19 best-selling nonfiction books like You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1) by Chris Ying

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You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1)

By: Chris Ying

4.20

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food MattersNamed one of the Best Food Books o…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1) by Chris Ying , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Juliet Takes a Breath

By: Gabby Rivera

4.17

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bronx and headed to Portland, Oregon. She just came out to h… read more

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"Read because you’re tired of secrets."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"But it was August and what does love mean at the end of a summer?"

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"I understood 'microaggressions' to mean 'little bullshit acts of racism."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

"How was I supposed to survive here? These Portlanders were an entirely different breed of white people."

-Gabby Rivera, Juliet Takes a Breath

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2. The Making of Asian America: A History

By: Erika Lee , Erika Lee

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of Asian Americans by one of the nation’s preeminent scholars on the subject… read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Frog and Toad Together (Frog and Toad, #2)

By: Arnold Lobel

4.25

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Frog and Toad are best friends—they do everything together. When Toad admires the flowers in Frog's… read more

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"I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing,"

-Arnold Lobel, Frog and Toad Together (Frog and Toad, #2)

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4. The Killer Inside Me

By: Jim Thompson

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more

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5. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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  • nonfiction

6. The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

By: Anthony Bourdain

4.15

Format: 384 pages,

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7. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

By: Michael Pollan

3.89

Format: 266 pages,

Michael Pollan's last book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the Amer… read more

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8. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described… read more

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9. The Killing Moon (Dreamblood, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In the ancient city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law. Upon its rooftops and amongst the sha… read more

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10. Frog and Toad All Year (Frog and Toad, #3)

By: Arnold Lobel

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Friends all year. In winter, spring, summer, and fall, Frog and Toad are always together. Here is a… read more

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11. Frog and Toad Are Friends (Frog and Toad, #1)

By: Arnold Lobel

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

Celebrate the power of friendship with Frog and Toad--a Caldecott Honor Book! From writing letters … read more

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12. Eight Flavors: The Untold Story of American Cuisine

By: Sarah Lohman

3.00

Format: None pages,

This unique culinary history of America offers a fascinating look at our past and uses long-forgott… read more

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13. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

By: Michael Pollan

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
"Memory is the enemy of wonder"

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"For great many species today, “fitness"

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

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14. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

By: Kelly Weinersmith

4.06

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more

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  • nonfiction
"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"

-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?

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15. Cosmic Detective

By: Jeff Lemire

3.48

Format: 168 pages, ebook

In a dark and grimy city, an unnamed detective gets called to a local murder, something unlikely an… read more

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16. On Lighthouses

By: Jazmina Barrera

3.88

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

For celebrated writer Jazmina Barrera, humanity’s fascination with the ocean is an invitation to ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"La colección más grande que tengo es la de libros. De niña solía leerlos el mismo día que los compraba. Hasta mi adolescencia, todos los ejemplares que tenía los había leído. Llegó un momento en que …"

-Jazmina Barrera, On Lighthouses

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17. Black Food: Stories, Art, and Essays

By: Bryant Terry

4.45

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

"A beautiful, rich, and groundbreaking book exploring Black foodways within America and around the … read more

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  • cultural
  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing
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18. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

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19. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

By: Serhii Plokhy

4.23

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The Soviets had to choose whether to show Blix the toilet facilities and hide the super-secret radar or vice versa."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

"The world has already been overwhelmed by one Chernobyl and one exclusion zone. It cannot afford any more. It must learn its lessons from what happened in and around Chernobyl on April 26, 1986."

-Serhii Plokhy, Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

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20. We hebben het over je gehad

By: Stéphanie Hoogenberk

3.36

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Liefde kan ingewikkeld zijn, maar vriendschap is nog een stuk lastiger. Wat doe je als je al tweeë… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography

By: Laurie Woolever

4.21

Format: 442 pages, Hardcover

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew … read more

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  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • culinary
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22. Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

By: Craig Foster

4.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests off South … read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. American Comics: A History

By: Jeremy Dauber

3.77

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American ima… read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

By: Sarah Schulman

4.52

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years in the making, Sarah Schulman's Let the Record Show is the most comprehensive politica… read more

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  • nonfiction
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25. Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook

By: Sohla El-Waylly

4.48

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

Change the way you think about cooking! In this epic guide to better eating, the chef, recipe devel… read more

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  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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26. Magical Negro

By: Morgan Parker

4.31

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Magical Negro is an archive of Black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnog… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. How to Read Now

By: Elaine Castillo

4.03

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

How to Read Now explores the politics and ethics of reading, and insists that we are capable of som… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"When artists bemoan the rise of political correctness in our cultural discourse, what they’re really bemoaning is the rise of this unexpected reader. They’re bemoaning the arrival of someone who does…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"When white readers claim to be made uncomfortable—as many I heard from claimed—by the presence of something like untranslated words in fiction, what they’re really saying is: I have always been the e…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"I realize now that being an unexpected reader has turned out to be the most valuable gift of my intellectual life. The fact that I was an unexpected reader—an interloper, in so many worlds—meant that…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

"[T]he idea that some of us can simply opt out of politics—the idea that politics is something one chooses as a vocation, rather than something we have whether we choose it or not; something that enco…"

-Elaine Castillo, How to Read Now

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28. The Stonewall Reader

By: New York Public Library

4.36

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fig… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Defend the fairies!"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"This place was the “ART"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"I just want you all to know,"

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

"You can’t call us fags anymore, we’re gay."

-New York Public Library, The Stonewall Reader

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29. Food-Related Stories

By: Gaby Melian

3.65

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • food
  • foodie
  • essays
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30. You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1)

By: Chris Ying

4.20

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner, 2019 IACP Award for Best Book of the Year in Food MattersNamed one of the Best Food Books o… read more

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  • cultural
  • food history
  • foodie
  • culinary
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • food writing
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31. Chop Fry Watch Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food

By: Michelle T. King

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable food-infused cultural history, centered on the life of celebrity television chef and c… read more

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  • cultural
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • cookbooks

6 best-selling essays books like You and I Eat the Same: On the Countless Ways Food and Cooking Connect Us to One Another (MAD Dispatches, Volume 1) by Chris Ying

Transform Your Habits

On Lighthouses

Jazmina Barrera

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Black Food: Stories, Art, and Essays

Bryant Terry

4.45

Transform Your Habits

How to Read Now

Elaine Castillo

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Stonewall Reader

New York Public Library

4.36

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21 Top fiction books like Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

None

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Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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