16 best-selling nonfiction books like Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan

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Burn the Place: A Memoir

By: Iliana Regan

3.64

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef’s struggle to find her place an…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Yes, Chef

By: Marcus Samuelsson

3.00

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his gran… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Samuelsson's Yes, Chef book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
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2. Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line

By: Michael Gibney

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The back must slave to feed the belly. . . . In this urgent and unique book, chef Michael Gibney us… read more

Similar categories in Michael Gibney's Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

3. 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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4. Classic Womens Short Stories D

By: Virginia Woolf , Kate Chopin , Katherine Mansfield , Teresa Gallagher , Carole Boyd , None

3.84

Format: 523 pages, Audio CD

This collection includes five stories by influential women writers from the close of the 19th centu… read more

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5. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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7. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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8. Notes from a Young Black Chef

By: Kwame Onwuachi

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Onwuachi's Notes from a Young Black Chef book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"

-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef

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9. Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World

By: Jeff Gordinier

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Hungry is a book about not only the hunger for food, but for risk, for reinvention, for creative br… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Gordinier's Hungry: Eating, Road-Tripping, and Risking It All with the Greatest Chef in the World book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • culinary
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

Similar categories in Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

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11. Screen Tests

By: Kate Zambreno

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A new work equal parts observational micro-fiction and cultural criticism reflecting on the dailine… read more

Similar categories in Kate Zambreno's Screen Tests book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir by Lisa Donovan

12. Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir

By: Lisa Donovan

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named a Favorite Book for Southerners in 2020 by  Garden & Gun  "Donovan is such a vivid writer—sm… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Donovan's Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
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13. Inverse Cowgirl

By: Alicia Roth Weigel

3.80

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights—and … read more

Similar categories in Alicia Roth Weigel's Inverse Cowgirl book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan

14. Burn the Place: A Memoir

By: Iliana Regan

3.64

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

A singular, powerfully expressive debut memoir that traces one chef’s struggle to find her place an… read more

Similar categories in Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • culinary
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • queer
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15. The Maid and the Socialite: The Brave Women Behind Green Bay's Scandalous Minahan Trials

By: Lynda Drews

4.17

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

In the shadows of progress, two women's stories were erased. Until now. What if a respected surg… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Drews's The Maid and the Socialite: The Brave Women Behind Green Bay's Scandalous Minahan Trials book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

Similar categories in Emma Copley Eisenberg's Housemates book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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17. Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

By: Erika Bolstad

3.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await... At first, Erika Bolstad knew only one… read more

Similar categories in Erika Bolstad's Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her book and Iliana Regan's Burn the Place: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music, and Mystery of Connie Converse

By: Howard Fishman

4.35

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The mysterious true story of Connie Converse—a mid-century New York City songwriter, singer, and co… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney

19. One Night Two Souls Went Walking

By: Ellen Cooney

3.43

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A young interfaith chaplain is joined on her hospital rounds one night by an unusual companion: a r… read more

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20. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen by Jon M. Chu

21. Viewfinder: A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen

By: Jon M. Chu

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From visionary director Jon M. Chu comes a powerful, inspiring memoir of belonging, creativity, and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

16 Top audiobook books like Burn the Place: A Memoir by Iliana Regan

Transform Your Habits

Yes, Chef

Marcus Samuelsson

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line

Michael Gibney

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Between Two Trailers

J. Dana Trent

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Hijab Butch Blues

Lamya H.

4.48

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21 best-selling fiction books like Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg

Transform Your Habits

Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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