Books like Blue Highways
12 books with a reading profile close to Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
Also contemplative · 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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2
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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3
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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4
Relato de un náufrago
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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5
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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6
Chronicles, Volume One
by Bob Dylan
Also contemplative · memoir, narrative
Bob Dylan sidesteps the traditional chronological life story to focus on three specific periods of his career: his 1961 arrival in Greenwich Village, the 1970 recording sessions for New Morning, and the 1989 production…
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7
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Also contemplative · 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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8
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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9
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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10
A Man's Place
by Annie Ernaux
Also contemplative · memoir, narrative
Annie Ernaux recounts her father's life, from his childhood as a Norman farm laborer to his job in a factory and later running a café and grocery.
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11
When All Is Said
by Anne Griffin
Also contemplative · memoir, narrative
Maurice Hannigan, an elderly Irish farmer, sits in a pub in a small town one evening and orders five drinks, one for each person who has been important in his life.
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12
The End of Eddy
Also contemplative · memoir, narrative
Eddy Bellegueule grows up in a poor village in northern France, in a family where men are expected to be tough and unemployment and alcohol are common.
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