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What to read after Joyride by Susan Orlean: 24 titles sharing themes of Journalists, Professionals & Academics, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides, and Memoirs, chosen for mood and literary overlap.

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Chasing the Story The Stories and Events that Shaped the Life of a Veteran News Reporter — David J. Whisenant

Chasing the Story The Stories and Events that Shaped the Life of a Veteran News Reporter

David J. Whisenant

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Dancing in the Streets The Classic Glasgow Memoir — Clifford Hanley

Dancing in the Streets The Classic Glasgow Memoir

Clifford Hanley

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Campaigns of Curiosity — Elizabeth L. Banks

Campaigns of Curiosity

Elizabeth L. Banks

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Life of Frances Power Cobbe — Frances Power Cobbe

Life of Frances Power Cobbe

Frances Power Cobbe

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

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The World According to Joan Didion

Evelyn McDonnell

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Citizen Reporters S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America — Stephanie Gorton

Citizen Reporters S.S. McClure, Ida Tarbell, and the Magazine That Rewrote America

Stephanie Gorton

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

The World She Edited Katharine S. White at the New Yorker — Amy Reading

The World She Edited Katharine S. White at the New Yorker

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

The War Correspondents The Incredible Stories of the Brave Men and Women Who Covered the Fight Against Hitler’s Germany — Keith Warren Lloyd

The War Correspondents The Incredible Stories of the Brave Men and Women Who Covered the Fight Against Hitler’s Germany

Keith Warren Lloyd

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

William Winston Seaton of the National Intelligencer — Josephine Seaton

William Winston Seaton of the National Intelligencer

Josephine Seaton

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Writing Pad — O. D

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Así Veo Las Cosas: Lo Que Nunca Te Conté / The Way I See Things: What I Never Told You — Jorge Ramos

Así Veo Las Cosas: Lo Que Nunca Te Conté / The Way I See Things: What I Never Told You

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Greyhound A Memoir — Joanna Pocock

Greyhound A Memoir

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Memoirs

Scissors and My Suitcase — Jayne McCarthy

Scissors and My Suitcase

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Memoirs

The Queen of Grants From Teacher to Grant Writer to CEO — Libby Hikind

The Queen of Grants From Teacher to Grant Writer to CEO

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Memoirs

The French Ingredient Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time; A Memoir — Jane Bertch

The French Ingredient Making a Life in Paris One Lesson at a Time; A Memoir

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Memoirs

A Season for That Lost and Found in the Other Southern France — Steve Hoffman

A Season for That Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Writing

Anthony Bourdain Unloaded The Uncommon Wisdom of a Legendary Provocateur — Juliana Sharaf

Anthony Bourdain Unloaded The Uncommon Wisdom of a Legendary Provocateur

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Writing

The Anthony Bourdain Reader New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing — Anthony Bourdain

The Anthony Bourdain Reader New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing

Anthony Bourdain

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Writing

After the North Pole A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice — Erling Kagge

After the North Pole A Story of Survival, Mythmaking, and Melting Ice

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Writing

Wolverine Tracks On the Trail of Memory and Meaning in the Wild — Dag O. Hessen

Wolverine Tracks On the Trail of Memory and Meaning in the Wild

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Writing

A Thousand Feasts Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts — Nigel Slater

A Thousand Feasts Small Moments of Joy … a Memoir of Sorts

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Writing

Travels with Charley in Search of America (Penguin Audio Classics) — John Steinbeck

Travels with Charley in Search of America (Penguin Audio Classics)

Themes: Professionals & Academics • Writing, Research & Publishing Guides • Writing

When the Going Was Good An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines — Graydon Carter

When the Going Was Good An Editor’s Adventures During the Last Golden Age of Magazines

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Memoirs

Susani — Louis Becke

Themes: Journalists • Professionals & Academics • Memoirs

If Joyride by Susan Orlean is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Journalists, Professionals & Academics, Writing, Research & Publishing Guides and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by David J. Whisenant, Clifford Hanley, Elizabeth L. Banks, Frances Power Cobbe, and others.

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