Books like The Road by Jack London

A wolf–dog, raised by Native Americans in the Yukon, evolves from fierce pack animal to a survivor in the harsh Gold Rush world of early 20th‑century North America.

Martin Eden is a 1909 American novel by Jack London that traces a young writer’s striving for literary success and romantic fulfillment amid the hardships of working‑class life.

A dystopian vision of an oligarchic tyranny rising in the United States, showcasing Jack London's explicit socialist perspective.

A lone traveler ventures across the Yukon, aided only by his dog, overconfident in his own skills and preparations.

Jack London’s 1904 classic follows Humphrey van Weyden, a law student who, after a ferry sinking, is rescued by the brutal sea‑captain Wolf Larsen and forced into a harsh survival ordeal at sea.

Jack London’s nonfiction volume offers firsthand insight into 1902 London’s East End, detailing his months of hardship in workhouses and on the streets while documenting the living conditions of the city’s 500,000 poorest residents.

Jack London reflects on his California election day experience, describing the warmth of the afternoon, the drinks he consumed, and the journey to the farm house for supper.

Jack London’s sweeping adventure follows the eponymous entrepreneur "Burning Daylight" from the Klondike Gold Rush to the fortunes and pitfalls of Wall Street.

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award--winning author of Newjack, an absorbing book about roads and their power to change the world.Roads bind our world--metaphorically and literally--transforming landscapes and the lives of the people who inhabit them. Roads have unparalleled power to impact communities, unite worlds and sunder them, and reveal the hopes and fears of those who travel them.With his marvelous eye for detail and his contagious enthusiasm, Ted Conover explores six of these key byways worldwide. In Peru, he traces the journey of a load of rare mahogany over the Andes to its origin, an untracked part of the Amazon basin soon to be traversed by a new east-west route across South America. In East Africa, he visits truckers whose travels have been linked to the worldwide spread of AIDS. In the West Bank, he monitors highway checkpoints with Israeli soldiers and then passes through them with Palestinians, witnessing the injustices and danger borne by both sides. He shuffles down a frozen riverbed with teenagers escaping their Himalayan valley to see how a new road will affect the now-isolated Indian region of Ladakh. From the passenger seat of a new Hyundai piling up the miles, he describes the exuberant upsurge in car culture as highways proliferate across China. And from inside an ambulance, he offers an apocalyptic but precise vision of Lagos, Nigeria, where congestion and chaos on freeways signal the rise of the global megacity.A spirited, urgent book that reveals the costs and benefits of being connected--how, from ancient Rome to the present, roads have played a crucial role in human life, advancing civilization even as they set it back.From the Hardcover edition.

A lively collection of Jack London’s early Yukon short stories, offering vivid adventures of gold miners, frontier struggles, and the rough‑tumble charm of the Canadian north.