Books like A Whale for the Killing
12 books with a reading profile close to A Whale for the Killing by Farley Mowat. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
memoir, narrative
Kate Beaton chronicles her time working manual labor jobs at remote mining camps in northern Alberta to pay off her student loans.
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
memoir, narrative
William Finnegan chronicles his lifelong obsession with surfing, moving from his childhood in California and Hawaii to his global travels as an adult.
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Blue Highways
memoir, narrative
After losing his teaching job and his marriage in the same day, William Least Heat-Moon outfitted a Ford Econoline van to navigate the United States exclusively via backroads—the thin blue lines on old Rand McNally maps.
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Relato de un náufrago
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Luis Alejandro Velasco, a sailor on the destroyer Caldas, falls into the Caribbean Sea after heavy cargo breaks loose during a storm.
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Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
memoir, narrative
Gabrielle Hamilton chronicles her unconventional path from a chaotic childhood in rural Pennsylvania to owning Prune, a tiny, celebrated restaurant in New York City.
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Yossarian slept here
by Erica Heller
memoir, narrative
Erica Heller’s memoir documents her upbringing as the daughter of Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, within the Apthorp apartment building in Manhattan.
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Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
by Eve Babitz
memoir, narrative
Eve Babitz presents ten interconnected narratives that document the sensory landscape of Southern California in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
memoir, narrative
Alexandra Fuller outlines her upbringing in 1970s and 80s Rhodesia, Malawi, and Zambia during a period of violent decolonization.
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Priestdaddy
memoir, narrative
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
memoir, narrative
Carrie Brownstein chronicles her development from a fan in the Pacific Northwest underground music scene to the guitarist of Sleater-Kinney.
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Just Kids
by Patti Smith
memoir, narrative
Just Kids chronicles the relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, beginning with their chance meeting in Brooklyn in 1967.
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