9 Top nonfiction books like American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O by Christina Ward

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American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O

By: Christina Ward

3.76

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O is a d…

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1. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something m… read more

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"Why didn't they ask the Evans?"

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"A woman would know all right about her own husband."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

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2. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America

By: Laura Shapiro

2.86

Format: 358 pages,

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  • cooking
  • food
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Cloud Atlas

By: David Mitchell

3.90

Format: 49 pages, Paperback

Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more

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4. Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who make… read more

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5. The Sellout

By: Paul Beatty

4.17

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Sellout is the first book by an American author to win the UK's prestigious Man Booker Prize. A… read more

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6. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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7. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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8. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business
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9. Making It So

By: Patrick Stewart

4.33

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart! From h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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11. Là où je me terre

By: Caroline Dawson

4.38

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Valparaíso, décembre 1986, tremblement de terre entre les quatre murs d’une maison. Un homme et une… read more

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"Parce que c'est ma mère, elle qui a sacrifié chacun de ses jours et plusieurs de ses nuits pour me voir libérée des servilités et soumissions qui étaient les siennes, qui a souahaité le plus ma réuss…"

-Caroline Dawson, Là où je me terre

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12. Community Board

By: Tara Conklin

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted no… read more

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13. The Fraud

By: Zadie Smith

3.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more

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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"

-Zadie Smith, The Fraud

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14. What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork

By: Witold Szabłowski

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“Riveting—a delicious odyssey full of history, humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to unde… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • history
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15. 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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  • nonfiction
  • food
  • history
  • business
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16. The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History

By: Edward Brooke-Hitching

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This fascinating and bizarre collection compiles the most unusual, obscure books from the far reach… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Cut and Thirst

By: Margaret Atwood

3.15

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, a… read more

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18. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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19. Family Reservations

By: Liza Palmer

3.67

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful mother. Three daughters. And a fast-paced, cutthroat culinary legacy up for grabs in a d… read more

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  • food
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20. American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O

By: Christina Ward

3.76

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Spam, Bananas, and Jell-O is a d… read more

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  • history
  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • business
  • food writing
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21. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • business

9 Best history books like American Advertising Cookbooks: How Corporations Taught Us to Love Bananas, Spam, and Jell-O by Christina Ward

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Laura Shapiro

2.86

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Kara Swisher

3.99

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Patrick Stewart

4.33

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What's Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork

Witold Szabłowski

4.28

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Edward Brooke-Hitching

4.25

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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

J.W. Ocker

3.70

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Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Megan Rosenbloom

4.01

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Bettany Hughes

4.02

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