14 Best cooking books like Simply West African: Easy, Joyful Recipes for Every Kitchen: A Cookbook by Pierre Thiam

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Simply West African: Easy, Joyful Recipes for Every Kitchen: A Cookbook

By: Pierre Thiam

4.07

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Experience the vibrant cuisines of West Africa any night of the week with 80 easy, accessible recip…

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1. The Little Paris Bookshop

By: Nina George , Simon Pare

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even … read more

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2. The Postcard

By: Anne Berest

4.37

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Choix Goncourt Prize, Anne Berest’s The Postcard is a vivid portrait of twentieth-cen… read more

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"It would be wrong to call them memories; they are moments of life, that man hat es erlebt - one has lived. They are inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say - but they're not memori…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

"After the war, women in orthodox Jewish families had made it their mission to have as many children as possible to replenish the population -- and it seemed to me that the same was true for books. Th…"

-Anne Berest, The Postcard

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3. Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.35

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is a birthday party.… read more

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"Love and freedom don't coexist."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"This is all there is to love? Simply by being in your life, I have added indelibly to its weight?"

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

"Have you been eating sand again?' [Cam asked] 'I haven't eaten sand in months', Nona protested, then more truthfully: 'Weeks,' and more truthfully than that: 'one week."

-Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3)

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4. Sheets (Sheets, #1)

By: Brenna Thummler

3.84

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

Marjorie Glatt feels like a ghost. A practical thirteen year old in charge of the family laundry bu… read more

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"patience is the thread of healing."

-Brenna Thummler, Sheets (Sheets, #1)

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5. The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.12

Format: 28 pages, ebook

Each of the Empire's houses keeps secrets, even from themselves. For the bookish academics of the S… read more

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"I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was"

-Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

"I get sick thinking about some idiot trying to wheedle insight on my apparatus criticus from my ghost long after I’ve forgotten what it was."

-Tamsyn Muir, The Mysterious Study of Doctor Sex (The Locked Tomb, #0.5)

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6. Unnatural History (Alex Delaware #38)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The most enduring detectives in American crime fiction are back in this electrifying thrillerof art… read more

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"Maybe attorneys attend schools where grades are based on how many word you put out."

-Jonathan Kellerman, Unnatural History (Alex Delaware #38)

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7. 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

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"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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8. Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files

By: Deb Perelman

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A collection of essential recipes for meals you'll want to prepare again and again, from Cozy Chick… read more

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9. No Two Persons

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.09

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s N… read more

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"All that matters is that we try. pg. 79"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Guilt is easier to drown in than any sorrow. pg. 245"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Always start with words. Words last. Tell me a secret from your day."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Did you know that otters sleep holding hands? All night long, so they don't lose each other."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

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10. Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews

3.62

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more

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"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

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11. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.29

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer stru… read more

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"Bones are mediocre."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I remember being eighteen."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"Your only settings were power-vomit and murder"

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

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12. Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s

By: B. Dylan Hollis

4.47

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A decade-by-decade cookbook that highlights the best (and a few of the worst) baking recipes from t… read more

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13. The Cookie That Changed My Life: And More Than 100 Other Classic Cakes, Cookies, Muffins, and Pies That Will Change Yours: A Cookbook

By: Nancy Silverton

3.56

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated baking bible from America's most respected 100+ recipes for cookies, cakes… read more

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14. Sweet Enough: A Dessert Cookbook

By: Alison Roman

4.22

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

A simple, stylish cookbook full of desserts that come together faster than you can eat them—from th… read more

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15. Solito

By: Javier Zamora

4.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young poet tells the story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at th… read more

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"We nod, and I notice stars beginning to pop behind his head."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Puedo sentir El Viaje en las plantas de mis pies. Lo veo en mis sueños."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"My chest like hummingbirds fighting for the hibiscus in Abuelita's garden."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

"Mom to my left, Dad to my right, a mosquito net like a crown covering all of us."

-Javier Zamora, Solito

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16. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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17. The General and Julia

By: Jon Clinch

3.82

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and… read more

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18. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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19. The Memory of Animals

By: Claire Fuller

3.61

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Un… read more

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"Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans."

-Claire Fuller, The Memory of Animals

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20. Still We Rise: A Love Letter to the Southern Biscuit with Over 70 Sweet and Savory Recipes

By: Erika Council

4.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A love letter to the Southern biscuit, honoring its place in Black culinary culture and beyond with… read more

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21. Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook

By: Illyanna Maisonet

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Over 90 delicious, deeply personal recipes that tell the story of Puerto Rico's Stateside diaspora … read more

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Cover of Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes by Bernadette Banner

22. Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes

By: Bernadette Banner

4.49

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

New York Times Bestseller Learn the Historically Proven Stitches Every Seamster Needs with Beloved… read more

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23. Korean American: Food that Tastes Like Home

By: Eric Kim

4.38

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An homage to what it means to be Korean American with delectable recipes that explore how new culin… read more

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"Getting a recipe out of my mother is like pulling teeth out of a tiger's mouth."

-Eric Kim, Korean American: Food that Tastes Like Home

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24. Portico: Cooking and Feasting in Rome's Jewish Kitchen

By: Leah Koenig

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of Food & Wine's Best Cookbooks of Fall 2023 A captivating tour through Rome’s centuries-old… read more

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25. How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more

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"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

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26. Chaat: Recipes from the Kitchens, Markets, and Railways of India: A Cookbook

By: Maneet Chauhan

3.97

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

“A sumptuous whistle-stop tour of India’s diverse food ways. Maneet has penned a love letter to the… read more

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27. Ever-Green Vietnamese: Super-Fresh Recipes, Starring Plants from Land and Sea [A Plant-Based Cookbook]

By: Andrea Nguyen

3.90

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Plant-based cooking meets the dynamic flavors of Vietnamese cuisine in these 125+ recipes and varia… read more

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28. Chili Crisp: 50+ Recipes to Satisfy Your Spicy, Crunchy, Garlicky Cravings

By: James Park

4.13

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

If you already love chili crisp, this book is for you. If you’re new to it, this book is for you. W… read more

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29. Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island

By: Emily Meggett

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The first major Gullah Geechee cookbook from “the matriarch of Edisto Island,” who provides delicio… read more

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30. My Vermont Table: Recipes for All (Six) Seasons

By: Gesine Bullock-Prado

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller Vermont―arguably the OG farm-to-table state―is celebrated thro… read more

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31. Simply West African: Easy, Joyful Recipes for Every Kitchen: A Cookbook

By: Pierre Thiam

4.07

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Experience the vibrant cuisines of West Africa any night of the week with 80 easy, accessible recip… read more

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