Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos
By: Natacha Du Pont de Bie
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Natacha Du Pont De Bie is no ordinary tourist. She'll trek for hours or even days in search of a go…
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1. Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
By: Tim Butcher
3.98
Format: 363 pages, Paperback
A compulsively readable account of a journey to the Congo — a country virtually inaccessible to the… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
"In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken."-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark."-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchi…"-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
"My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own categor…"-Tim Butcher, Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart
2. Nausea
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth
3.94
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more
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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
3. Island Beneath the Sea
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
4.10
Format: 457 pages, Hardcover
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an Afri… read more
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"الأم و الوطن لا يمكن المزاح فيهما: إنهما مقدسان."-Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea
"As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else."-Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea
"Sometimes I have these premonitions and I don't forget them, so I will be prepared when they happen."-Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea
"Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me."-Isabel Allende, Island Beneath the Sea
4. Village of Stone
By: Xiaolu Guo , Cindy Carter
3.79
Format: 196 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Village of Stone brilliantly evokes the harshness of life on the typhoon-battered coast of China, w… read more
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- asia
"The road home is a long one. As I walk this road, I recall my grandmother's words: "Everyone has a past life, a future life and a present life."-Xiaolu Guo, Village of Stone
"Red's world, you see, is a closed circle. Not that it matters. I know that I'm a closed circle, too, and it's all I can do to find some starting point from myself, while at the same time trying to fi…"-Xiaolu Guo, Village of Stone
5. Seven Years in Tibet
By: Heinrich Harrer
4.10
Format: 330 pages, Paperback
Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and … read more
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- travel
- asia
- nonfiction
- memoir
"The name Kyirong means “the village of happiness,"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There are times when visible poverty has its advantages."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two hundred."-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
"Wherever I live, I shall feel homesick for Tibet. I often think I can still hear the cries of wild geese and cranes and the beating of their wings as they fly over Lhasa in the clear, cold moonlight.…"-Heinrich Harrer, Seven Years in Tibet
6. The Sympathizer
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.83
Format: 28 pages, Hardcover
The winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as five other awards, The Sympathizeris … read more
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- asia
7. A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
By: Tiziano Terzani
3.50
Format: 31 pages,
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- asia
- nonfiction
- memoir
8. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
By: Peter Hessler
3.84
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In the heart of China's Sichuan province lies the small city of Fuling. Surrounded by the terraced … read more
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- asia
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- memoir
9. No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
By: Thich Nhat Hanh
4.25
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
The secret to happiness is to acknowledge and transform suffering, not to run away from it. Here, T… read more
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- nonfiction
"Suffering has its beneficial aspects. It can be an excellent teacher."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"The most effective way to show compassion to another is to listen, rather than talk."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"If you can be aware that you have a living body, and notice when there's tension in your body, that's already an important insight."-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tende…"-Thich Nhat Hanh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
10. Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
By: Elizabeth Strout
3.85
Format: 270 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – … read more
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"The appetites of the body were private battles."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
"She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
"It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men"-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
"Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else."-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
11. Under the Net
By: Iris Murdoch
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Jake Donaghue, garrulous artist, meets Hugo Belfounder, silent philosopher. Jake, hack writer and s… read more
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- travel
- nonfiction
- memoir
13. Invisible Cities
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
4.11
Format: 15 pages, Paperback
"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities v… read more
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14. The Rum Diary
By: Hunter S. Thompson
3.65
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Alternate Cover Edition can be found . Made into a major motion picture starring Johnny Depp,The … read more
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15. The Quiet American
By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more
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- asia
16. Memories of My Melancholy Whores
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman
3.89
Format: 202 pages, Paperback
A New York TimesNotable Book On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a bachelor decides to give himsel… read more
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17. Fieldwork
By: Mischa Berlinski
3.14
Format: 208 pages,
A daring, spellbinding tale of anthropologists, missionaries, demon possession, sexual taboos, murd… read more
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18. Zorba the Greek
By: None , None , Nikos Kazantzakis
4.04
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
The classic novel, international sensation, and inspiration for the film starring Anthony Quinn exp… read more
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"فالروح نفسها تبدو وكأنها بحر وغيمة وعطر"-None, Zorba the Greek
"كم هو حزين ان تسير بمفردك على ساحل البحر"-None, Zorba the Greek
"إنّني أعتقد - ليسامحني الله - أنّني سعيد."-None, Zorba the Greek
"You can knock on a deaf man's door forever."-None, Zorba the Greek
19. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
3.90
Format: 216 pages,
If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more
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20. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
By: Lisa See
4.42
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual … read more
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21. The Tale of Kieu: A bilingual edition of Nguyen Du's Truyen Kieu
By: Alexander Barton Woodside , None , Nguyễn Du
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallen… read more
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22. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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23. Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
By: Xinran , Julia Lovell , Esther Tyldesley
3.36
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telepho… read more
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24. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
By: Fatema Mernissi
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..." So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and ric… read more
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25. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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26. The Maniac
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.34
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hu… read more
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"[...] si nuestra especie iba a sobrevivir el siglo XX, necesitábamos llenar el enorme vacío dejado por la huida de los dioses, y la única candidata viable para realizar esa extraña y esotérica transf…"-Benjamín Labatut, The Maniac
27. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)
By: Chris Hammer
4.29
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more
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28. Cuddy
By: Benjamin Myers
4.33
Format: 447 pages, Hardcover
Cuddy is a bold and experimental retelling of the story of the hermit St. Cuthbert, unofficial patr… read more
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"Some say owls carry within them the souls of those who in life never had a name, a place or a purpose, and were cast out to wander alone. Some say their stained-glass eyes are windows into other worl…"-Benjamin Myers, Cuddy
29. Any Ordinary Day
By: Leigh Sales
4.13
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day
30. Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life on the Move
By: Nanjala Nyabola
4.38
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
Thoughtful, original reflections on migration and identity from an African woman abroad. What does… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
31. Ant Egg Soup: The Adventures of a Food Tourist in Laos
By: Natacha Du Pont de Bie
3.82
Format: 342 pages, Paperback
Natacha Du Pont De Bie is no ordinary tourist. She'll trek for hours or even days in search of a go… read more
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- asia
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
- food and drink
- food writing
