
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• nature

"At what point in our lives does cynicism take over from instinct? When we stop feeling the softness of rain on our face and start worrying about being wet?…When do we make that switch from being part…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

"Wat is toch dat moment in ons leven dat cynisme de overhand krijgt over intuïtie? Wanneer maakt het voelen van de zachtheid van regendruppels in ons gezicht plaats voor de bezorgdheid dat we nat word…"

-Raynor Winn, The Wild Silence

Similar categories in Cari Thomas's Threadneedle (The Language of Magic, #1) book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

"She wasn't sure what to do next. They were so close. The room so hot. Their anger alive and temporarily frozen like the sparks of only moments ago; Attis's breath fast and heavy and the scent of him …"

-Cari Thomas, Threadneedle (The Language of Magic, #1)

"She could feel his breath on her neck, the heat of him. Her legs were stuck to the floor. The dress hung on her, open. She turned around slowly. It was like losing her free will again, only this time…"

-Cari Thomas, Threadneedle (The Language of Magic, #1)

Similar categories in Lucy Worsley's Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• british literature

"She no longer followed fashion; she had created a fashion all her own."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"Surely Victoria's mental health suffered because all the men around her expected it to."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"The daily contents even of her bin 'would be more interesting than a year's file of The Times'."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

"With Bertie's illness, Victoria's return to her best self, the self she had lost in Albert, had begun."

-Lucy Worsley, Queen Victoria: Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow

Similar categories in Sharon Blackie's Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• feminism
• womens
• nonfiction
• memoir

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• british literature
• travel
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature

"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

Similar categories in Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

Similar categories in Ruth Pavey's A Wood of One's Own book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• british literature
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature

Similar categories in Tom Watson's Metronome book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

Similar categories in Liz Hyder's The Illusions book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• british literature

Similar categories in Amy Liptrot's The Outrun: A Memoir book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• travel
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• nature

"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

Similar categories in Amy-Jane Beer's The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• travel
• natural history
• nonfiction
• nature

"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"

-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

Similar categories in Jini Reddy's Wanderland book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• memoir
• british literature
• travel
• feminism
• natural history
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• essays
• womens
• nature

Similar categories in Ruth Allen's Weathering book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• nonfiction
• nature

Similar categories in Rebecca Birrell's This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century book and Jini Reddy's Wanderland

• nonfiction