Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
By: Patricia Volk
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Patricia Volk's delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and won…
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1. Trying to Float: Coming of Age in the Chelsea Hotel
By: Nicolaia Rips
3.53
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
“Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise—a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly ca… read more
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- biography
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2. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
By: Bill Buford
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Bill Buford—author of the highly acclaimed best-selling Among the Thugs— had long thought of himsel… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- food writing
"The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"In normal life, "simplicity" is synonymous with "easy to do," but when a chef uses the word, it means "takes a lifetime to learn."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"You can't do traditional work at a modern pace. Traditional work has traditional rhythms. You need calm. You can be busy, but you must remain calm."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
"Food made by hand is an act of defiance and runs contrary to everything in our modernity. Find it; eat it; it will go. It has been around for millennia. Now it is evanescent, like a season."-Bill Buford, Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany
3. Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story
By: Isabel Gillies
3.49
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Isabel Gillies had a wonderful life -- a handsome, intelligent, loving husband; two glorious toddle… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and…"-Isabel Gillies, Happens Every Day: An All-Too-True Story
4. Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India
By: Madhur Jaffrey
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Today's most highly regarded writer on Indian food gives us an enchanting memoir of her childhood i… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
- food
5. Sarum: The Novel of England
By: Edward Rutherfurd
4.08
Format: 912 pages, Paperback
Sarum: The Novel of England - a novel that traces the entire turbulent course of English history. … read more
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6. Glitter and Glue
By: Kelly Corrigan
3.84
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A new memoir that examines the bond—sometimes nourishing, sometimes exasperating, occasionally divi… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"It's easy to love kids who make you feel competent."-Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
"Pel-i-cans, their beaks hold more than their bellies can."-Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
"It may be that loving children, radically and beyond reason, expands our capacity to love others, particularly our own mothers."-Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
"And it occurs to me that maybe the reason my mother was so exhausted all the time wasn’t because she was doing so much but because she was feeling so much."-Kelly Corrigan, Glitter and Glue
7. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
By: Kathleen Flinn
3.68
Format: 205 pages,
In 2003, Kathleen Flinn, a thirty-six-year-old American living and working in London, returned from… read more
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- cooking
- food
- nonfiction
8. Floor Sample
By: Julia Cameron
5.00
Format: 362 pages, Hardcover
A beautifully crafted memoir by the woman who has helped thousands of people uncover their creative… read more
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9. Jane Bites Back (Jane Fairfax, #1)
By: Michael Thomas Ford
3.89
Format: 7 pages, Paperback
Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves--but… read more
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10. Dear Committee Members
By: Julie Schumacher
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Hardcover
Finally, a novel that puts the "pissed" back into "epistolary." Jason Fitger is a beleaguered profe… read more
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11. More Home Cooking: A Writer Returns to the Kitchen
By: Laurie Colwin
3.64
Format: None pages, Paperback
More Home Cooking,like its predecessor, Home Cooking,is an expression of Laurie Colwin's lifelong p… read more
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- cooking
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- food writing
12. Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen: How One Girl Risked Her Marriage, Her Job, and Her Sanity to Master the Art of Living
By: Julie Powell
4.00
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
With the humor of Bridget Jones and the vitality of Augusten Burroughs, Julie Powell recounts how s… read more
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- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
13. 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
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- nonfiction
14. Stuffed: Adventures of a Restaurant Family
By: Patricia Volk
3.94
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
Patricia Volk's delicious memoir lets us into her big, crazy, loving, cheerful, infuriating and won… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- cooking
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- food
- food writing
15. Autobiography of a Face
By: Lucy Grealy
3.69
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years bei… read more
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16. Then We Came to the End
By: Joshua Ferris
4.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
The characters in Then We Came To The End cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: th… read more
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17. 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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18. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
By: James McBride
3.69
Format: 176 pages,
Touches readers of all colors as a vivid portrait of growing up, a haunting meditation on race and … read more
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19. Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me
By: Bernie Taupin
3.58
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
** NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** An evocative, clear-eyed, and revealing memoir by Bernie Taupin, th… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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20. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
By: Kathleen Hanna
4.46
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more
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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk
21. The Yellow House
By: Sarah M. Broom
3.90
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhoo… read more
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"We own what belongs to us whether we claim it or not."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"Absences allow us one power over them. They do not speak a word. We say of them what we want. Still, they hover, pointing fingers at our backs."-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"...the house was not tethered to its foundation, that what held the house to its foundation of sill on piers, wood on bricks, was the weight of us all in the house, the weight of the house itself, th…"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
"When the house fell down, it can be said, something in me opened up. Cracks help a house resolve internally its pressures and stresses, my engineer friend had said. Houses provide a frame that bears …"-Sarah M. Broom, The Yellow House
22. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain
By: Andrew McCarthy
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following New York Times bestselling author and ac… read more
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23. 100 Places to See After You Die: A Travel Guide to the Afterlife
By: Ken Jennings
3.30
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From New York Times bestselling author and legendary Jeopardy! host and champion Ken Jennings comes… read more
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- nonfiction
24. Rebel Rising
By: Rebel Wilson
3.91
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more
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- biography
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"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising
25. Small Fry: A Memoir
By: Lisa Brennan-Jobs
3.80
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Born on a farm and named in a field by her parents--artist Chrisann Brennan and Steve Jobs--Lisa Br… read more
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26. Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
By: John Hodgman
4.04
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on f… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
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"There is no peace in dying."-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
"Raccoons are beyond fear, and they are assholes."-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
"Maine is a beautiful place that I paradoxically want to hoard to myself and share with everyone I meet."-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
"...not everything in life is unpleasant, but most of it is, and certainly all of things that lead to real and lasting pleasure are."-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
27. Living the Artist's Way
By: Julia Cameron
3.46
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
A new Artist’s Way program that teaches readers how to seek and accept guidance, from "the Queen of… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World
By: Yepoka Yeebo
3.79
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
29. Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival
By: Spencer Schneider
3.53
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
They took an oath of absolute secrecy and lived in a covert world in plain sight. “It didn’t loo… read more
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- memoir
"I was a member of the Gans group for over 20 years. I didn't realize it was really a cult until I took the step, out the door. Ironically, that's when I finally felt and tasted the very freedom that …"-Spencer Schneider, Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival
"...There were dozens of construction projects where members were coerced into working in dangerous conditions for free...We were paying for the privilege of being forced to build for Sharon and other…"-Spencer Schneider, Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival
30. Hestia Strikes a Match
By: Christine Grillo
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and … read more
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"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calend…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Be…"-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match
31. Unmasked: A Memoir
By: Andrew Lloyd Webber
3.79
Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition
"You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of… read more
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