10 best-selling cooking books like Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day by Alexander Smalls

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Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day

By: Alexander Smalls

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Between Harlem and Heaven presents a captivatingly original cuisine. Afro-Asian-American cooking i…

If you liked the cooking plot in Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day by Alexander Smalls , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The One-Straw Revolution

By: Masanobu Fukuoka

4.34

Format: 181 pages, Paperback

Fukuoka demonstrates how the way we look at farming influences the way we look at health, the schoo… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
"Wajah alam merupakan sesuatu yang tidak dapat dikenal"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Orang sekarang ini makan dengan pikiran mereka, tidak dengan tubuh mereka"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"Kebudayaan yang benar dilahirkan di alam, sederhana, rendah hati, dan murni"

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

"I wonder how it is that people's philosophies have come to spin faster than the changing seasons."

-Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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2. Dream Work

By: Mary Oliver

4.35

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

Dream Work, a collection of forty-five poems, follows both chronologically and logically Mary Olive… read more

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"I saw what love might have done had we loved in time."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"I wanted to live my life but I didn’t want to do what I had to do to go on,"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"Mostly, I want to be kind. And nobody, of course, is kind, or mean, for a simple reason."

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

"the black fox that lies down to sleep beneath you, the moon staring with her bone-white eye"

-Mary Oliver, Dream Work

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3. The Buddha in the Attic

By: Julie Otsuka

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Julie Otsuka’s long-awaited follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a tour de force of economy … read more

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"„Niekas nelaimi karo.Visi pralaimi"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"We lost weight and grew thin. We stopped bleeding. We stopped dreaming. We stopped wanting."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Or was their guilt written plainly, and for all the world to see, across their face? Was it their face, in fact, for which they were guilty?"

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

"Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs."

-Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic

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4. Grit

By: Angela Duckworth

4.67

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In this must-read book for anyone striving to succeed, pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth sho… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. Koreatown: A Cookbook

By: Deuki Hong , Matt Rodbard

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A collection of 100 recipes exploring the foods and flavors of Koreatown, a New York Timesbestselle… read more

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  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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6. Possession

By: A.S. Byatt , None

3.89

Format: 555 pages, Paperback

Winner of England's Booker Prize and the literary sensation of the year, Possession is an exhilarat… read more

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"To a dusty shelf we aspire."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"I wanted to be a Poet and a Poem."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?"

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

"Outside our small safe place flies mystery."

-A.S. Byatt, Possession

7. Home Cooking: A Writer in the Kitchen

By: Laurie Colwin

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Share the unsurpassed pleasures of discovering, cooking, and eating good, simple food with this bel… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction

8. Felicity

By: Mary Oliver

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in her new collection of poems "If I ha… read more

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9. Terra Nullius

By: Claire G. Coleman

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sen… read more

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10. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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11. Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

By: Dan Saladino

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Dan Saladino's Eating to Extinction is the prominent broadcaster’s pathbreaking tour of the world’s… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The science writer David Quammen puts it: 'When we disrupt ecosystems, we shake viruses loose from their natural hosts, and when they happens, they need a new host. Often, we are it. And so, they spi…"

-Dan Saladino, Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them

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12. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

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13. My Darkest Prayer

By: S.A. Cosby

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is rep… read more

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14. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

By: Dolly Parton

4.03

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"My coat of many colors that my mama made for me, Made only from rags, but I wore it so proudly. Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be. In my coat of many colors my mama made for me…"

-Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics

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16. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

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"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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17. The Better Half

By: Alli Frank

3.89

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. Wi… read more

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18. The Weekday Vegetarians: 100 Recipes and a Real-Life Plan for Eating Less Meat: A Cookbook

By: Jenny Rosenstrach

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

You don't need to be a vegetarian to eat like one! With over 100 recipes, the New York Times bestse… read more

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  • foodie
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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19. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

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20. Florida

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

The stories in this collection span characters, towns, decades, even centuries, but Florida—its lan… read more

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"All things nauseating and deadly are American, apparently. Well, okay, she can't disagree."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"She's a novelist, which is tantamount to being a one woman card catalogue for useless knowledge."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"Of all the places in the world, she belongs in Florida. How dispiriting to learn this of herself."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

"She is exhausting to everyone. She would take a break from herself, too, but she doesn't have that option."

-Lauren Groff, Florida

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21. The Family Chao

By: Lan Samantha Chang

3.35

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized … read more

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"Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves."

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For ev…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"In Alf's close-up, he's less than a year old, almost unrecognizably puppyish. He gazes directly at James, head slightly cocked, bat ears unfolded in typical, unceasing alertness. His small black nose…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with t…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

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22. Have You Eaten Yet? Stories from Chinese Restaurants Around the World

By: Cheuk Kwan

3.57

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

From Haifa, Israel, to Cape Town, South Africa, Chinese entrepreneurs and restaurateurs have brough… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

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"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

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24. Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

By: Margo Jefferson

3.77

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperament… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. 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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  • history
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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26. Jubilee: Recipes from Two Centuries of African American Cooking

By: Toni Tipton-Martin

4.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Throughout her career, Toni Tipton-Martin has shed new light on the history, breadth, and depth of … read more

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  • food
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Cover of Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3) by Mia P. Manansala

27. Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

By: Mia P. Manansala

3.73

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

When her long lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows th… read more

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  • food
"If you've turned up after all these years just to break Tita Rosie's heart again, I'll kill you. I'm serious. And Ate Bernie will help me hide the body," I said, bringing up his ex-girlfriend and my …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"My aunt said a quick grace, then everyone helped themselves to the myriad dishes on the table: chicken afritada, bangus a la pobre, adobong pusit, beef nilaga, lumpiang togue, kang-kong in oyster sau…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"I slid the cookie platter in front of them, which contained the four holiday cookies I'd come up with as well as peach-mango crumble cookies, my special of the day. The buttery, sweet base was topped…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"I pulled one of my individual buko pandan trifles out of the refrigerated tote bag I was carrying. Considering how little time I had to come up with the recipe, I was proud of how they'd turned out: …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

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28. A Splash of Soy: Everyday Food from Asia

By: Lara Lee

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Simple beautiful food to electrify the tastebuds.” - Meera Sodha From the internationally celebra… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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29. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

By: Alex Mar

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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30. Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day

By: Alexander Smalls

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Between Harlem and Heaven presents a captivatingly original cuisine. Afro-Asian-American cooking i… read more

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Cover of South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations by Sean Brock

31. South: Essential Recipes and New Explorations

By: Sean Brock

4.32

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller and James Beard Award Finalist Named One of the Ten Best Cookbooks of 20… read more

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