20 best-selling nonfiction books like Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland by Caroline Eden

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Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland

By: Caroline Eden

4.31

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Red Sands, the follow-up to Caroline Eden's multi-award-winning Black Sea, is a reimagining of trad…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland by Caroline Eden , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. Oaxaca Journal

By: Oliver Sacks

3.84

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The best-selling author of Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks is w… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"Having ferned for an hour, we take a break for our lunch and I eat, unwisely, quite an enormous meal...."

-Oliver Sacks, Oaxaca Journal

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2. Istanbul: Memories and the City

By: Orhan Pamuk

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A shimmering evocation, by turns intimate and panoramic, of one of the world's great cities, by its… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Idaho

By: Emily Ruskovich

4.88

Format: 242 pages,

One hot August day a family drives to a mountain clearing to collect birch wood. Jenny, the mother,… read more

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4. A Carpet Ride to Khiva: Seven Years on the Silk Road

By: Christopher Aslan Alexander

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Most travelogues chart a journey, but in this case it is the author's decision to stay put that li… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history

5. The Great Railway Bazaar

By: Paul Theroux

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

First published more than thirty years ago, Paul Theroux's strange, unique, and hugely entertaining… read more

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  • travel
  • asia
  • nonfiction
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6. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

By: Steve Coll

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Warsis the most… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

7. Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

By: Bee Wilson , None

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Technology in the kitchen does not just mean the Pacojets and sous-vide of the modernist kitchen. I… read more

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8. Awakenings

By: Oliver Sacks , None , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Awakenings--which inspired the major motion picture--is the remarkable story of a group of patients… read more

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9. The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia

By: Peter Hopkirk

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asia has bee… read more

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10. Too Late to Turn Back: Barbara and Graham Greene in Liberia

By: Paul Theroux , None

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

The story of Barbara Greene's travels with her cousin Graham Greene. read more

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11. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: Donnie Eichar

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriousl… read more

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12. The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

By: Diana Helmuth

3.76

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A skeptic’s year-long quest to find spiritual fulfillment through modern Witchcraft, perfect for fa… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It occurs to me that the energy in my body is the same as the energy in the red power lights, just a different current. What’s inside the office lights is inside me. It’s also what’s in the stars a m…"

-Diana Helmuth, The Witching Year: A Memoir of Earnest Fumbling Through Modern Witchcraft

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13. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

By: Ari Shapiro

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."

-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

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14. 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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  • history
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
"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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15. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

By: Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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17. I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

By: Elena Kostyuchenko

4.41

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia and a fearless cri de coeur for journalism in oppo… read more

Similar categories in Elena Kostyuchenko's I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country book and Caroline Eden's Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland

  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

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"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

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19. The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

By: A.J. Jacobs

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen

By: Erika Fatland

4.40

Format: 623 pages, Hardcover

Forfatteren bak Sovjetistan på en enda mer eventyrlig reise - langs grensen til verdens største lan… read more

Similar categories in Erika Fatland's Grensen: En reise rundt Russland gjennom Nord-Korea, Kina, Mongolia, Kasakhstan, Aserbajdsjan, Georgia, Ukraina, Hviterussland, Litauen, Polen, Latvia, Estland, Finland og Norge samt Nordøstpassasjen book and Caroline Eden's Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland

  • travel
  • asia
  • nonfiction
  • history
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21. Flatlands

By: Sue Hubbard

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A moving tale of unlikely friendship and the beauty of nature, set in the wild wetland landscape of… read more

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22. Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

By: James Bridle

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Artist, technologist, and philosopher James Bridle's Ways of Being is a brilliant, searching explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What would it mean to build artificial intelligences and other machines that were more like octopuses, more like fungi, or more like forests?"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

"We can’t read water in the same way as we can’t read data…Working with it makes us more aware of the distance between ourselves and the matter under consideration: it reminds us that we share this wo…"

-James Bridle, Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence

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23. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

By: Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"It's not clear whether, at this point, the Babiarzes fully understood that the libertarians were operating under vampire rules—the invitation to enter, once offered, could not be rescinded."

-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

"What's the endgame of capitalism, if not a big fat white man sitting on top of a pile of bloody bones [after cannibalizing the other capitalists] with no one around him, crying because no one's aroun…"

-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

"What's the endgame of capitalism, if not a big fat white man sitting on top of a pile of bloody bones [after cannibalizing everyone else] with no one around him, crying because no one's around to mak…"

-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

"Government isn't ruining capitalism. Capitalism is ruining government. I think that's kind of obvious. If you take capitalism out of government you get simple public representation. If you take gover…"

-Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)

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24. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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25. Mezcla: Recipes to Excite [A Cookbook]

By: Ixta Belfrage

4.39

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • 100 recipes for everyday eating with built-in wow factor, from the Otto… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.) by Megan Harlan

26. Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)

By: Megan Harlan

4.63

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Mobile Home explores the emotional structures and metaphysical geographies of home as inspired by M… read more

Similar categories in Megan Harlan's Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.) book and Caroline Eden's Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland

  • travel
  • nonfiction
"A city is a place where interesting always beats beautiful."

-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)

"I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new."

-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)

"Books mimic adrenaline to the narratively restless: nests of worlds in which the mind takes predestined flights from time and place."

-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)

"At a certain point I need to go wandering. My feet need to hit earth, again and again, that bone-filling drumbeat. I need the sky's colored threads to tangle inside me, pull me somewhere new."

-Megan Harlan, Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.)

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27. Scattered All Over the Earth

By: Yōko Tawada

3.27

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is now re… read more

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  • asia
"People are always saying the humanities are dead so it's strange how many conferences there are."

-Yōko Tawada, Scattered All Over the Earth

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28. Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland

By: Caroline Eden

4.31

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Red Sands, the follow-up to Caroline Eden's multi-award-winning Black Sea, is a reimagining of trad… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Eden's Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland book and Caroline Eden's Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland

  • history
  • travel
  • asia
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and wine
  • food and drink
  • food writing
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29. The Nutmeg Trail: A Culinary Journey Along the Ancient Spice Route

By: Eleanor Ford

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Interwoven with divine recipes and stories, Eleanor Ford’s latest cookbook The Nutmeg Trail is a fa… read more

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  • history
  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain by Tim Moore

30. Vuelta Skelter: Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain

By: Tim Moore

4.27

Format: None pages, ebook

Tim Moore completes his epic (and ill-advised) trilogy of cycling's Grand Tours. Julian Berrendero'… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5) by Juno  Dawson

31. Queen B: The Story of Anne Boleyn, Witch Queen (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #0.5)

By: Juno Dawson

3.76

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The next enchanting instalment of the sensational #1 SUNDAY TIMES bestselling HER MAJESTY’S ROYAL C… read more

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3.63

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4.49

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Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

Steve Coll

5.00

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4.29

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4.73

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Zeke Faux

4.26

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