5 Top science books like Of Cabbages and Kimchi: A Practical Guide to the World of Fermented Food by James Read

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Of Cabbages and Kimchi: A Practical Guide to the World of Fermented Food

By: James Read

4.70

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AW…

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1. Little Beach Street Bakery (Little Beach Street Bakery, #1)

By: Jenny Colgan

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Polly Waterford is recovering from a toxic relationship. Unable to afford their flat, she has to mo… read more

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  • food
"She is resisting the Internet idea...because she doesn't want to one day tell her children that she posted an ad on the Internet, interviewed twenty-five hopeful candidates, and finally their father …"

-Jenny Colgan, Little Beach Street Bakery (Little Beach Street Bakery, #1)

"Det var en underbart vacker kväll. Insekterna surrade och dansade över ängarna, strålkastarljuset fångade in dem när motorcykeln svängde i kurvorna. Himlen var violett och ofantlig och stjärnorna bör…"

-Jenny Colgan, Little Beach Street Bakery (Little Beach Street Bakery, #1)

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2. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.95

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more

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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

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3. Picnic at Hanging Rock

By: Joan Lindsay

3.67

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more

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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"

-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

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4. Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World

By: Jon Kabat-Zinn , J. Mark G. Williams , Danny Penman

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From one of the leading thinkers on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, a pioneering set of simple… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Places in Between

By: Rory Stewart

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Paperback

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Pers… read more

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  • nonfiction

6. Grief is the Thing with Feathers

By: Max Porter

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more

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7. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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8. Strangers

By: Taichi Yamada , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Set in the great human maelstrom of Tokyo, Strangersis a thinking man's ghost story. When Harada, a… read more

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9. Akira, Vol. 4

By: None , Katsuhiro Otomo , None

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The science fiction tale set in 2019 in Tokyo after the city was destroyed by World War III, follow… read more

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10. Magic Burns (Kate Daniels, #2)

By: Ilona Andrews

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Down in Atlanta, tempers - and temperatures - are about to flare... As a mercenary who cleans up af… read more

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11. Sourdough

By: Robin Sloan

3.76

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world… read more

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  • food
"Culture,"

-Robin Sloan, Sourdough

"It was a fungal party hellscape."

-Robin Sloan, Sourdough

"You went to Greenland...on purpose," Naz said."

-Robin Sloan, Sourdough

"I agree," Mona said. As if she had any choice."

-Robin Sloan, Sourdough

12. The Lacuna

By: Barbara Kingsolver

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City… read more

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13. First Bite: How We Learn to Eat

By: Bee Wilson

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

We are not born knowing what to eat; as omnivores it is something we each have to figure out for ou… read more

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14. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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15. Morgan Is My Name (Morgan le Fay, #1)

By: Sophie Keetch

4.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An atmospheric, feminist retelling of the early life of famed villainess Morgan le Fay, set against… read more

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"My name is Morgan. And there aren't enough words for all that I am."

-Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name (Morgan le Fay, #1)

"Do not apologize, Lady Morgan. Your decorum leaves a little to be desired, but never have I been able to fault your work. Never apologize for seeking further wisdom, or for being remarkable."

-Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name (Morgan le Fay, #1)

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16. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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17. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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18. Unsettled Ground

By: Claire Fuller

3.78

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant? What would you do to get it… read more

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19. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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20. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • science
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21. The Temple of Fortuna (Wolf Den Trilogy #3)

By: Elodie Harper

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The final instalment in Elodie Harper's Sunday Times bestselling Wolf Den Trilogy Amara's journe… read more

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22. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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  • food
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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23. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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24. The Good Wife of Bath

By: Karen Brooks

4.20

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary cla… read more

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"I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion."

-Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath

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25. The Shadow Cabinet (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #2)

By: Juno Dawson

4.25

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

In the second installment of Juno Dawson's irresistable fantasy trilogy (Lana Harper), a group of c… read more

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26. Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence through Shares and Stocks

By: Simran Kaur​

4.53

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Your step-by-step guide to financial independence―from the creator of the #1 investing education po… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Women are told we’re risk averse, but we’re not. We’re just risk aware."

-Simran Kaur​, Girls That Invest: Your Guide to Financial Independence through Shares and Stocks

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27. War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

By: Mikhail Zygar

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

From an award-winning Russian journalist, a brisk, clearly written history of Ukraine—from its emer… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

By: Juliet Annan

4.05

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’ Food ca… read more

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  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • food writing
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29. Dragon's Reach (The Keeper Origins, #1)

By: J.A. Andrews

4.41

Format: 614 pages, Kindle Edition

The truth is neither plain, nor simple. Sable, a reluctant thief from the slums, can feel truth … read more

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30. Le Fay (Morgan le Fay, #2)

By: Sophie Keetch

4.46

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Morgan surveys her life at an unhappy marriage and a vengeful husband determined to keep thei… read more

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31. Of Cabbages and Kimchi: A Practical Guide to the World of Fermented Food

By: James Read

4.70

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON FOOD BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AW… read more

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  • nonfiction
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Transform Your Habits

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Jon Kabat-Zinn , J. Mark G. Williams , Danny Penman

3.66

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3.89

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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4.35

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