Navigator of the Flood (1000 Books to Read)

He assumed a lot about what Noah was thinking and feeling. He nails how Noah might have felt as he built the ark, knowing that the people around him (minus his family) would perish in a big flood.

The whole drunkenness thing was pretty weird. But it did cause me to think about some things. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

In his lifetime, Mario Brelich published only three books, each a distinctive, imaginative exploration of a biblical theme, and each a discovery of the first order. In Navigator of the Flood, Brelich’s ingenuity is set to the task of explaining the drunkenness of Noah, the episode that concludes the ninth chapter of Genesis and stands as a peculiar coda to the story of the great flood. The result is a playful, trenchant, inspired, and funny meditation—a philosophical essay in the form of a novel—on the deep meanings we can still find hidden in the dusty folds of a familiar tale