5 best-selling food books like The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs

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The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus

By: Ryan Jacobs

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by th…

If you liked the food plot in The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Caveat Emptor

By: Ken Perenyi

3.73

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

2. An Edible History of Humanity

By: Tom Standage

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolit… read more

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3. American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land

By: Monica Hesse

4.00

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The arsons started on a cold November midnight and didn't stop for months. Night after night, the p… read more

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4. Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580

By: Roger Crowley

3.93

Format: 265 pages,

In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, d… read more

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5. The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World's Largest Unsolved Art Theft

By: None

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Boser cracks the cold case of the art world's greatest unsolved mystery." --Vanity Fair "The True … read more

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6. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

By: Dan Saladino

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
  • nature
  • science
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"

-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

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7. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

By: Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
  • science
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8. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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9. Con/Artist: The Life and Crimes of the World's Greatest Art Forger

By: Tony Tetro

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most renowned art forger reveals the secrets behind his decades of painting like the ma… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Liquid Rules: The Delightful and Dangerous Substances That Flow Through Our Lives

By: Mark Miodownik

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This fascinating new book by the bestselling scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik is an expert tou… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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11. Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

By: William Alexander

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author William Alexander takes readers on the surprisingly twisty journe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
  • nature
  • science
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12. The Mystery of the Exploding Teeth and Other Curiosities from the History of Medicine

By: Thomas Morris

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious epidemic of dental explosions, A teenage boy who got his wick stuck in a candlestick … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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13. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh

14. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus

By: Ryan Jacobs

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Beneath the gloss of star chefs and crystal-laden tables, the truffle supply chain is touched by th… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Jacobs's The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus book and Ryan Jacobs's The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • food and drink
  • nature
  • science
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16. The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

By: Matthew J. Davenport

4.03

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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17. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

By: Daniel Stone

3.93

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the gl… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
  • nature
  • science
"What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves."

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"In Naples, where pizza was invented, Fairchild tasted his first cheesy flatbread, a punishing food for first-timers, whose mouths could be scorched with hot, lavalike cheese. He was enchanted by the …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"The grape, of a variety known as sultanina, would ultimately grow best in the wet and temperate soil of California. America's region most climatically similar to the Mediterranean. Fairchild's sample…"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

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18. The Falconer

By: Dana Czapnik

3.92

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

New York, 1993. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the o… read more

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19. Slasher Witch at the Waterpark

By: Penny Moonz

3.63

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

The waterpark has a grand opening and Zelda, the bog witch, is awakened from an ancient slumber. Th… read more

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20. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

14 Best audiobook books like The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World's Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs

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Caveat Emptor

Ken Perenyi

3.73

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Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

Dan Saladino

4.29

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

Benjamin Lorr

3.95

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The Age of Grievance

Frank Bruni

4.13

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12 Best fiction books like The Falconer by Dana Czapnik

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The Mare

Mary Gaitskill

3.67

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At Freddie's

Penelope Fitzgerald

3.66

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The Fraud

Zadie Smith

3.30

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We Play Ourselves

Jen Silverman

3.82

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