Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live
By: Dan Ahdoot
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, an…
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1. What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories
By: Laura Shapiro
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
"Fascinating." Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal "Mouthwatering."--Eater.com A beloved culinary hi… read more
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- biography
- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
2. L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food
By: Roy Choi , Tien Nguyen , Natasha Phan
3.41
Format: None pages, ebook
Los Angeles: A patchwork megalopolis defined by its unlikely cultural collisions; the city that rai… read more
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3. 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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4. Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
By: Gabrielle Hamilton
4.00
Format: 274 pages,
Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-liv… read more
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5. I'll Have What She's Having: My Adventures in Celebrity Dieting
By: Rebecca Harrington
4.15
Format: None pages,
A hilarious look at the eating habits of the fit and famous--from Gwyneth's goji berry and quail eg… read more
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6. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
By: Jamie Loftus
3.92
Format: 301 pages, Hardcover
Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more
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- memoir
- humor
- food
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
7. Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s
By: Gary Gulman
4.14
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth gr… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Leslie F*cking Jones
By: Leslie Jones
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more
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- biography
- memoir
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"Dad"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones
9. The Dish: The Lives and Labor Behind One Plate of Food: A Vivid Exploration of Food and Community, Perfect for Fall 2024, Discover the Craft and Care Behind the Journey of a Single Meal
By: Andrew Friedman
3.59
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Acclaimed “chef writer” Andrew Friedman introduces readers to all the people and processes that com… read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- audiobook
10. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
By: Dwight Garner
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more
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- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- essays
- audiobook
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading
11. Unreliable Narrator: Me, Myself, and Impostor Syndrome
By: Aparna Nancherla
3.60
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and insightful collection of essays exploring impostor syndrome, from the inside and ou… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
12. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
By: Ken Jennings
3.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes… read more
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- humor
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
13. MeatEater's American History: The Long Hunters (1761-1775)
By: Steven Rinella
4.34
Format: None pages, Audiobook
Listening time = 6 hours and 3 minutes From the creators of the New York Times bestselling serie… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
15. America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
By: Blythe Roberson
3.76
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
For writer and comedian Blythe Roberson, there are only so many Mary Oliver poems you can read abou… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"It sometimes feels like men feel the need to assert their dominance over nature. Rich white men, who have no problems, climb mountains to see what having problems feels like."-Blythe Roberson, America the Beautiful?: One Woman in a Borrowed Prius on the Road Most Traveled
16. Subculture Vulture: A Memoir in Six Scenes
By: Moshe Kasher
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riotous, whirlwind tour through deep American subcultures ranging from Burning Man to Alcoholics … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures
By: Connie Wang
3.70
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Hilarious, candid, and heartfelt . . . It's like Eat Pray Love meets The Amazing Race with hints o… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
18. When I Was Your Age: Life Lessons, Funny Stories & Questionable Parenting Advice from a Professional Clown
By: Kenan Thompson
3.83
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
When I Was Your Age is a hilarious, heartwarming and surprising ode to growing up, getting older a… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
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19. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]
By: Chelsea Devantez
4.08
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
20. The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes
By: Mark Kurlansky
3.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times- bestselling author of Cod and Salt , a delectable look at the cultural, hi… read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
21. Congratulations, the Best is Over!
By: R. Eric Thomas
4.07
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The beloved bestselling author of Here for It presents a collection of heartening, thoughtful, and … read more
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- memoir
- humor
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- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"If I'm not heading toward a place where I can feel joy, then hope in the present has nothing to hold on to."-R. Eric Thomas, Congratulations, the Best is Over!
22. Joyful Recollections of Trauma
By: Paul Scheer
4.23
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma
23. Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live
By: Dan Ahdoot
3.72
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A collection of hilarious essays about how food became one man's obsession and coping mechanism, an… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
24. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
By: Curtis Chin
3.80
Format: 291 pages, Hardcover
This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
25. The Year of Living Constitutionally: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Constitution's Original Meaning
By: A.J. Jacobs
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically attempts to follow the origi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
26. Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
By: Lee Berger
4.31
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A true-life scientific adventure story, this thrilling book takes the reader deep into South Africa… read more
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- memoir
- audiobook
"Protein is more stable than DNA over time, and so this new technology offers a fresh way to study fossils."-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"By almost any definition, Homo naledi is not human. But if the present archaeological record reflects the complexity of Homo sapiens accurately, it means that naledi was significantly more complex th…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
"Their synchrotron, a super-powerful x-ray machine, can harness the radiation of überfast subatomic particles in order to -- among many other things -- look inside solid objects. It's spectacular scie…"-Lee Berger, Cave of Bones: A True Story of Discovery, Adventure, and Human Origins
27. Everybody's Favorite: Tales from the World's Worst Perfectionist
By: Lillian Stone
3.44
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
From one of the Internet’s favorite self-deprecating commentators comes Everybody’s Favorite, a lau… read more
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- memoir
- humor
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
28. Comedy Bang! Bang! The Podcast: The Book
By: Scott Aukerman
4.44
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Scott Aukerman and the comedic geniuses who created the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast comes a boo… read more
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- humor
29. Democracy or Else: How to Save America in 10 Easy Steps
By: Jon Favreau
4.17
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From your friends at Pod Save America and Crooked Media comes a useful and illustrated guide to sa… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
30. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"
By: Emma Specter
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more
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- memoir
- biography memoir
- food
- nonfiction
- essays
- adult
- audiobook
31. MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Discoveries, Revelations & Near Missess
By: Steven Rinella
4.09
Format: None pages, Audible Audio
Eleven spellbinding tales of transformation, survival, and grit from the creators of the New York T… read more
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