Books like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

If you liked Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Homo Deus

    Yuval Noah Harari · 2015

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, philosophy, technology.

    After ruling the world, humans chase upgrades and delegate feeling to systems that know patterns.

  2. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    Anthony Bourdain · 2000

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction, travel.

    Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.

  3. Greenlights

    Matthew McConaughey · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction, philosophy.

    McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.

  4. Eat, Pray, Love

    Elizabeth Gilbert · 2006

    Because shares tags: memoir, travel, nonfiction.

    Eat, Pray, Love retold: divorce, Italy for pleasure, India for practice, Bali for balance.

  5. Just Mercy

    Bryan Stevenson · 2014

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    A young lawyer defends Walter McMillian on Alabama death row and children in adult prisons.

  6. A Promised Land

    Barack Obama · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    First-volume memoir from Iowa 2008 through the 2011 bin Laden raid, crisis management and doubt.

  7. 12 Rules for Life

    Jordan B. Peterson · 2018

    Because shares tags: philosophy, nonfiction.

    Twelve essays on responsibility from posture to truth to petting cats.

  8. The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion · 2005

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    After sudden loss at dinner, Didion records the year mind keeps expecting return.

  9. Naked

    David Sedaris · 1997

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Growing up odd in Carolina, working bad jobs, and learning to watch people closely and kindly.

  10. Bad Blood

    John Carreyrou · 2018

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, technology.

    How Theranos sold finger prick miracles, faked tests, and silenced staff who knew patients were at risk.

  11. Under the Tuscan Sun

    Frances Mayes · 1996

    Because shares tags: memoir, travel.

    Frances Mayes and her husband Ed restore an abandoned villa near Cortona, learning its stone walls, markets, and seasonal cooking one room…

  12. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X · 1965

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex…

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