10 Top memoir books like Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by Sara Roahen

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Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

By: Sara Roahen

4.00

Format: 45 pages,

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1. Salt: A World History

By: Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Format: None pages,

From the Bestselling Author of Cod and The Basque History of the World In his fifth work of nonfict… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum

2. Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans

By: Dan Baum

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The hidden history of a haunted and beloved city told through the intersecting lives of nine remark… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

By: Andrei Codrescu

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

For two decades NPRcommentator Andrei Codrescu has been living in and writing about his adopted cit… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
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4. The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld

By: Christine Wiltz

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

By: Sara Roahen

4.00

Format: 45 pages,

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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6. Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories with Recipes

By: Maya Angelou

4.00

Format: 199 pages,

Throughout Maya Angelou's life, food has played a key role at important moments. In this text she n… read more

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  • memoir
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • memoir
  • travel
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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8. Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot , Edmund White

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

George Eliot's final novel and her most ambitious work, Daniel Derondacontrasts the moral laxity of… read more

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9. Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans

By: Gary Krist

4.38

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war… read more

Similar categories in Gary Krist's Empire of Sin: A Story of Sex, Jazz, Murder, and the Battle for Modern New Orleans book and Sara Roahen's Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

  • nonfiction
Cover of Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste by Bianca Bosker

10. Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

By: Bianca Bosker

3.79

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Anthony Bourdain, Susan Orlean, and Mary Roach, a surprising, entertaining and hilar… read more

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  • food
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

11. A Kind of Freedom

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War Two. Her family… read more

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12. Dinner at Antoine's

By: Frances Parkinson Keyes

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

A mystery set at Antoine's, the famous New Orleans restaurant that has been a landmark since 1840. … read more

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13. Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef

By: Gabrielle Hamilton

4.00

Format: 274 pages,

Before Gabrielle Hamilton opened her acclaimed New York restaurant Prune, she spent twenty hard-liv… read more

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14. Juno Loves Legs

By: Karl Geary

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Juno loves Legs. She's loved him since their first encounter at school in Dublin, the time she foug… read more

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15. 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
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16. My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

4.20

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

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17. Five Decembers

By: James Kestrel

4.43

Format: 429 pages, Hardcover

December 1941: America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe M… read more

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"Aishitemasu"

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

"It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong."

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

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18. A Bakery in Paris

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of The School for German Brides, this captivating historical novel set in nineteent… read more

Similar categories in Aimie K. Runyan's A Bakery in Paris book and Sara Roahen's Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

  • food
Cover of Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer

19. Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

By: Lara Prior-Palmer

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk, this is the extraordinary debut memoir of a young woma… read more

Similar categories in Lara Prior-Palmer's Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race book and Sara Roahen's Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Sport is war in disguise."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Horse lovers have excessive feeling."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Horse smell is the same the world over"

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

"Maybe home is just all that we leave behind."

-Lara Prior-Palmer, Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race

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20. A Most Agreeable Murder

By: Julia Seales

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When a wealthy bachelor drops dead at a ball, a young lady takes on the decidedly improper role of … read more

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"Beatrice watched as Miss Bolton snaked a hand into her hat and withdrew a biscuit."

-Julia Seales, A Most Agreeable Murder

"Languages, such as French and Italian *One may speak French, but one must never travel to France."

-Julia Seales, A Most Agreeable Murder

"Page three hundred and four of The Lady's Guide," Beatrice replied. "Ladies are permitted to handle balls while playing billiards."

-Julia Seales, A Most Agreeable Murder

"How did you not recognize her?" "She was wearing a wig!" Drake said defensively. "The same color as her hair!" Beatrice shot back."

-Julia Seales, A Most Agreeable Murder

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21. Number One Chinese Restaurant

By: Lillian Li

3.01

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving devoted regulars for decades… read more

Similar categories in Lillian Li's Number One Chinese Restaurant book and Sara Roahen's Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table

  • food

12 must-read nonfiction books like Gumbo Tales: Finding My Place at the New Orleans Table by Sara Roahen

Transform Your Habits

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans

Dan Baum

4.09

Transform Your Habits

New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

Andrei Codrescu

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld

Christine Wiltz

4.02

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14 best-selling nonfiction books like My Life in France by Julia Child, Alex Prud'Homme

Transform Your Habits

As Always, Julia: The Letters of Julia Child and Avis DeVoto

Joan Reardon , Avis DeVoto

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The French Chef in America: Julia Child's Second Act

Alex Prud'Homme

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

Ruth Reichl

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen

Jacques Pépin

2.50

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