8 Best biography memoir books like French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris by Scott Dominic Carpenter

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French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

By: Scott Dominic Carpenter

3.64

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that will unf…

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1. I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High

By: Tony Danza

3.86

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had is television, screen and stage star Tony Danza’s… read more

Similar categories in Tony Danza's I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"the prospect of beginning a third- act career scared me almost as much as it attracted me."

-Tony Danza, I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High

"Teaching is different today. Teachers don’t just stand at the board and lecture while the kids take notes. What we’re ultimately teaching them is to teach themselves."

-Tony Danza, I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High

"And whether or not the educators who are trying to raise up America's students can actually set and meet higher academic standards, our cultural values make their job next to impossible. It's so much…"

-Tony Danza, I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High

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2. Le Divorce

By: Diane Johnson

2.96

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This delightful comedy of manners and morals, money, marriage, and murder follows smart, sexy, and … read more

Similar categories in Diane Johnson's Le Divorce book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • humor
  • france
"One is never as happy as one thinks, nor as unhappy as one hopes."

-Diane Johnson, Le Divorce

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3. On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town

By: Susan Herrmann Loomis

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Susan Loomis arrived in Paris twenty years ago with little more than a student loan and the content… read more

Similar categories in Susan Herrmann Loomis's On Rue Tatin: Living and Cooking in a French Town book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
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4. Loving Frank

By: Nancy Horan

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want… read more

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  • audiobook
"Two years in a child's life is the distance between stars."

-Nancy Horan, Loving Frank

"People who live only for their children make bad company for them."

-Nancy Horan, Loving Frank

"Take my love for granted," he said, "and I shall do the same for you."

-Nancy Horan, Loving Frank

"Tell me everything. He might as well have said, “Take off your dress."

-Nancy Horan, Loving Frank

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5. Wings (Bromeliad Trilogy, #3)

By: Terry Pratchett

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Somewhere out there, the ship is waiting to take them home . . . Here's what Masklin has to do: Fin… read more

Similar categories in Terry Pratchett's Wings (Bromeliad Trilogy, #3) book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • humor
Cover of When in French: Love in a Second Language by Lauren Collins

6. When in French: Love in a Second Language

By: Lauren Collins

2.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A language barrier is no match for love. Lauren Collins discovered this firsthand when, in her earl… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction

7. The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

By: Paul Theroux

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

Paul Theroux celebrates fifty years of wandering the globe by collecting the best writing on travel… read more

Similar categories in Paul Theroux's The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

8. 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 Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction

9. Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, #14)

By: Nevada Barr

3.71

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

Soon after Anna Pigeon joins the famed wolf study team of Isle Royale National Park in the middle o… read more

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  • audiobook
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10. Wine and War: The French, the Nazis, and the Battle for France's Greatest Treasure

By: Don Kladstrup , Petie Kladstrup

3.83

Format: None pages,

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  • france
  • nonfiction

11. Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! (Elmwood Springs, #1)

By: Fannie Flagg

5.00

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, au… read more

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12. The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

By: Louise Erdrich

4.04

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Nineteenth-century American pioneer life was introduced to thousands of young readers by Laura Inga… read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1) book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • cultural
  • audiobook
"The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend."

-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

"Although she lived in town, Old Tallow was so isolated by the force and strangeness of her personality that she could have been surrounded by a huge dark forest. She had never had any children, and e…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

13. Paris Letters

By: Janice MacLeod

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

"How much money does it take to change your life?" Unfulfilled at her job and unsuccessful in the d… read more

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14. P.S. from Paris

By: Marc Levy , Sam Taylor

4.18

Format: None pages,

From Marc Levy, the most-read French author alive today, comes a modern-day love story between a fa… read more

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15. Organizing from the Inside Out: The Foolproof System For Organizing Your Home, Your Office and Your Life

By: Julie Morgenstern

0.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A completely revised and expanded edition of the New York Timesbestselling guide to putting things … read more

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16. French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

By: Mireille Guiliano

3.55

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

The million copy, ultimate #1 bestseller that is changing the way Americans eat and live Don't D… read more

Similar categories in Mireille Guiliano's French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • france
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"On the whole, “offenders"

-Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

"Give us being and feeling over having any day."

-Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

"Learn to say no, with an eye to saying yes to something else."

-Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

"You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures."

-Mireille Guiliano, French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure

17. A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light

By: Meg Waite Clayton , Cathy Kelly , Cara Black , Julie Powell , Megan Crane , Paula McLain , M.J. Rose , J. Courtney Sullivan , Lauren Willig , Jennifer L. Scott , Michelle Gable , Susan Vreeland , Ellen Sussman , Jennifer Coburn , Therese Anne Fowler , Maggie Shipstead , Eleanor Brown

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A collection of all-new Paris-themed essays written by some of the biggest names in women's fiction… read more

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18. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

By: Rebecca Donner

4.31

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Donner's All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. A Grandmother Begins the Story

By: Michelle Porter

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story … read more

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  • audiobook
"Different ways to tell a story. Some tellers make a noise to announce the coming of the story for get someone else to call everyone's attention. Some wait for people to gather around, for the quiet t…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

"People get themselves ready to die. They start going through their memories and bringing out their stories one by one as if there was a photo album in their head and they've got to get through it bef…"

-Michelle Porter, A Grandmother Begins the Story

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20. 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 Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle

21. My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now

By: Peter Mayle

3.92

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author Peter Mayle, champion of all things Provence, here in a final volume of all new … read more

Similar categories in Peter Mayle's My Twenty-Five Years in Provence: Reflections on Then and Now book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of Up Home: One Girl's Journey by Ruth J. Simmons

22. Up Home: One Girl's Journey

By: Ruth J. Simmons

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring, indelible memoir from the daughter of sharecroppers in East Texas who became the firs… read more

Similar categories in Ruth J. Simmons's Up Home: One Girl's Journey book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas."

-Ruth J. Simmons, Up Home: One Girl's Journey

Cover of The Buddha and the Bee: Biking through America's Forgotten Roadways on an Accidental Journey of Discovery by Cory Mortensen

23. The Buddha and the Bee: Biking through America's Forgotten Roadways on an Accidental Journey of Discovery

By: Cory Mortensen

4.09

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

I will ride my bike down a never-ending ribbon of asphalt wearing a backpack. A solo bike ride a… read more

Similar categories in Cory Mortensen's The Buddha and the Bee: Biking through America's Forgotten Roadways on an Accidental Journey of Discovery book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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24. The Invincible Miss Cust

By: Penny Haw

4.19

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

Must-read historical fiction for fans of Marie Benedict and Tracey Enerson Wood, based on the real … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever by Michael Bungay Stanier

25. The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever

By: Michael Bungay Stanier

4.14

Format: 224 pages, paperback

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Coaching Habit comes an authoritative guide to gettin… read more

Similar categories in Michael Bungay Stanier's The Advice Trap: Be Humble, Stay Curious & Change the Way You Lead Forever book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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26. Paris On Air

By: Oliver Gee

4.54

Format: None pages, ebook

Join award-winning podcaster Oliver Gee on this laugh-out-loud journey through the streets of Paris… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Gee's Paris On Air book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • memoir
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27. Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature

By: M. Amos Clifford

3.65

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

Forest bathing is a gentle, meditative practice of connecting with nature. Simply being present wit… read more

Similar categories in M. Amos Clifford's Your Guide to Forest Bathing: Experience the Healing Power of Nature book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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29. French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

By: Scott Dominic Carpenter

3.64

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When Scott Carpenter moves from Minnesota to Paris, little does he suspect the dramas that will unf… read more

Similar categories in Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris book and Scott Dominic Carpenter's French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris

  • cultural
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
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30. A Season for That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France

By: Steve Hoffman

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An American food writer moves his family of unlikely expats to the French countryside, where the lo… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook

16 must-read audiobook books like French Like Moi: A Midwesterner in Paris by Scott Dominic Carpenter

Transform Your Habits

I'd Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High

Tony Danza

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Loving Frank

Nancy Horan

3.77

Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, #14)

Nevada Barr

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Birchbark House (Birchbark House, #1)

Louise Erdrich

4.04

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9 Top nonfiction books like Paris On Air by Oliver Gee

Transform Your Habits

The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris

Edmund White

4.62

Transform Your Habits

French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew

Peter Mayle

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

A Waiter in Paris: Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City

Edward Chisholm

4.05

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