9 must-read literature books like Walden and Other Writings by Peter Matthiessen, Henry David Thoreau

Walden and Other Writings

By: Peter Matthiessen , Henry David Thoreau

4.26

Format: None pages,

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1. Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

By: Toni Morrison

4.32

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"What solicited my attention was whether the cultural associations of jazz were as important to Cardinal’s “possession"

-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

"...Being simply illustrations, of how each of us reads, becomes engaged in and watches what is being read all at the same time."

-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

"Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und m…"

-Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

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2. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

By: Annie Dillard

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more

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  • classics
  • memoir
  • philosophy
  • 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

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3. Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)

By: Janet Evanovich

3.82

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Whether it’s monkey business, funny business or getting down to business, Janet Evanovich's Lizzy a… read more

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"The only normal people are people you don't know very well." Diesel "That's a quote from a famous person," I told him. Lizzy Tucker"

-Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)

"If I could just get Broom to cooperate, we could fly, Glo said. Then we wouldn't have to worry about traffic. Harry Potter didn't have to worry about traffic. You relize Harry Potter isn't real, righ…"

-Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)

"Pbbtlt. "It smells like ham, Glo said. It must be Hatchet" Hatchet moved out of the shadows. "My intent was to capture and torture for information, but you have made my job easy. I now know the clue …"

-Janet Evanovich, Wicked Business (Lizzy & Diesel, #2)

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4. What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters, and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything

By: Rob Bell

4.32

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Rob Bell, the beloved author of Love Wins and What We Talk About When We Talk About God, goes deep … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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5. The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

By: Paul Kingsnorth , Wendell Berry

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a time when our relationship to the natural world is ruled by the violence and greed of unbridle… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
"We are in the habit of contention—against the world, against each other, against ourselves. It is not from ourselves that we will learn to be better than we are."

-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

"Our understandable wish to preserve the planet must somehow be reduced to the scale of our competence - that is to wish to preserve all of its humble house - holds and neighbourhoods."

-Paul Kingsnorth, The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

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6. Frida Kahlo: 1907-1954 Pain and Passion

By: Andrea Kettenmann

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Un retrato de una artista, sobre todo una artista.(Portrait of an artist, always an artist, above a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) by Edward Abbey

7. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

By: Edward Abbey

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • nature
"The night. The stars. The river."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"I piss on you from a considerable height."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

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8. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

By: Ernest Hemingway

4.29

Format: 650 pages, Paperback

THE ONLY COMPLETE COLLECTION BY THE NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR In this definitive collection of E… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
"My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"If you had stars inside your brain cells, you'd probably understand what I am talking about."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

"I do not need to get used to your silence. I already know it. I quite possibly love all of it."

-Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

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9. Collected Poems

By: Dylan Thomas

3.80

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomascontains poems that Thomas personally decided best represented h… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
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10. Fear and Trembling

By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian and religious author interested in human psy… read more

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  • philosophy
  • classics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice by Shunryu Suzuki, Huston Smith, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker

11. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

By: Shunryu Suzuki , Huston Smith , Trudy Dixon , Richard Baker

4.21

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.” So begins… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Waves are the practice of the water."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Sincerity itself is the railroad track."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"You do not say, “This is enlightenment,"

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

"Zen practice is to open up our small mind."

-Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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12. Selected Stories

By: Anton Chekhov , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the highly acclaimed translators of War and Peace, Doctor Z… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
Cover of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Roberto González Echevarría, John Rutherford

13. Don Quixote

By: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra , Roberto González Echevarría , John Rutherford

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Don Quixote has become so entranced by reading chivalric romances, that he determines to become a k… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
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14. The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health

By: Justin Sonnenburg , Erica Sonnenburg , Andrew Weil

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

The groundbreaking science behind the surprising source of good health Stanford University's Justin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

By: Robert D. Putnam

3.77

Format: 67 pages,

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  • nonfiction
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16. Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

By: John O'Donohue

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Discover the Celtic Circle of Belonging. John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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17. A Moveable Feast

By: Ernest Hemingway

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Begun in the autumn of 1957 and published posthumously in 1964, Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast… read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Alfred Kazin , Alfred R. Ferguson , Jean Ferguson Carr

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, was a great writer who turned the essay into a … read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

19. Walden and Other Writings

By: Peter Matthiessen , Henry David Thoreau

4.26

Format: None pages,

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  • classics
  • memoir
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
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20. The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Mary Oliver , Brooks Atkinson

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

Introduction by Mary Oliver Commentary by Henry James, Robert Frost, Matthew Arnold, Oliver Wendell… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays

21. The Science of Enlightenment: Teachings and Meditations for Awakening Through Self-Investigation

By: Shinzen Young

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Audio CD

What is enlightenment? Is it a myth or is it real? On The Science of Enlightenment, you will learn … read more

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22. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

By: Douglas Coupland

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brough… read more

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23. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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24. The Expendable Man

By: Dorothy B. Hughes

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

The critic HRF Keating chose The Expendable Manas one of his Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books. '… read more

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25. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

By: Bartolomé de las Casas , Anthony Pagden , None

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. A… read more

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26. Nature and Selected Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson , Larzer Ziff

2.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

Through his writing and his own personal philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson unburdened his young count… read more

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27. Henry David Thoreau: A Life

By: None

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Walden. Yesterday I came here to live." That entry from the journal of Henry David Thoreau, and th… read more

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28. Self-Reliance and Other Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Essayist, poet, and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) propounded a transcendental ideali… read more

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29. Be Here Now

By: Ram Dass

4.33

Format: 116 pages, Kindle Edition

The enhanced edition of Be Here Now Two guided video meditations, 30 minutes in length * Twenty mi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Be here now."

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"Be here, now!"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

"As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down th…"

-Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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30. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

By: Sogyal Rinpoche

4.21

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

“A magnificent achievement. In its power to touch the heart, to awaken consciousness, [The Tibetan … read more

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  • classics
  • nonfiction
"Real devotion is an unbroken receptivity to the truth. Real devotion is rooted in an awed and reverent gratitude, but one that is lucid, grounded, and intelligent."

-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

"We are fragmented into so many different aspects. We don´t know who we really are, or what aspects of ourselves we should identify with or believe in. So many contradictory voices, dictates, and feel…"

-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

"Death is a vast mystery, but there are two things we can layabout it: It is absolutely certain that we will die, and it is uncertain when or how we will die. The only surety we have, then, is this un…"

-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

"Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote…"

-Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

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31. Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life

By: Dacher Keltner

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Awe is mysterious. How do we begin to quantify the goose bumps we feel when we see the Grand Canyon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

12 best-selling classics books like Walden and Other Writings by Peter Matthiessen, Henry David Thoreau

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

Edward Abbey

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Collected Poems

Dylan Thomas

3.80

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14 Top classics books like The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary Oliver, Brooks Atkinson

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The Minister's Black Veil

Nathaniel Hawthorne

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

4.16

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Walking

Henry David Thoreau

4.26

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Benito Cereno

Herman Melville , Wyn Kelley

3.60

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