11 Top france books like Map of Another Town by M.F.K. Fisher

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Map of Another Town

By: M.F.K. Fisher

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘A glowing memoir of Provence’ New York Times M F K Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her dau…

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Cover of The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee

1. The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit

By: Helena Attlee

3.96

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Land Where Lemons Grow uses the colourful past of six different kinds of Italian citrus to tell… read more

Similar categories in Helena Attlee's The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • history
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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2. 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

Similar categories in None's Palestine book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence by Peter Mayle

3. Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence

By: Peter Mayle

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

With his national bestsellers A Year in Provenceand Toujours Provence, Peter Mayle gave new meaning… read more

Similar categories in Peter Mayle's Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • travel
  • food
  • france
Cover of Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste by Luke Barr

4. Provence, 1970: M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By: Luke Barr

2.50

Format: 62 pages, Hardcover

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coinci… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
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5. A Sport and a Pastime

By: James Salter , Reynolds Price

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

"As nearly perfect as any American fiction I know," is how Reynolds Price (The New York Times) desc… read more

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  • france
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6. My Life in France

By: Julia Child , Alex Prud'Homme

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

In her own words, here is the story of Julia Child's years in France, where she fell in love with F… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction
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7. A Year in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • france

8. In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

By: Sue Roe

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in b… read more

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9. Tender Is the Night

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

3.78

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Night is the tragic romance of the young… read more

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  • france
"My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"The price for his intactness was incompleteness."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."

-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

10. My Life So Far

By: Jane Fonda

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

"In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes th… read more

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11. Jews Don't Count

By: David Baddiel

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more

Similar categories in David Baddiel's Jews Don't Count book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • travel
  • food
  • france
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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13. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

Similar categories in Patrick Bringley's All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

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14. A Chateau Under Siege

By: Martin Walker

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

France's favourite country cop, Bruno, faces a dangerous threat to the town he polices and the peop… read more

Similar categories in Martin Walker's A Chateau Under Siege book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • france
Cover of Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth by Dan McCrum

15. Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

By: Dan McCrum

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'The financial investigation of the decade... Money Men instantly enters the canon of great financi… read more

Similar categories in Dan McCrum's Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • nonfiction
  • history
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16. The Night Hawks (Ruth Galloway, #13)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.27

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Ruth Galloway returns to the moody and beautiful landscape of North Norfolk to confront another … read more

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17. The Sicilian Inheritance

By: Jo Piazza

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and award-winning journalist Jo Piazza, comes a transporting novel rooted i… read more

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Cover of The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps by Ben Coates

18. The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

By: Ben Coates

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers,… read more

Similar categories in Ben Coates's The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
"All along the river, the people I spoke to were hard-working and deeply attached to the mental security blanket of having a decent house, clean car and steady job. They were relatively wealthy, but a…"

-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

"Several years of living in the Netherlands had reduced my innate English prudishness somewhat, but I still suffered from a typical Englishman's angst at public nudity. Cowering between the changing r…"

-Ben Coates, The Rhine: Following Europe's Greatest River from Amsterdam to the Alps

Cover of The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone

19. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

By: Daniel Stone

3.93

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the gl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • travel
  • food
  • nonfiction
"What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves."

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"In Naples, where pizza was invented, Fairchild tasted his first cheesy flatbread, a punishing food for first-timers, whose mouths could be scorched with hot, lavalike cheese. He was enchanted by the …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"The grape, of a variety known as sultanina, would ultimately grow best in the wet and temperate soil of California. America's region most climatically similar to the Mediterranean. Fairchild's sample…"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

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20. Scaffolding

By: Lauren Elkin

3.86

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apar… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • france
Cover of Map of Another Town by M.F.K. Fisher

21. Map of Another Town

By: M.F.K. Fisher

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘A glowing memoir of Provence’ New York Times M F K Fisher moved to Aix-en-Provence with her dau… read more

Similar categories in M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town book and M.F.K. Fisher's Map of Another Town

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • france
  • nonfiction

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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Chris Miller

4.44

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Oliver Bullough

4.00

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Javier Blas

4.34

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