14 Top memoir books like The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes by Rick Bass

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The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

By: Rick Bass

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in …

If you liked the memoir plot in The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes by Rick Bass , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

By: Annie Dillard

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons—a personal narrative highlighting one year's e… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Innocence is a better world."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"The creatures I seek do not want to be seen."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I never saw a tree that was no tree in particular."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."

-Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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2. The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection

By: Ruth Reichl , Robert Farrar Capon , Deborah Madison

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

From a passionate and talented chef who also happens to be an Episcopalian priest comes this surpri… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Reichl's The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection book and Rick Bass's The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

  • food
  • nonfiction
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3. My Southern Journey: True Stories from the Heart of the South

By: Rick Bragg

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From celebrated New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, com… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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4. Priestdaddy: A Memoir

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. A Gambler's Anatomy

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.93

Format: None pages,

Handsome, impeccably tuxedoed Bruno Alexander travels the world winning large sums of money from am… read more

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  • audiobook
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6. Books for Living

By: Will Schwalbe

4.15

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the best-selling and beloved The End of Your Life Book Club - a wonderfully enga… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook

7. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts

By: Neil W. White III

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

White bought into the modern American Dream, hook, line, and sinker. By the time he was in his earl… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

8. The Stars at Noon

By: Denis Johnson

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Nicaragua in 1984, The Stars at Noonis a story of passion, fear, and betrayal told in the vo… read more

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9. Desert Solitaire

By: Edward Abbey

4.00

Format: None pages,

When Desert Solitairewas first published in 1968, it became the focus of a nationwide cult. Rude an… read more

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10. Earth Abides

By: George R. Stewart

3.44

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A disease of unparalleled destructive force has sprung up almost simultaneously in every corner of … read more

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11. The Largesse of the Sea Maiden: Stories

By: Denis Johnson

3.40

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

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12. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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13. The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.71

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

America's national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappea… read more

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14. The Survival of the Bark Canoe

By: John McPhee

5.00

Format: 87 pages,

In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt ma… read more

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15. The Imaginary Girlfriend

By: John Irving

3.85

Format: None pages,

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriendis… read more

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16. The Imperfectionists

By: Tom Rachman

4.07

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy… read more

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17. Blow Fly (Kay Scarpetta, #12)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.71

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Fearing that she is about to be fired by the governor, hounded in the media and in the courtroom, K… read more

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18. Somehow: Thoughts on Love

By: Anne Lamott

3.95

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I don’t know"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"

-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love

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19. Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather

By: Benjamin Taylor

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant explorati… read more

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  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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20. I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

By: Anne Bogel

4.02

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our boo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Just as I’m all the ages I have been, I’m all the readers I have been."

-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

"For everyone who’s ever finished a book under the covers with a flashlight when they were supposed to be sleeping."

-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

"A good book, when we return to it, will always have something new to say. It's not the same book, and we're not the same reader"

-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

"With apologies to Kathleen Kelly, what I've come to learn is this: if my real life reminds me of something I read in a book , I'm reading well -- and I'm probably living well, too."

-Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

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21. Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home

By: Doug Peacock

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.” Edward Abbey In a collection of grip… read more

Similar categories in Doug Peacock's Was It Worth It?: A Wilderness Warrior's Long Trail Home book and Rick Bass's The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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22. An American Childhood

By: Annie Dillard

3.91

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • writing
"I myself was both observer and observable, and so a possible object of my own humming awareness."

-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."

-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

"Knowing you are alive is watching on every side your generation's short time falling away as fast as rivers drop through air, and feeling it hit."

-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

"Those of us who read carried around with us like martyrs a secret knowledge, a secret joy and a secret hope: There is a life worth living where history is still taking place; there are ideas worth dy…"

-Annie Dillard, An American Childhood

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23. Ridgeline

By: Michael Punke

4.28

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling, long-awaited return of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Revenant. … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

24. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

Similar categories in Griffin Dunne's The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir book and Rick Bass's The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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25. Freedom

By: Sebastian Junger

3.76

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A profound rumination on the concept of freedom from the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One of God’s greatest oversights is that dogs don’t live as long as man."

-Sebastian Junger, Freedom

"Christianity is a high moral system based on the preaching of a destitute ascetic."

-Sebastian Junger, Freedom

"In the long run, early failure is probably just as great a generator of freedom as early success."

-Sebastian Junger, Freedom

"...scripture: a true and honest accounting of everything that underlies the frantic performance of life."

-Sebastian Junger, Freedom

Cover of Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1) by Nathan W. Pyle

26. Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

By: Nathan W. Pyle

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and pr… read more

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"Where is your pain? In my emotions. I don't understand. No one ever does."

-Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet (Strange Planet, #1)

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27. Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8)

By: James Herriot

4.49

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

For more than twenty years, James Herriot has captivated millions of readers and television viewers… read more

Similar categories in James Herriot's Every Living Thing (All Creatures Great and Small, #8) book and Rick Bass's The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Sun House

By: David James Duncan

3.86

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

An epic comedy about love, spirit, and the quest for transcendence in an anything-but-transcendent … read more

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  • audiobook
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29. The Patch

By: John McPhee

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An "album quilt," an artful assortment of nonfiction writings by John McPhee that have not previous… read more

Similar categories in John McPhee's The Patch book and Rick Bass's The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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30. The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

By: Rick Bass

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From his bid to become Eudora Welty's lawn boy to the time George Plimpton offered to punch him in … read more

Similar categories in Rick Bass's The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes book and Rick Bass's The Traveling Feast: On the Road and at the Table with My Heroes

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • culinary
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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31. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

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  • audiobook

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3.52

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3.50

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3.93

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4.15

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4.51

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4.43

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3.76

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