Books like Calypso by David Sedaris

Bill Bryson humorously chronicles a two–person hike along the Appalachian Trail, mixing lively anecdotes with insightful looks at its history, ecology, and the people who live along the route.

David Sedaris, fresh from New York and settled in Paris, delivers a collection of sharp, funny essays – from his battle with a harsh French teacher to family quirks and cultural mishaps.

A collection of David Sedaris essays that humorously traverse continents, from French dental quirks to Australian kookaburras, highlighting the absurdities of travel and everyday life.

In this sharp, humorous essay collection, David Sedaris turns everyday moments—from family vacations to simple chores—into keen observations that reveal the absurdity and intimacy lurking beneath ordinary life.

A witty, nonfiction voyage that follows Eric Weiner from the U.S. to Iceland, India, Switzerland, Qatar, Bhutan, and Asheville as he seeks the source of happiness, blending travel, psychology, science and humor.

A lively collection of James Thurber’s sharp, witty short stories, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker, showcasing his keen humor about everyday life and human nature.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

In Maine’s secluded Simpson House, Ian Donovan and Caly St. John hunt the truth behind a brutal 28‑year‑old mass murder, only to uncover horrors far beyond their wildest fears.