5 best-selling cooking books like James Beard’s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking (The James Beard Library of Great American Cooking) by James Beard

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James Beard’s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking (The James Beard Library of Great American Cooking)

By: James Beard

4.33

Format: 770 pages, Kindle Edition

From the James Beard Foundation: As its name suggests, James Beard’s Theory & Practice of Good Coo…

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1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

By: None , H.T. Willetts , Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

3.98

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

The only English translation authorized by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn First published in the Soviet… read more

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"A couple of ounces ruled your life."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"It's all so arty there's no art left in it."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Two roubles. Worn notes that didn't rustle."

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

"Гении не подгоняют трактовку под вкус тиранов!"

-None, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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2. The Histories

By: Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

Format: 716 pages, Paperback

David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the pecul… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Hippocleides doesn't care."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"So much, then, for the fish."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"La muerte es para el hombre el más deseado refugio."

-Herodotus, The Histories

"Muchos hombres opulentos son desdichados, y muchos que tienen hacienda moderada son dichosos."

-Herodotus, The Histories

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3. Book of Longing

By: Leonard Cohen

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Leonard Cohen is one of the great writers, performers, and most consistently daring artists of our … read more

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"I am this thing that needs to sing."

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"need to see I never saw your need for me your longing raw"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

"My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret"

-Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing

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4. The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook

By: John Berendt , Paula H. Deen

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

From one of the most frequently visited restaurants in Savannah, The Lady & Sons, comes this collec… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
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5. True North

By: Jim Harrison

4.32

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

True North is the story of a family torn apart and a man engaged in profound reckoning with the dam… read more

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6. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Faithful Unto Death (Chief Inspector Barnaby, #5)

By: Caroline Graham

3.92

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

When bored young housewife Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice-her latest effort to f… read more

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8. The Civil War: A Narrative

By: Shelby Foote

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
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9. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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10. An Essay on Man

By: Frank Brady , Alexander Pope

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Second Nature (Celebrity Magazine, #1)

By: Nora Roberts

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

For Celebritymagazine reporter Lee Radcliffe, tracking down the world-famous, notoriously private, … read more

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12. Bulfinch's Mythology

By: Thomas Bulfinch

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of… read more

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13. The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)

By: John Galsworthy

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Sagachronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial … read more

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14. The Stories of John Cheever

By: John Cheever

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Here are sixty-one stories that chronicle the lives of what has been called "the greatest generatio… read more

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15. Provenance (Imperial Radch)

By: Ann Leckie

3.84

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

Though she knows her brother holds her mother's favor, Ingray is determined to at least be consider… read more

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"Diplomat does not mean nice,"

-Ann Leckie, Provenance (Imperial Radch)

16. The Second World War

By: John Keegan , Winston S. Churchill

3.12

Format: 56 pages,

The definitive, Nobel Prize-winning history of World War II, universally acknowledged as a magnific… read more

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17. The Art of Eating

By: M.F.K. Fisher

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

This contains the author's five most popular books - "Consider the Oyster", "The Gastronomical Me",… read more

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18. Harvey

By: Mary Chase

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

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19. The Story of King Arthur and His Knights

By: Howard Pyle , None

3.57

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle carries us back to the enc… read more

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20. The King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion: The Essential Cookie Cookbook (King Arthur Flour Cookbooks)

By: None

3.57

Format: 271 pages,

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21. Those Across the River

By: Christopher Buehlman

3.71

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whit… read more

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"Violence like that is private, don't you think?"

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"That was a mean thought, and not funny at all. I let it turn to sand and blow out of my head."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"I mostly drink clear booze because the rest of it looks it's already been through a gentleman."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

"But when I make a good [taxidermy] mount I feel like I beat God in a small way. As though the Almighty said, Let such critter be dead, and I said, 'Fuck You, he can still play the banjo."

-Christopher Buehlman, Those Across the River

22. The Shipping News

By: Annie Proulx

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Paperback

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his an… read more

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23. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

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24. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

By: B. Dylan Hollis

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from t… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • food and drink
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25. Opinions: A Decade of Arguments, Criticism, and Minding Other People's Business

By: Roxane Gay

4.01

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, “a strikingly fresh cultural critic” (Washington Po… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks

By: Crystal Wilkinson

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful … read more

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  • cooking
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27. Iwo, 26 Charlie: A Novel (P. T. Deutermann WWII Novels)

By: P.T. Deutermann

4.61

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

P. T. Deutermann is a contemporary master of World War II military fiction: writing about the lives… read more

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28. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

By: Caleb Carr

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of  The Alienist,  Caleb  Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics—and How to Fix It

By: Will Bunch

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Will Bunch, the epic untold story of college—the great polit… read more

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30. The Armchair James Beard

By: John Ferrone

4.07

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

A timeless and insightful volume of essays—with more than 130 recipes—by the master of American cui… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
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31. James Beard’s Theory and Practice of Good Cooking (The James Beard Library of Great American Cooking)

By: James Beard

4.33

Format: 770 pages, Kindle Edition

From the James Beard Foundation: As its name suggests, James Beard’s Theory & Practice of Good Coo… read more

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Transform Your Habits

The Histories

Herodotus , Aubrey de Sélincourt , John M. Marincola

4.01

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The Lady & Sons Savannah Country Cookbook

John Berendt , Paula H. Deen

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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3.41

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Erik Larson

4.24

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4.54

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The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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Colm Tóibín

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