Books similar like The Properties of Perpetual Light

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the…

Buy this book on Amazon

Thick: And Other Essays

Smart, humorous, and strikingly original thoughts on race, beauty, money, and more—by one of today's most intrepid public intellectuals

Tressie McMillan Cottom, the writer, professor, and acclaimed aut…

Buy this book on Amazon

Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to be un-settled?” Featuring stories by:

Norris Black, Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, Phoenix Boudreau, Cherie …

Buy this book on Amazon

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unempl…

Buy this book on Amazon

Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters the Horror in Rwanda, Eastern Congo, and Palestine/Israel

Buy this book on Amazon

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

A global movement guided by love.

Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of beliefs, morals, and bodies. Systems of oppression thrive off our inability to make peace with difference an…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee's specialty is the American economy--and the mystery of why it so often fails the American public. From the financial crisis to rising student debt to collapsing public infrastructure, …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Coin

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags

The Coin follows a Palestinian woman as she pursues a dre…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of Southern California Gould School of Law. She has managed to achieve this in spite of being diagnosed …

Buy this book on Amazon

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.

There is a renaissance blooming in the…

Buy this book on Amazon

Study for Obedience

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction.

A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper …

Buy this book on Amazon

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of Orwell’s classic Politics and the English Language, but found himself grappling with deeper questions about how o…

Buy this book on Amazon

Displacement

A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps.

Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced…

Buy this book on Amazon

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

The illustrated story of a lonely alien sent to observe Earth, where he meets all sorts of creatures with all sorts of perspectives on life, love, and happiness, while learning to feel a little better…

Buy this book on Amazon

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.

On Oct 25th, after just …

Buy this book on Amazon

What You Are Looking For Is in the Library

For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel shows how the perfect book recommendation can change a reader's life.

What are you looking for?

This is th…

Buy this book on Amazon

A Tale for the Time Being

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying, but before she ends it all, Nao plans to document the life of her great-gran…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Art of Seduction

The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," said Newsweek of Robert Greene's bold, elegant, and ingenious manual of modern manipulation, The 48 La…

Buy this book on Amazon

Lies and Sorcery

Buy this book on Amazon

Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 1 - The Birth of Humankind

A hardcover edition of the first volume of the graphic adaptation of Yuval Noah Harari's smash #1 New York Times and international bestseller recommended by President Barack Obama and Bill Gates, with…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Properties of Perpetual Light

Similar books (20)