10 must-read nonfiction books like The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch by Charlie Berens

Cover of The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch by Charlie Berens

The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

By: Charlie Berens

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture, from comedian and jou…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch by Charlie Berens , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Old World Murder (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #1) by Kathleen Ernst

1. Old World Murder (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #1)

By: Kathleen Ernst

3.61

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Trying to leave painful memories behind her, Chloe Ellefson is making a fresh start. She's the new … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Ernst's Old World Murder (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #1) book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • audiobook
Cover of The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Zoo (The Boxcar Children, #26) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

2. The Mystery of the Mixed-Up Zoo (The Boxcar Children, #26)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

3.83

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The Boxcar Children are excited to be visiting all their favorite animals at Edward Marlow's zoo! B… read more

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  • audiobook

3. The Mystery of the Hidden Painting (The Boxcar Children, #24)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their gr… read more

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Cover of The Amusement Park Mystery (The Boxcar Children, #25) by Gertrude Chandler Warner

4. The Amusement Park Mystery (The Boxcar Children, #25)

By: Gertrude Chandler Warner

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Alden's investigation involves antique wooden horses on a merry-go-round near Cousin Joe's. read more

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  • audiobook

5. Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

By: None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for America's most heinous serial killer. F… read more

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6. The Heirloom Murders (A Chloe Ellefson Mystery #2)

By: Kathleen Ernst

3.84

Format: 523 pages, Paperback

Working for Old World Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson delights in losing herself in antiques and folk tra… read more

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7. The Totally Unscientific Study of the Search for Human Happiness

By: Paula Poundstone

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A remarkable journey. I laughed. I cried. I got another cat." --Lily Tomlin "Paula Poundstone is t… read more

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8. So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

By: Steve Martin

3.83

Format: 3 pages, Audiobook

Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life in this engrossing audio-bi… read more

Similar categories in Steve Martin's So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • biography
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson

9. No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood

By: Erin Carlson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own —one of the most beloved basebal… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Dan Ahdoot's Undercooked: How I Let Food Become My Life Navigator and How Maybe That's a Dumb Way to Live book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
  • audiobook
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11. Garvey in the Dark

By: Nikki Grimes

4.13

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

What can one voice do? As the first rumblings of the pandemic sound around Garvey, he hardly notice… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Grimes's Garvey in the Dark book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • contemporary
Cover of The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch by Charlie Berens

12. The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

By: Charlie Berens

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A hilarious full-color guide to Midwestern culture, from comedian and jou… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • cultural
  • biography
  • travel
  • reference
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • sports
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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13. I Curse You With Joy

By: Tiffany Haddish

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, I Curse You With Joy … read more

Similar categories in Tiffany Haddish's I Curse You With Joy book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • biography
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Representation isn’t just checking off boxes, it’s validating experience."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"What I was learning was, in its own fucked up way, no feelings was as bad as too many."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"I wish that men got endometriosis. If it was painful when they ejaculated, you know they would find a cure immediately and every doctor would know what to do to make it less painful, even a foot doct…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"Going through all that, taught me that you get to choose your response when you are afraid. You might not be able to control everything that happens to you but you do get to control how you respond t…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

Cover of Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter

14. Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

By: Stephen L. Carter

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author delves into his past and discovers the inspiring story of his grandmother’s … read more

Similar categories in Stephen L. Carter's Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"It was all so beautiful, so quiet, and yet with such a full and thrilling sweep from time into eternity that my sorrow was stilled and I could wail no monody. My desolate hour must wait."

-Stephen L. Carter, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

"In 1950 there would be 31,707 male lawers in New York State. There would be 1,275 female lawyers in New York State. There would be 19 Negro women lawyers in New York State. Put otherwise, black women…"

-Stephen L. Carter, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

"Negroes were constantly being arrested in the city, for crimes they committed and for crimes they did not, for rudeness or talking back or looking at a white woman, for being in the wrong neighborhoo…"

-Stephen L. Carter, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

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15. Still True

By: Maggie Ginsberg

4.28

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-o… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Ginsberg's Still True book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • contemporary
Cover of Little Pieces of Hope: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World by Todd Doughty

16. Little Pieces of Hope: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World

By: Todd Doughty

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Named by The Washington Post as one of the best feel-good books of 2021, Little Pieces of Hope is a… read more

Similar categories in Todd Doughty's Little Pieces of Hope: Happy-Making Things in a Difficult World book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of A Guide to Midwestern Conversation by Taylor Kay Phillips

17. A Guide to Midwestern Conversation

By: Taylor Kay Phillips

3.77

Format: 143 pages, Kindle Edition

Learn (and love) the language of the landlocked in this bitingly funny illustrated guide to the com… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Kay Phillips's A Guide to Midwestern Conversation book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • audiobook
Cover of Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation by Sarah  Cooper

18. Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation

By: Sarah Cooper

3.59

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this hilariously revealing debut memoir, comedian Sarah Cooper charts her rise from lip-synching… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Cooper's Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • biography
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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19. Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD

By: Pan Cooke

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Growing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with… read more

Similar categories in Pan Cooke's Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD book and Charlie Berens's The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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20. Glory Days: Stories

By: Simon Rich

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Audiobook

The new collection of stories capturing the travails of aging Millennials from “one of the funniest… read more

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  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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21. Death's Door: True Tales of Tragedy, Mystery, and Bravery from the Great Lakes' Most Dangerous Waters

By: Barbara M. Joosse

3.91

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

True maritime stories told in graphic-novel style  This beautifully illustrated book for children … read more

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12 must-read audiobook books like The Midwest Survival Guide: How We Talk, Love, Work, Drink, and Eat . . . Everything with Ranch by Charlie Berens

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3.61

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3.83

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Gertrude Chandler Warner

4.00

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3.83

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Amy Sarig King

4.21

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Andrea Beatriz Arango

4.31

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Jarrett Lerner

4.40

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Charles Waters

4.02

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