10 best-selling history books like A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce by Massimo Montanari

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A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce

By: Massimo Montanari

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Intellectually engaging and deliciously readable, a stereotype-defying history of how one of the mo…

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Cover of Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell

1. Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’ Bestselling author Bernard Co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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2. The Blessing

By: Nancy Mitford

3.79

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

With characteristically amusing malice, Mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as Gr… read more

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"How lucky I am! I could never have loved anybody else half as much.’‘I know.’‘Still, I wish you wouldn’t say “I know"

-Nancy Mitford, The Blessing

"Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual," said Madame Rocher, "he is still with his regiment, still only a captain. Of course, if it hadn't been for this wretched war, he would be at least a colonel…"

-Nancy Mitford, The Blessing

"A pair of young mothers now became the centre of interest. They had risen from their lying-in much sooner than the doctors would otherwise have allowed. (French doctors are always very good about rec…"

-Nancy Mitford, The Blessing

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3. Oranges

By: John McPhee

4.04

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • food
  • history
  • essays

4. Next: Piccolo libro sulla globalizzazione e sul mondo che verrà

By: Alessandro Baricco

3.76

Format: 6 pages, Paperback

Next: la prossima puntata del mondo. Sara la globalizzazione? Alessandro Baricco parte da qui. E si… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • italian literature

5. The Holocaust: A New History

By: Laurence Rees

3.97

Format: 12 pages, Hardcover

This book answers two fundamental questions about the Holocaust. How, and why, did it happen? Laure… read more

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6. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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7. Frappe-toi le coeur

By: Amélie Nothomb

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

<> Alfred de Musset read more

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Cover of Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca by Maria Grazia Calandrone

8. Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca

By: Maria Grazia Calandrone

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

1965. Un uomo e una donna, dopo aver abbandonato nel parco di Villa Borghese la figlia di otto mesi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • italian literature
Cover of Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento by Stefania Andreoli

9. Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

By: Stefania Andreoli

4.05

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

Che cosa significa essere adulti oggi? E come diventarlo? Se negli ultimi decenni l'identità adulta… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"E come Lei ben saprà, è un attimo sentirsi rotti, mal funzionanti, difettosi. Da lontano, in mezzo alla folla, L'ho ascoltata legittimare il mio essere una giovane adulta confusa. Lei non lo sa, ma i…"

-Stefania Andreoli, Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

"La paura, di cui questo libro contiene tracce ricorrenti nelle testimonianze dei suoi protagonisti (la paura del giudizio, la paura del fallimento, la paura di non divenire, la paura di affrancarsi, …"

-Stefania Andreoli, Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

"A ventidue anni aveva avuto conferma di una cosa che alcuni muoiono senza capire mai, ovvero che arriva per tutti un momento a partire dal quale o la tua vita la vivi tu oppure qualche abusivo si sen…"

-Stefania Andreoli, Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

"Giovanni, in proposito, mi ha detto: «Sono talmente confuso che non riesco a immaginarmelo, un domani. Non c'è nessun posto che faccia per me, nessuna condizione di vita nella quale mi vedo. Non mi è…"

-Stefania Andreoli, Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

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10. Dare la vita

By: Michela Murgia

4.17

Format: 128 pages, ebook

Si può essere madri di figlie e figli che si scelgono, e che a loro volta ci hanno scelte? Si può c… read more

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  • italian literature
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Dimmi che ami quello che di me cambia di continuo, e io potrò continuare a darti quello che di me davvero non cambia: la voglia di sceglierti ogni giorno in modo differente, come diversa sono io ogni…"

-Michela Murgia, Dare la vita

Cover of Frontiera: perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano by Francesco Costa

11. Frontiera: perché sarà un nuovo secolo americano

By: Francesco Costa

3.79

Format: 290 pages, ebook

C'è una storia che ascoltiamo da un po' di tempo, e descrive la più grande superpotenza del pianeta… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • italian literature
Cover of Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf by Malika Moustadraf

12. Blood Feast: The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf

By: Malika Moustadraf

3.83

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Malika Moustadraf (1969-2006) is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrat… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of This is Amiko, Do You Copy? by Natsuko Imamura

13. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.63

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more

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"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."

-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

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14. Cose spiegate bene. A proposito di libri

By: Arianna Cavallo

4.27

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A proposito di libri è il primo numero di Cose spiegate bene, la nuova rivista di carta del Post, r… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • italian literature
Cover of Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery #1) by Robbie Morrison

15. Edge of the Grave (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery #1)

By: Robbie Morrison

4.19

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Glasgow, 1932. When the son-in-law of one of the city’s wealthiest families is found floating in… read more

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Cover of Specchio delle mie brame: La prigione della bellezza by Maura Gancitano

16. Specchio delle mie brame: La prigione della bellezza

By: Maura Gancitano

4.13

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

La bellezza oggi è qualcosa di ben preciso a cui adeguarsi: un certo modo di vestire, di mangiare, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • italian literature
"Il bello è libero e davvero indipendente, non è una merce, non può essere consumato, non si fa pubblicità, non può essere posseduto, non provoca la noia e l’insoddisfazione che proviamo non appena co…"

-Maura Gancitano, Specchio delle mie brame: La prigione della bellezza

Cover of Narodila som sa pod šťastnou hviezdou by Elena Lacková

17. Narodila som sa pod šťastnou hviezdou

By: Elena Lacková

4.67

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Elena Lacková (1921 – 2003) ako jedna z prvých začala hovoriť o rómskom holokauste – resp. o utrpen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Dětem ve školách bylo zakazováno mluvit romsky. Přišla jsem osobně do styku s iniciativními učiteli, kteří vybírali korunu pokuty za každé „cikánské“ slovo. Viděla jsem v jednom dětském domově dohola…"

-Elena Lacková, Narodila som sa pod šťastnou hviezdou

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18. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

Cover of The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch

19. 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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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul   Fischer

20. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies

By: Paul Fischer

3.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A “spellbinding, thriller-like” ( Shelf Awarenes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas by Mark Kurlansky

21. Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

By: Mark Kurlansky

3.61

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Mark Kurlansky's first global food history since the bestselling Cod and Salt; the fascinating cult… read more

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  • food history
  • history
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
"Scientists estimate that between 1945 and 1958, the power of the nuclear weapons exploded in the world was equal to eight hundred times the power of the Hiroshima bomb. With each explosion, tiny part…"

-Mark Kurlansky, Milk! A 10,000-Year Food Fracas

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22. La matematica è politica

By: Chiara Valerio

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

La matematica rivista come prassi politica, e non solo come teoria, è un formidabile esercizio di d… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • italian literature
Cover of Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor Tobar

23. Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

By: Héctor Tobar

4.29

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new book by the Pulitzer Prize – winning writer about the twenty-first-century Latino experience … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts  and Pieces of the World under the Sea by Julia Rothman

24. Ocean Anatomy: The Curious Parts and Pieces of the World under the Sea

By: Julia Rothman

4.57

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Julia Rothman’s best-selling illustrated Anatomy series takes a deep dive into the wonders of the s… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life by Juliet Annan

25. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

By: Juliet Annan

4.05

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food and drink
Cover of La voglia dei cazzi e altri fabliaux medievali by Alessandro Barbero

26. La voglia dei cazzi e altri fabliaux medievali

By: Alessandro Barbero

3.93

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

“La fortuna critica dei fabliaux è andata regolarmente crescendo nel corso degli ultimi decenni. Il… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • italian literature
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27. La buona condotta

By: Elvira Mujcić

3.62

Format: 240 pages, ebook

All’indomani dell’indipendenza del Kosovo, in un piccolo paese sul confine si tengono le elezioni p… read more

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28. A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce

By: Massimo Montanari

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Intellectually engaging and deliciously readable, a stereotype-defying history of how one of the mo… read more

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  • food history
  • history
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • italian literature
  • adult
  • food and drink
  • audiobook
Cover of La cucina italiana non esiste. Bugie e falsi miti sui prodotti e i piatti cosiddetti tipici by Alberto Grandi

29. La cucina italiana non esiste. Bugie e falsi miti sui prodotti e i piatti cosiddetti tipici

By: Alberto Grandi

3.97

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

"Quando Gualtiero Marchesi, considerato il fondatore della nuova cucina italiana, negli anni Novant… read more

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Cover of The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes by Luca Cesari

30. The Discovery of Pasta: A History in Ten Dishes

By: Luca Cesari

3.93

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

What is Italy without pasta? Come to think of it, where would the rest of us be without this staple… read more

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  • history
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food and drink
Cover of Il mondo in un carrello: Come la nostra spesa cambia le sorti di ecologia, economia e cultura by Antonio Canu

31. Il mondo in un carrello: Come la nostra spesa cambia le sorti di ecologia, economia e cultura

By: Antonio Canu

3.17

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

C’è un luogo nelle nostre città in cui, volenti o nolenti, ci rechiamo tutti almeno una volta a set… read more

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11 best-selling audiobook books like A Short History of Spaghetti with Tomato Sauce by Massimo Montanari

Transform Your Habits

Waterloo: The True Story of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

Bernard Cornwell

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Dove non mi hai portata. Mia madre, un caso di cronaca

Maria Grazia Calandrone

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Perfetti o felici: Diventare adulti in un'epoca di smarrimento

Stefania Andreoli

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Dare la vita

Michela Murgia

4.17

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26 Best history books like The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul Fischer

Transform Your Habits

The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing

Damion Searls

3.73

Transform Your Habits

The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America

James L. Swanson

3.44

Transform Your Habits

Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More

James Burrows

3.86

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