11 Best nonfiction books like Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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2. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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3. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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4. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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5. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

Similar categories in Monica Wood's How to Read a Book book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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6. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

By: Lauren Markham

4.08

Format: 263 pages, ebook

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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7. Green Frog: Stories

By: Gina Chung

4.14

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A short story collection that explores Korean American womanhood, bodies, animals, and transformati… read more

Similar categories in Gina Chung's Green Frog: Stories book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • short stories
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8. April May June July

By: Alison B. Hart

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all … read more

Similar categories in Alison B. Hart's April May June July book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • poetry
  • adult
  • nonfiction
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10. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • poetry
  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • adult
  • food and drink
  • audiobook
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11. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. You Get What You Pay For: Essays

By: Morgan Parker

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Parker's You Get What You Pay For: Essays book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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13. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Skin & Bones book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

By: Emily Raboteau

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more

Similar categories in Emily Raboteau's Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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16. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • poetry
Cover of Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice  Wong

17. Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire

By: Alice Wong

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The much-anticipated follow up to the groundbreaking anthology Disability Visibility: another revol… read more

Similar categories in Alice Wong's Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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18. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir

By: Priyanka Mattoo

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a wry, insightful, and very funny new voice, here is one woman's peripatetic search for home, … read more

Similar categories in Priyanka Mattoo's Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones: A Memoir book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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20. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more

Similar categories in Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away book and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

  • adult
  • audiobook

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Rachel Khong

4.04

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Catherine Newman

3.75

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How to Read a Book

Monica Wood

4.29

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April May June July

Alison B. Hart

3.47

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Fire Exit

Morgan Talty

3.79

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Holly Wilson

3.19

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Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil

Ananda Lima

3.52

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Andrés N. Ordorica

4.04

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