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24 alternatives to Slouching Towards Bethlehem
A collection of essays by the inimitable Joan Didion.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Slouching Towards Bethlehem launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Joan Didion's classic memoir about grief and loss
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Joan Didion's stunning and heartbreaking meditation on grief
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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Jeanette Winterson’s retelling of Shakespeares Winter’s Tale
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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An insightful collection of aphorisms
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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My Struggle▲56Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical phenomenon
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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From the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being"
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of letters on art, love and solitude
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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An examination of the modern millennial psyche like no other
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A moving and candid account of Palestine/Israel
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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National Book Award nomination for Nonfiction 2015
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Mapping cities of sound, melancholia and the afterlife
2016 · influxpress.com · its alternatives →
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Thoughts on things found and lost and hoped for
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The legendary writer’s first collection in more than 10 yrs
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Anthony Shadid's moving reflections on war, family, hope
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A study in human nature
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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