12 Top memoir books like An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography by Jamie Beck

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An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

By: Jamie Beck

4.38

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Let Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, pa…

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Cover of At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life by Jennifer L. Scott

1. At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life

By: Jennifer L. Scott

3.74

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Approach life at home the Madame Chic way: a beautiful, illustrated toolbox of tips and ideas for o… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer L. Scott's At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • nonfiction
  • france
  • memoir
"But even though our old home had physically seen better days, I knew in that moment that we had taken the soul of that house with us to our new home. And as I branched out and left our small town, I'…"

-Jennifer L. Scott, At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life

"Driving to see my childhood home was very significant for me. It taught me the importance of home, especially to children. Your home is more than just a shelter. It is more than just a place to showc…"

-Jennifer L. Scott, At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life

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2. A Year in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more

Similar categories in Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • memoir
  • travel
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction

3. Joy for Beginners

By: Erica Bauermeister

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

At an intimate, festive dinner party in Seattle, six women gather to celebrate their friend Kate's … read more

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4. The Lost Art of Mixing

By: Erica Bauermeister

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

National bestselling author Erica Bauermeister returns to the enchanting world of The School of Ess… read more

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5. What Now?

By: Ann Patchett

4.67

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestsell… read more

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6. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

By: La Leche League International , None

3.17

Format: None pages,

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7. Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

By: Allison Bornstein

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Define your style and use fashion as a tool for self-discovery  using the Three-Word Method and AB … read more

Similar categories in Allison Bornstein's Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • nonfiction
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8. Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life

By:

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Embrace the joy of Paris wherever you live with American expat Ajiri Aki, founder of the French lif… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • memoir
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9. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • travel
  • food
  • france
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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10. Nails and Eyes

By: Kaori Fujino

3.43

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

Tense, subtly disturbing Japanese literary horror perfect for fans of The Memory Police, Tender is … read more

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"As a woman, Shoko is extremely petite, but as a heart, she is wondrously large."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"Maybe she suddenly had a deathwish, the way some people fall in love at first sight."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"There were always going to be people who loved you and people who hated you, no matter what you did, so why let anything trouble you?"

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

"You felt that your life would always be this way. Not as one day going by, and then another, but life as an ever-expanding single day. And yet, time did go by."

-Kaori Fujino, Nails and Eyes

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11. Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

By: Ina Garten

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • America’s favorite home cook presents delicious, crowd-pleasing, go-… read more

Similar categories in Ina Garten's Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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12. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • memoir
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13. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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14. The XX Brain

By: Lisa Mosconi

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"In The XX Brain, Lisa meticulously guides us in the ways we can both nourish and protect ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Mosconi's The XX Brain book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • nonfiction
Cover of Sacred Spaces: Everyday People and the Beautiful Homes Created Out of Their Trials, Healing, and Victories by Carley Summers

15. Sacred Spaces: Everyday People and the Beautiful Homes Created Out of Their Trials, Healing, and Victories

By: Carley Summers

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous photography collection, featuring home interiors and profiles of the people who have tra… read more

Similar categories in Carley Summers's Sacred Spaces: Everyday People and the Beautiful Homes Created Out of Their Trials, Healing, and Victories book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • nonfiction
Cover of The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch

16. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

Similar categories in Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
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17. House Lessons: Renovating a Life

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ERICA BAUERMEISTER COMES A MEMOIR ABOUT THE POWER OF HOME AN… read more

Similar categories in Erica Bauermeister's House Lessons: Renovating a Life book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. The Sicilian Inheritance

By: Jo Piazza

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted i… read more

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19. An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

By: Jamie Beck

4.38

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Let Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, pa… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • art
  • memoir
  • travel
  • photography
  • art and photography
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
Cover of But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films by Kristen  Lopez

20. But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films

By: Kristen Lopez

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

For film buffs and literature lovers alike, Turner Classic Movies presents an essential guide to 52… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from The Lost Kitchen by Erin French

21. Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from The Lost Kitchen

By: Erin French

4.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Big Heart Little Stove is your new go-to inspiration for cooking thoughtful and meaningful, yet ref… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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22. Finding Muchness: How to Add More Life to Life

By: Kobi Yamada

4.69

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

What is muchness? And how do you find it? Muchness is the full-hearted abundance of hope, joy, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

23. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home by Danielle Postel-Vinay

24. Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home

By: Danielle Postel-Vinay

3.64

Format: 288 pages, ebook

French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practi… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • memoir
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25. My Four Seasons in France: A Year of the Good Life

By: Janine Marsh

4.10

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

A little over ten years ago, Janine Marsh and her husband Mark gave up their city jobs in London to… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
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26. The Way of the Fearless Writer

By: Beth Kempton

4.41

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Beth Kempton's The Way of the Fearless Writer is a mindful approach to the writing life, based on B… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. Together

By: Luke Adam Hawker

4.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A gentle and philosophical look at the events of 2020, and how we can deal with the challenges that… read more

Similar categories in Luke Adam Hawker's Together book and Jamie Beck's An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

  • art
Cover of My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act by Anna Kloots

28. My Own Magic: A Reappearing Act

By: Anna Kloots

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Despite what appeared to be a glamorous existence full of globetrotting adventures, behind the scen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Home in Bloom: Lessons for Creating Floral Beauty in Every Room by Ariella Chezar

29. Home in Bloom: Lessons for Creating Floral Beauty in Every Room

By: Ariella Chezar

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, inspiring look at the role of flowers and plants in interior design through the stunning, … read more

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Cover of The Flowers of Provence by Jamie Beck

30. The Flowers of Provence

By: Jamie Beck

4.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning photographer Jamie Beck displays her stunning p… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Forest Feast Road Trip: Simple Vegetarian Recipes Inspired by My Travels through California by Erin Gleeson

31. The Forest Feast Road Trip: Simple Vegetarian Recipes Inspired by My Travels through California

By: Erin Gleeson

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Erin Gleeson, the New York Times bestselling author of the beloved Forest Feast, presents a love le… read more

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  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

9 best-selling france books like An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography by Jamie Beck

Transform Your Habits

At Home with Madame Chic: Becoming a Connoisseur of Daily Life

Jennifer L. Scott

3.74

Transform Your Habits

A Year in Provence

Peter Mayle

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Paris Novel

Ruth Reichl

3.84

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20 Best nonfiction books like Big Heart Little Stove: Bringing Home Meals & Moments from The Lost Kitchen by Erin French

Transform Your Habits

The Pioneer Woman Cooks―Dinner's Ready!: 112 Fast and Fabulous Recipes for Slightly Impatient Home Cooks (The Pioneer Woman Cooks, 8)

Ree Drummond

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Cookie That Changed My Life: And More Than 100 Other Classic Cakes, Cookies, Muffins, and Pies That Will Change Yours: A Cookbook

Nancy Silverton

3.56

Transform Your Habits

The French Ingredient: A Memoir

Jane Bertch

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Heirloom Rooms: Soulful Stories of Home

Erin Napier

4.33

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