Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene
By: Kim Reed
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp look at one woman’s nearly two decades in the New York City restaurant scene, includi…
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1. The Tennis Partner
By: Abraham Verghese
3.44
Format: 213 pages,
An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New Y… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
2. Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
By: Molly Brodak
4.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Raw, poetic and compulsively readable. In Molly Brodak's dazzling memoir, Bandit, her eye is so ho… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
3. Summer at Tiffany
By: Marjorie Hart
4.13
Format: 260 pages,
Do you remember the best summer of your life? New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best f… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
4. A Rip in Heaven
By: Jeanine Cummins
3.83
Format: None pages, Paperback
It was a headline story in the New York Timesand USA Today. It was covered by Court TVand profiled … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
5. Service Included: Four-Star Secrets of an Eavesdropping Waiter
By: Phoebe Damrosch
3.68
Format: None pages,
Kitchen Confidentialmeets Sex and the Cityin this delicious, behind-the-scenes memoir from the firs… read more
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6. Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs
By: Jamie Fiore Higgins
4.15
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rare, riveting insider’s account on Wall Street—an updated Liar’s Poker—where greed coupled with … read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
7. Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
By: Michael Cecchi-Azzolina
3.67
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A front-of-the-house Kitchen Confidential from a career maître d’hotel who manned the front of the … read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"It never fails, the most awful human beings, the power hungry, those with the least personality, kindness, and humanity, are general managers in restaurants."-Michael Cecchi-Azzolina, Your Table Is Ready: Tales of a New York City Maître D'
8. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
9. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education
By: Stephanie Land
3.62
Format: 285 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
10. Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
By: Minnie Driver
4.09
Format: 288 pages, ebook
A MARIE CLAIRE BEST MEMOIR OF THE YEAR - A USA TODAY MUST READ BOOK - A W MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"We all pretend until pretense becomes practiced and I suppose, looks like reality."-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
"I think again of that thing no one tells you about birth, that as your body offers up your child to the outside world your very first job as a mother is to let go. I really never thought about the fa…"-Minnie Driver, Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays
11. Fleishman Is in Trouble
By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner
3.64
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Recently separated Toby Fleishman is suddenly, somehow – and at age forty-one, short as ever – surr… read more
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- audiobook
"I went back to the bench and lit a cigarette and inhaled, the smoke entering my body and filling it with poison, with something."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"They became sophisticated in a way that she wasn’t-in a way she’d never be because sophistication is either your first language or you always have an accent in it."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"I didn’t like the dark matter part. I feel like you can’t just decide something must exist because everything’s reacting to it. You can’t just give it a name and hope it’s true."-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
"He understood divorce in a macro way, of course. But he had not yet adjusted to it in a micro way, in the other-side-of-the-bed-being-empty way, in the nobody-to-tell-you-were-running-late way, in th…"-Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman Is in Trouble
12. In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain
By: Tom Vitale
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
**Nominated for the 2022 BookTube Prize in Nonfiction** Anthony Bourdain's long time director and … read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
13. Dirt: Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking
By: Bill Buford
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt , an engrossing, beautifully written memoir a… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
14. Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)
By: Laura Dern
3.92
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “As actors, Dern and Ladd have spent decades peeling back layers to re… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
15. Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty
By: Anderson Cooper
3.82
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestsell… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
16. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend
By: Rob Copeland
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Catch Your Breath: The Secret Life of a Sleepless Anaesthetist
By: Ed Patrick
4.26
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
'Brilliantly funny.' - Matt Lucas'You have to read this book.' - Tim Harford'It's funny, touching a… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
18. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew
By: Maggie Bullock
4.02
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
19. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
By: Rabia Chaudry
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate me… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Every person, I'd argue, has the right to pursue what feeling good means to them."-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
"But when I dug deeper, I realized the self-loathing was less about what I looked like on the outside, and more about feeling out of control and helpless."-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
20. Notes from a Young Black Chef
By: Kwame Onwuachi
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A memoir from “the most important chef in America” ( San Francisco Chronicle ) and chef of Tatiana,… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
"Like stolen labor, this stew became part of a Southern culture whose origins rest on the corrupt scaffolding of slavery."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Nothing is a turnoff like a New York City housing authority kitchen. People want to hear about that once you're successful, not when you're living in it."-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
"Sometimes racism takes the form of ugly words and actions. Other times it remains unspoken, communicated by hostile looks and secret snickers. But the most corrosive form, and often the hardest to ad…"-Kwame Onwuachi, Notes from a Young Black Chef
21. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
By: Anderson Cooper
3.77
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
22. Happy People Are Annoying
By: Josh Peck
4.06
Format: 272 pages, ebook
A wonderfully candid memoir from one of the most recognizable faces of a generation, actor, writer,… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
23. The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up
By: Andy Cohen
3.87
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The Instant New York Times Bestseller! New York Times bestselling author Andy Cohen goes from bott… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
24. The Wharton Plot
By: Mariah Fredericks
3.38
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
Mariah Fredericks' mesmerizing novel, The Wharton Plot, follows renowned novelist Edith Wharton in … read more
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- audiobook
25. The Winner
By: Teddy Wayne
3.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more
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- audiobook
26. The Sunset Crowd
By: Karin Tanabe
3.39
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
From Rodeo Drive to the French Riviera, Karin Tanabe's The Sunset Crowd is a tale of survival and r… read more
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- audiobook
27. I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
By: Blythe Grossberg
3.41
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan’s elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
28. Mise en Place—Memoir of a Girl Chef
By: Marisa Mangani
4.15
Format: 276 pages, Paperback
Global Book Award winner in Women's Biographies Royal Palm Book Gold Award for Memoir Marisa’s… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"If I can do it, anyone can. Work at it: plow through the shit of life to get where you want to go if you have to. That's what we're here for, I think."-Marisa Mangani, Mise en Place—Memoir of a Girl Chef
29. Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City's Restaurant Scene
By: Kim Reed
3.63
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A razor-sharp look at one woman’s nearly two decades in the New York City restaurant scene, includi… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
30. Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
By: Ina Garten
4.60
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten—aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling co… read more
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- food
- nonfiction
- memoir
- audiobook
31. Oriana: A Novel: A Novel of Oriana Fallaci
By: Anastasia Rubis
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
When a Hollywood producer comes to Oriana at the end of her life to propose a movie, the story unfo… read more
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