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24 books recommended for fans of Paper Trail by Michael Dorris, tied together by themes of Essays and Literary Collections.

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Women Make the Best Friends A Celebration — Lois Wyse

Women Make the Best Friends A Celebration

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Confabulations — John Berger

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Charles Mackay

Some Extraordinary Popular Delusions

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The Notebook Of Elbert Hubbard Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings And Preachments — Elbert Hubbard

The Notebook Of Elbert Hubbard Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings And Preachments

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The Secret Currency of Love The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships — Hilary Black

The Secret Currency of Love The Unabashed Truth About Women, Money, and Relationships

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Alarms and Discursions — G. K. Chesterton

Alarms and Discursions

G. K. Chesterton

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The Logic of Discovery — R. D. Carmichael

The Logic of Discovery

R. D. Carmichael

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

The Hardest Part A Centenary Critical Edition — G a Studdert Kennedy

G. A. Studdert-Kennedy

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Portrait Inside My Head Essays — Phillip Lopate

Portrait Inside My Head Essays

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Some Notes Of The History Of The Parish Of Whitchurch, Oxon (1895) — John Slatter

Some Notes Of The History Of The Parish Of Whitchurch, Oxon (1895)

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Organ Grinder A Classical Education Gone Astray — Alan Fishbone

Organ Grinder A Classical Education Gone Astray

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Maurice and Maralyn A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story — Sophie Elmhirst

Maurice and Maralyn A Whale, a Shipwreck, a Love Story

Sophie Elmhirst

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

On Liberty — John Stuart Mill

On Liberty — John Stuart Mill

JOHN STUART. MILL

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Hotel America Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle — Lewis H. Lapham

Hotel America Scenes in the Lobby of the Fin-de-siècle

Lewis H. Lapham

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Mein Kampf The Full German and English Text — Adolf Hitler

Mein Kampf The Full German and English Text

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Present-Day Conservatism And Liberalism, Within Biblical Lines A Concise And Comprehensive Exhibit (1911) — James Glentworth Butler

Present-Day Conservatism And Liberalism, Within Biblical Lines A Concise And Comprehensive Exhibit (1911)

James Glentworth Butler

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Modern Love, Revised and Updated True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption — Daniel Jones

Modern Love, Revised and Updated True Stories of Love, Loss, and Redemption

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Buddhist Acts of Compassion — Pamela Bloom

Buddhist Acts of Compassion

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

A North Country Life Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife — Sydney Lea

A North Country Life Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

Paradise of Bombs — Scott Russell Sanders

Paradise of Bombs

Scott Russell Sanders

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 — Sid Holt

The Best American Magazine Writing 2021

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The Conspiracy against the Human Race A Contrivance of Horror — Thomas Ligotti

The Conspiracy against the Human Race A Contrivance of Horror

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The Problem of Evil and Sufferings A Solution and the Antidote — Jeremiah Zimmerman

The Problem of Evil and Sufferings A Solution and the Antidote

Jeremiah Zimmerman

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style, the Elements of Taste and Criticism; With Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence Illustrated by Appropriate Examples Selected Chieflyrom the Britis — Alexander Jamieson

A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature Comprehending the Principles of Language and Style, the Elements of Taste and Criticism; With Rules for the Study of Composition and Eloquence Illustrated by Appropriate Examples Selected Chieflyrom the Britis

Alexander Jamieson

Themes: Essays • Literary Collections

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Essays, Literary Collections — the same threads that run through Paper Trail by Michael Dorris. Among the authors featured: Lois Wyse, John Berger, Charles Mackay, Elbert Hubbard, and others.

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