13 best-selling biography memoir books like Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me by Sutanya Dacres

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Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me

By: Sutanya Dacres

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One , an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt …

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1. Mastering the Art of French Eating: Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris

By: Ann Mah

4.17

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

The memoir of a young diplomat's wife who must reinvent her dream of living in Paris--one dish at a… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
Cover of Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman by Alice Steinbach

2. Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman

By: Alice Steinbach

3.50

Format: None pages,

"In many ways, I was an independent woman," writes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alice Steinbac… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
Cover of Made in the U.S.A. by Billie Letts

3. Made in the U.S.A.

By: Billie Letts

3.71

Format: None pages,

Lutie McFee's history has taught her to avoid attachments...to people, to places, and to almost eve… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. My Life in France

By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction

5. Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

By: Padma Lakshmi

3.55

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Atetraces the arc … read more

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6. Arthur: The dog who crossed the jungle to find a home

By: Mikael Lindnord

3.37

Format: 395 pages,

When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing yo… read more

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7. Becoming Lisette

By: Rebecca Glenn

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Independent and beautiful, Elisabeth Vigee, affectionately called Lisette by friends and family, ha… read more

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8. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

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9. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

By: Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following  New York Times  bestselling author and ac… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • travel
  • food
  • france
  • audiobook
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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

By: Edward Chisholm

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An evocative portrait of the underbelly of contemporary Paris as seen through the eyes of a young w… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
Cover of I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris by Glynnis MacNicol

12. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
Cover of Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen

14. Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain

By: Charles Leerhsen

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, “unvarnished” ( The New York Times ), “engrossing” ( The Guardian ), “gritty, well… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
Cover of Designing Your Life - How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life by Bill Burnett

15. Designing Your Life - How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life

By: Bill Burnett

3.91

Format: None pages, None

designing your life read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World by Cathy Yandell

16. The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

By: Cathy Yandell

3.40

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bringing up Bebe and French Toast , Cathy Yandell's The French Art of Living We… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder

17. Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us

By: Colleen Kinder

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“Beautiful. The human condition is on full display in these glimpses of our essential connectedness… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home by Frances Mayes

18. A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

By: Frances Mayes

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A lyrical and evocative collection of personal stories from the author … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Much about home is imagining home"

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"I will translate myself into a new language."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"The first thing to know about living in an old house: The walls are alive."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

"As much as you own an old house and garden, it owns you. There's a continuum in progress."

-Frances Mayes, A Place in the World: Finding the Meaning of Home

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19. BFF: A Memoir of Friendship Lost and Found

By: Christie Tate

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

* “A love story about the miracle of friendship.” —Maggie Smith * “Fearless and unflinching.” — Pit… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail by Kristen Green

20. The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

By: Kristen Green

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring true story of an enslaved woman who liberated an infamous slave jail and transformed … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"At an 1854 Fourth of July abolitionist rally in Framinhmgham, Massachusetts, William Lloyd Garrison burned copies of both the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act and the court's decision to send Burns back to Vi…"

-Kristen Green, The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

Cover of Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics by Ernesto Londoño

21. Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics

By: Ernesto Londoño

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck

22. Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories

By: Colombe Schneck

3.99

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and best-selling French author, a woman personal journey through abortion, s… read more

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  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More by Fatima Ali

23. Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

By: Fatima Ali

4.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventur… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
"There is nothing more empowering than knowing - no, believing - that all you really need is you."

-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

"hen we think we have all the time in the world to live, we forget to indulge in the experiences of living. When that choice is yanked away from us, that's when we scramble to feel."

-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

"Instead of my bucket list book, this is the story of my abbreviated life, short but nonetheless possessing secret love, joy and pain, adventure and hard work, luck and its opposite"

-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

"I didn't think I was so special, but actually that was the key: If this ordinary Pakistani girl could pursue the thing she loved most - cooking - and could make it to the tippy-top and do what she lo…"

-Fatima Ali, Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

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24. The Vineyards of Champagne

By: Juliet Blackwell

4.01

Format: 388 pages, Paperback

Beneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World W… read more

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  • france
  • audiobook
"The dead lie unburied and unconsecrated above ground, while the living cower deep beneath the surface of the earth. The world, upside down."

-Juliet Blackwell, The Vineyards of Champagne

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25. Significant Others

By: Zoe Eisenberg

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"I've been searching for a book with female friendships at the heart of it that doesn't feel flippa… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Nice Work, Nora November by Julia London

26. Nice Work, Nora November

By: Julia London

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

After a near death experience, one woman creates her "reverse" bucket the things she wants to do a… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Self-Care Solution A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter--One Month at a Time by Jennifer Ashton

27. The Self-Care Solution A Year of Becoming Happier, Healthier, and Fitter--One Month at a Time

By: Jennifer Ashton

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

ABC’s chief medical correspondent helps you ring in the New Year right with a resolution that’s act… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of A Prelude to Versailles: Love and Intrigue at the Paris Peace Conference by Mark Anthony Sullivan

28. A Prelude to Versailles: Love and Intrigue at the Paris Peace Conference

By: Mark Anthony Sullivan

3.88

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing had prepared Lieutenant George Murphy for Paris. Before he was wounded all he had seen in F… read more

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Cover of Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me by Sutanya Dacres

29. Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me

By: Sutanya Dacres

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One , an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • cooking
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • audiobook
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

30. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family by Olivia Williams

31. The Secret Life of the Savoy: and the D'Oyly Carte family

By: Olivia Williams

3.61

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

THE STORY OF THE SAVOY HOTEL'S FOUNDERS, THROUGH A CENTURY OF LUXURY."For The Gondoliers-themed bir… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

23 must-read audiobook books like Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me by Sutanya Dacres

Transform Your Habits

Made in the U.S.A.

Billie Letts

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

James Patterson

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Paris Novel

Ruth Reichl

3.84

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14 best-selling nonfiction books like My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme

Transform Your Habits

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

Joan Reardon , Avis DeVoto

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

Alex Prud'Homme

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

Ruth Reichl

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen

Jacques Pépin

2.50

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