Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
By: Kevin Begos
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A chance encounter with an obscure vintage made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos to seek…
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1. A Really Big Lunch: Meditations on Food and Life from the Roving Gourmand
By: Jim Harrison
3.74
Format: None pages,
"[A] culinary combo plate of Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Schnabel, and Sam Peckinp… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
2. A History of the World in 6 Glasses
By: Tom Standage
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Throughout human history, certain drinks have done much more than just quench thirst. As Tom Standa… read more
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- food and drink
- nonfiction
- food
- history
3. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste
By: Bianca Bosker
3.79
Format: None pages, Hardcover
For readers of Anthony Bourdain, Susan Orlean, and Mary Roach, a surprising, entertaining and hilar… read more
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- wine
- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- science
4. La Templanza
By: María Dueñas
4.40
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Nada hacia suponer a Mauro Larrea que la fortuna que levanto tras anos de teson y arrojo se le derr… read more
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5. Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
By: Padma Lakshmi
3.55
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Atetraces the arc … read more
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6. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
By: Naomi Klein
3.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more
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7. Decanting a Murder
By: Nadine Nettmann
4.41
Format: None pages, Paperback
Can Katie Solve a Case of Chateau Murdeaux? Katie Stillwell focuses on two things in her life: work… read more
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8. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
By: Siddharth Kara
4.37
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"Now you understand how people like us work?"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
9. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
10. Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
By: Matt Parker
4.11
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
An international bestseller The book-length answer to anyone who ever put their hand up in math… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"If a new system is implemented, humans can be very resourceful when finding new ways to make mistakes."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Even when the data has made it into a database, it is not safe... which brings us, finally, to Microsoft Excel."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"Now you can safely reply and say that nothing in the Gregorian calendar can happen less frequently than once every four hundred years. JUST FOR FUN."-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
"It's times like this when the age of the universe becomes a useful unit of measurement: 64-bit Unix time will last until twenty-one times the age of the universe from now - until (assuming we don't m…"-Matt Parker, Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors
11. Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
By: Marina Dyachenko
4.02
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Ukrainian novel—a br… read more
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"Think of what you told me,"-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
"All girls are mad. Each in her own way."-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
"Silence . . . Silence is what, Samokhina?"-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
"This institution of higher education had no such concept as mercy."-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)
12. When McKinsey Comes to Town
By: Walt Bogdanich
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town
13. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
By: Janet Skeslien Charles
4.02
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more
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14. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
By: Patrik Svensson
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
15. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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- nonfiction
"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
16. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
By: Patrick Bringley
4.07
Format: 240 pages, ebook
A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
17. Wine Folly: Magnum Edition: The Master Guide
By: Madeline Puckette
4.57
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNERThe expanded wine guide from the creators of Wine Folly, packed with new in… read more
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- wine
- cookbooks
- food
- nonfiction
- food and wine
- food and drink
18. From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
By: Arthur C. Brooks
3.94
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard p… read more
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- nonfiction
19. Florida
By: Lauren Groff
3.77
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its lan… read more
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"All things nauseating and deadly are American, apparently. Well, okay, she can't disagree."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself."-Lauren Groff, Florida
"She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option."-Lauren Groff, Florida
20. Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World
By: Cheuk Kwan
3.57
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brough… read more
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- food
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21. Making Sense of Wine
By: Matt Kramer
3.61
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
The paperback edition of this highly praised wine classic includes a new preface and an all-new cha… read more
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22. Tasting the Past: The Science of Flavor and the Search for the Origins of Wine
By: Kevin Begos
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A chance encounter with an obscure vintage made near Jerusalem leads journalist Kevin Begos to seek… read more
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- food history
- history
- cookbooks
- food
- nonfiction
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- science
23. Godforsaken Grapes: A Slightly Tipsy Journey through the World of Strange, Obscure, and Underappreciated Wine
By: Jason Wilson
4.10
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
There are nearly 1,400 known varieties of wine grapes in the world—from auxerrois to zierfandler—bu… read more
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- nonfiction
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- history
24. The Redemption of Time (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #4)
By: Baoshu
3.63
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in the universe of the New York Times bestselling Three-Body Problem trilogy, The Redemption of… read more
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25. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
By: Fuchsia Dunlop
4.26
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more
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- nonfiction
- food
- history
"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food
26. The Winemakers
By: Jan Moran
4.02
Format: 378 pages, Paperback
A young winemaker. A devastating family secret. A truth that could destroy the man she loves. **Fro… read more
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27. Abolition. Feminism. Now.
By: Angela Y. Davis
4.31
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
An urgent, vital manifesto of intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism, from leading… read more
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- history
28. Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities
By: John King
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A two-time Pulitzer finalist explores the story of American urban design through San Francisco’s ic… read more
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- history
29. The Sommelier's Atlas of Taste: A Field Guide to the Great Wines of Europe
By: Rajat Parr
4.46
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the prestigious André Simon Drink Book Award The first definitive reference book to desc… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- food and wine
30. Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much
By: Natalie MacLean
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful memoir of how one woman resurrects her life and career in the gla… read more
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- history
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- food and wine
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"I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories."-Natalie MacLean, Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much
"The marketing message is that women need to have a reason to drink, whether it’s girls’ night, a fancy occasion, or just getting through another day of exhaustion. It’s implied that we need permissio…"-Natalie MacLean, Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much
