18 books like Wild

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Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë · 1846 · ★ 3.9 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. Shares Community pick

Journey Without Maps Graham Greene · 1936 · 249p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This is an account of a trip Greene made in 1935 with his cousin, Barbara Greene, through the previously unexplored interior of Liberia. It was an extremely uncomfortable journey, with Greene falling seriously ill halfway through the trip. Possibly as a result of this he also made a point of noting the many illnesses with which the local inhabitants were assailed, particularly malaria and… Shares Description and travel, Travel

The Lands of the Saracen Bayard Taylor · 1854 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging Shares Description and travel, Travel with this book.

Inscribed Identities

Inscribed Identities Joan Ramon Resina · 2019 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Biographies as Topic, Literary, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

The high window Raymond Chandler · 1942 · ★ 3.7 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind of detective: a moral man in an amoral world. California in the 1940s and 1950s is as beautiful as a ripe fruit and rotten to the core, and Marlowe must struggle to retain his integrity amidst the corruption he encounters daily. In The High Window, Marlowe starts out on the trail of a single stolen coin and ends up… Shares American, Literary Criticism, General, Biography & Memoir

Camping for Boys H. W. Gibson · 2007 · 296p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares American, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Anatomy of a Robot Despina Kakoudaki · 2014 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares Literary, Literary Criticism, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Tent-life in Siberia and adventures among the Koraks and other tribes in Kamchatka and northern Asia George Kennan · 1870 · 425p · ≈ 14h · Challenging An account of a period living in Siberia in pursuit of a plan to carry a telegraph line across land to Europe through Siberia in consequence of the failure of efforts to carry a telegraph line to Europe under the Atlantic. Shares Description and travel, Travel

Locating transnational ideals Walter Goebel · 2010 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares American, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Life Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe

Life Writing from the Margins in Zimbabwe Oliver Nyambi · 2019 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Biographies as Topic, Literary, Literary Criticism, Biography & Memoir with this book.

Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells · 1872 · ★ 3.2 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Challenging From the book:They first met in Boston, but the match was made in Europe, where they afterwards saw each other; whither, indeed, he followed her; and there the match was also broken off. Why it was broken off, and why it was renewed after a lapse of years, is part of quite a long love-story, which I do not think myself qualified to rehearse, distrusting my fitness for a sustained or involved… Shares American Authors, Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir

Heaven's reach David Brin · 1998 · ★ 4.0 · 582p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Winner of the Nebula and Hugo Awards, David Brin brings his bestselling Uplift series to a magnificent conclusion with his most imaginative and powerful novel to date--the shattering epic of a universe poised on the brink of revelation...or annihilation.The brutal enemy that has relentlessly pursued them for centuries has arrived. Now the fugitive settlers of Jijo--both human and alien--brace for… Shares American, Literary Criticism, General

Murdo's War Alan Temperley · 1990 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Shares Literary, Literary Criticism, Travel, General with this book.

S.J. Perelman

S.J. Perelman Steven H. Gale · 1985 · 182p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares American, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Tom Sawyer, Detective Mark Twain · 1897 · ★ 3.5 · 104p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Tom Sawyer, Detective follows Twain's popular novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Tom Sawyer Abroad. In this novel, Tom turns detective, trying to solve a murder. Twain plays with and celebrates the detective novel, wildly popular at the time. This novel, like the others, is told through the first-person narrative of Huck Finn. Shares American Authors, Biography & Memoir, Adventure

From Puritanism to postmodernism Richard Ruland · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 470p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares American, Literary Criticism, General with this book.

Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain · 1883 · ★ 3.9 · 273p · ≈ 9h · Challenging At once a romantic history of a mighty river, an autobiographical account of Twains early steamboat days, and a storehouse of humorous anecdotes and sketches, here is the raw material from which Mark Twain wrote his finest novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Shares American Authors, Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir

The Cruise of the Dazzler Jack London · 1902 · 137p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Set in old San Francisco Bay, this is a story of a young man who becomes involved with "oyster pirates" who make raids on commercial oyster beds, used their boats as convenient transport to rob business along the San Francisco bay at the turn of the century. The life outlined is one that Jack personally lived when as a youth he came to be regarded as one of the most dangerous of the bay pirates. Shares American Authors, Description and travel, Travel, Biography & Memoir

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