11 best-selling nonfiction books like South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land by Julia Reed

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South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land

By: Julia Reed

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry andhumorous take on life and culture in the American South. In thinking about her native …

"Lots of words have been written about home being where your heart, your love, your dog, your parakeet, whatever, is. I get it—bricks and mortar don’t make a home and all that jazz … For me, home is where you find the touchstones of your life … … And that’s the thing about touchstones: Unlike a house, you can take them with you."

-Julia Reed, South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land

"Lots of words have been written about home being where your heart, your love, your dog, your parakeet, whatever, is. I get it—bricks and mortar don’t make a home and all that jazz … For me, home is where you find the touchstones of your life … … And that’s the thing about touchstones: Unlike a house, you can take them with you."

-Julia Reed, South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land

If you liked the nonfiction plot in South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land by Julia Reed , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4) by Ian Fleming

1. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

By: Ian Fleming

3.64

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more

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  • audiobook
"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt ve­ļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

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2. Letter from New York: BBC Woman's Hour Broadcasts

By: Helene Hanff

3.87

Format: 172 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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3. South Toward Home: Travels in Southern Literature

By: Margaret Eby

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

What is it about the South that has inspired so much of America's greatest literature? And why, whe… read more

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  • travel
  • southern
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

By: Helene Hanff

3.28

Format: 437 pages, Paperback

A zesty memoir of the celebrated writer's travels to England where she meets the cherished friends … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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5. Sullivan's Island (Lowcountry Tales, #1)

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

3.72

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

The New York Times bestseller--in paperback for the first time!Set in the steamy, stormy landscape … read more

Similar categories in Dorothea Benton Frank's Sullivan's Island (Lowcountry Tales, #1) book and Julia Reed's South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land

  • southern

6. Books

By: Larry McMurtry

3.52

Format: 257 pages,

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7. All Over But the Shoutin'

By: Rick Bragg

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a violent, war-haunted, alcoholic father and a strong-willed, loving mother who strugg… read more

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8. Beach Music

By: Pat Conroy

4.20

Format: 192 pages,

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9. Blackbird House

By: Alice Hoffman

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms u… read more

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10. How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

By: Harrison Scott Key

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Harrison Scott Key, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor, How to Stay Married tells … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He was "as deep as bro country and possessed all the charm of an unsalted potato."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"I play the drums, an instrument that has caused more divorces than any other musical instrument in history, after the banjo."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"The memories do not dissolve. They cohere into captivating art films that play endlessly in the International Infidelity Film Festival of my mind."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

"Coco will be gone in less than two years and Pippi and Ginsburg not long after, and then it'll just be the two of us again and this weird-ass marriage."

-Harrison Scott Key, How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

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11. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

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  • audiobook
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12. The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

By: James Patterson

3.92

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Booksellers and librarians are superheroes, saving lives every single day. Here are their amazing, … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Different books speak to us at different times."

-James Patterson, The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

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13. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Marilla of Green Gables

By: Sarah McCoy

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and mo… read more

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  • audiobook
"Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"There was power in knowledge. Like the gears of a steam engine, the more active knowledge was, the more force it produced."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Human hearts are full of strife. It's a fallen world, my dears. We can only do our best to establish safe havens where we can."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Just take a deep breath and go on in there with your head held high. Look for good things and good things [are] what you'll find..."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

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15. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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  • audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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17. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South

By: Rick Bragg

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin' and The Best Cook… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • southern
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Tupperware is the Wedgewood of the South."

-Rick Bragg, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South

"Mostly I love Halloween because it is the orange-and-black beginning of a season that tumbles into Thanksgiving, which tumbles into Christmas. And Zombies just seem a little out of place in that. Tha…"

-Rick Bragg, Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South

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19. Everybody's Favorite: Tales from the World's Worst Perfectionist

By: Lillian Stone

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From one of the Internet’s favorite self-deprecating commentators comes Everybody’s Favorite, a lau… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land by Julia Reed

20. South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land

By: Julia Reed

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry andhumorous take on life and culture in the American South. In thinking about her native … read more

Similar categories in Julia Reed's South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land book and Julia Reed's South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land

  • biography
  • memoir
  • travel
  • humor
  • cookbooks
  • southern
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Lots of words have been written about home being where your heart, your love, your dog, your parakeet, whatever, is. I get it—bricks and mortar don’t make a home and all that jazz … For me, home is w…"

-Julia Reed, South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land

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21. What in the World?!: A Southern Woman's Guide to Laughing at Life's Unexpected Curveballs and Beautiful Blessings

By: Leanne Morgan

4.59

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From dealing with your mean teenage daughter to rebelling against the latest diet trend, America’s … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

13 Best audiobook books like South Toward Home: Adventures and Misadventures in my Native Land by Julia Reed

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Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

Ian Fleming

3.64

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How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Harrison Scott Key

4.07

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The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

James Patterson

3.92

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4.14

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Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

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Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

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Allison Pataki

4.11

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