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Books like Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder
A delightful, mind-bending stroll through the blurry borderlands between historical fact and imaginative fiction. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonder.
- dreamlike
- curious
- disorienting
- wondrous
- 01
Motel of the mysteries
David Macaulay
A deadpan, delightfully absurd archaeological dig into the mundane artifacts of modern life.
- 02
The Clock of the Long Now
Stewart Brand
A mind-expanding invitation to step off the treadmill of the present and breathe in the stabilizing scale of deep time.
- 03
Where good ideas come from
Steven Johnson
An illuminating, cross-disciplinary journey that reveals how collaboration, serendipity, and shared spaces spark human progress.
- 04
Wonder Boys
Michael Chabon · 2006
A chaotic, weed-hazed weekend of literary crises and autumnal melancholy that ultimately finds grace in letting go.
- 05
After the fact
James West Davidson
A fascinating intellectual procedural that turns the dry archives of history into a series of gripping detective stories.
- 06
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
- 07
But What If We're Wrong?
Chuck Klosterman
A playful, mind-bending thought experiment that dismantles everything you think you know about the present by viewing it from the distant future.
- 08
The age of wonder
Holmes, Richard
A sweeping, luminous journey into the minds of the dreamers and explorers who married poetry with the scientific method.
- 09
Pastoralia
George Saunders · 2000
A hilarious, heartbreaking funhouse mirror reflecting the soul-crushing absurdities of modern work and life.
- 10
Consider the lobster, and other essays
David Foster Wallace · 2005
A dizzying, hyper-articulate plunge into the absurdities and moral anxieties of modern American life.
- 11
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Rebecca Solnit
A lyrical, associative journey that invites you to surrender to the beauty of not knowing exactly where you are.
- 12
Darwinia
Robert Charles Wilson
An Edwardian expedition into an alien wilderness that slowly unravels the very fabric of reality.
