10 Top memoir books like The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino

Cover of The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino

The Seine: The River that Made Paris

By: Elaine Sciolino

3.92

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best…

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Cover of Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France by Craig Carlson

1. Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France

By: Craig Carlson

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Now a New York TimesBestseller Paris was practically perfect... Craig Carlson was the last person a… read more

Similar categories in Craig Carlson's Pancakes in Paris: Living the American Dream in France book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
Cover of The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCullough

2. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

By: David McCullough

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Greater Journey is the enthralling, inspiring - and until now, untold - story of the adventurou… read more

Similar categories in David McCullough's The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • history
  • biography
  • travel
  • france
  • nonfiction

3. Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

By: Anthony Doerr

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of The Shell Collector and About Grace comes an evocative memoir of t… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Doerr's Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

4. Paris to the Moon

By: Adam Gopnik

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, o… read more

Similar categories in Adam Gopnik's Paris to the Moon book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france

5. I Always Loved You

By: Robin Oliveira

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas's great romance from the New York Times bestselling author … read more

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6. The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris

By: John Baxter

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the author of Immoveable Feastand We'll Always Have Pariscomes a guided tour of the most beaut… read more

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7. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

By: Sue Roe

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more

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8. Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands

By: Ben Coates

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The first book to offer an in depth look at hidden Holland and the fascinating people that live the… read more

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9. How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City

By: Joan DeJean

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet… read more

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10. The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed

By: Jean-Benoît Nadeau , Julie Barlow

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow spent a decade traveling back and forth to Paris as well as liv… read more

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Cover of The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch

11. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

Similar categories in Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson

12. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Tomlinson's Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment by Stephane Henaut

13. A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

By: Stephane Henaut

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A French cheesemonger and an American academic join forces to serve up a sumptuous history of Franc… read more

Similar categories in Stephane Henaut's A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

14. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Blitzer's Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps by Ben Coates

15. The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

By: Ben Coates

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers,… read more

Similar categories in Ben Coates's The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • european history
  • audiobook
"All along the river, the people I spoke to were hard-working and deeply attached to the mental security blanket of having a decent house, clean car and steady job. They were relatively wealthy, but a…"

-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

"Several years of living in the Netherlands had reduced my innate English prudishness somewhat, but I still suffered from a typical Englishman's angst at public nudity. Cowering between the changing r…"

-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

Cover of Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home by Danielle Postel-Vinay

16. Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home

By: Danielle Postel-Vinay

3.64

Format: 288 pages, ebook

French Women Don’t Get Fat meets The Little Book of Hygge in this lively, sophisticated, and practi… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Postel-Vinay's Home Sweet Maison: The French Art of Making a Home book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • memoir
  • travel
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino

17. The Seine: The River that Made Paris

By: Elaine Sciolino

3.92

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A vibrant, enchanting tour of the Seine from longtime New York Times foreign correspondent and best… read more

Similar categories in Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • world history
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • european history
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone

18. 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

Similar categories in Daniel Stone's The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • history
  • biography
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

19. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century by Simon Kuper

20. Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century

By: Simon Kuper

4.17

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

'Kuper is a shrewd observer [in] this entertaining mix of memoir and anthropology' The Sunday Times… read more

Similar categories in Simon Kuper's Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game by Georgia Cloepfil

21. The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game

By: Georgia Cloepfil

4.37

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating perspective on the life of an athlete and the pursuit of excellence outside the spo… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Cloepfil's The Striker and the Clock: On Being in the Game book and Elaine Sciolino's The Seine: The River that Made Paris

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

11 Top audiobook books like The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino

Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World

Anthony Doerr

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The French Ingredient: A Memoir

Jane Bertch

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Transform Your Habits

A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment

Stephane Henaut

4.18

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16 best-selling audiobook books like A Bite-Sized History of France: Gastronomic Tales of Revolution, War, and Enlightenment by Stephane Henaut

Transform Your Habits

Canada

Mike Myers

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon

None , Suzanne M. Desan

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Vikings

Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Great Courses: Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior

Mark R. Leary , Mark Leary

3.94

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