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Books like Palm Sunday
A chaotic, deeply human scrapbook of memories, jokes, and hard-won wisdom from a beloved literary uncle. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Palm Sunday.
- intimate
- bittersweet
- reflective
- nostalgic
- 01
Fates Worse than Death
Kurt Vonnegut
A darkly funny, fragmented conversation with a brilliant mind trying to make sense of a world hell-bent on destroying itself.
- 02
Armageddon in Retrospect
Kurt Vonnegut
A bittersweet, darkly funny, and deeply humanist reflection on the absurdities of war and the fragility of peace.
- 03
Grace (Eventually)
Anne Lamott
A funny, bittersweet, and poignant exploration of faith and the wild adventure of being fully alive.
- 04
Born standing up
Steve Martin · 2007
A quiet, analytical masterclass on the grueling, lonely mechanics of becoming a legend and the grace of walking away.
- 05
The Last Lecture
Randy Pausch · 2008
A pragmatic, joyful masterclass in living fully, delivered from the threshold of mortality.
- 06
The art of memoir
Mary Karr
An illuminating and cathartic exploration of how we shape our memories and how our memories shape us.
- 07
Mortality
Christopher Hitchens
A razor-sharp, unsentimental dispatch from the borderlands of terminal illness, written by a fierce intellect refusing to go quietly.
- 08
Hitch-22
Christopher Hitchens
A smoky, late-night masterclass in intellectual combat and literary friendship, delivered by a fiercely unapologetic raconteur.
- 09
Consider This
Chuck Palahniuk
A gritty, generous masterclass in storytelling delivered from a barstool by a literary provocateur.
- 10
Napalm & silly putty
George Carlin · 2001
A relentless, razor-sharp barrage of linguistic acrobatics and cynical observations about the absurdity of the human condition.
- 11
I. Asimov
Isaac Asimov
A warm, conversational sit-down with one of the twentieth century's most prolific and expansive minds.
- 12
Every love story is a ghost story
D. T. Max
An intimate, painful, and deeply sincere portrait of a brilliant but tormented literary mind.
