14 Top memoir books like Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life by

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Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life

By:

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Embrace the joy of Paris wherever you live with American expat Ajiri Aki, founder of the French lif…

If you liked the memoir plot in Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life by , here is a list of 14 books like this:

1. Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

By: Anne Lamott

4.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of … read more

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2. Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

By: Allison Bornstein

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Define your style and use fashion as a tool for self-discovery  using the Three-Word Method and AB … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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3. Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life

By:

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Embrace the joy of Paris wherever you live with American expat Ajiri Aki, founder of the French lif… read more

Similar categories in 's Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life book and 's Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life

  • memoir
  • health
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • food and drink
  • self help
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4. How to Walk into a Room: The Art of Knowing When to Stay and When to Walk Away

By: Emily P. Freeman

4.01

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller If life were a house, then every room holds a story. What do we do when … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
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5. The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp

By: Leonie Swann

3.51

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

A quirky group of seniors attempts to solve one murder while covering up another—with the help of a… read more

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6. The Paris Novel

By: Ruth Reichl

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Ruth Reichl takes readers on an adventure of food, art, and fashion in 1980s Par… read more

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  • travel
  • france
"That is the most expensive spice in the world. It comes from the Valley of Flowers, where everyone's hands are red from separating the saffron from the blossoms. Each flower has just three strands, s…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The fat was bubbling in a pot on the stove. The potatoes went in, were snatched out, then plunged back in. They emerged crisp and golden; Richard sprinkled them with salt and piled them on a platter,…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"The oysters arrived on a deep bed of ice. She had never eaten an oyster, and she stared down at the platter. A ruffle of black encircled each opalescent heart; she thought of orchids. Triangles of le…"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

"A waiter set a small tart of caramelized pears before each of them and added a dab of licorice ice cream. Next came bananas topped with passion fruit and black pepper, little pirouettes of pleasure. …"

-Ruth Reichl, The Paris Novel

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7. My Hygge Home: How to Make Home Your Happy Place

By: Meik Wiking

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller The Little Book of Hygge, helps you turn your home into… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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8. The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

By: Dwight Garner

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Garner gathers a literary chorus to capture the joys of reading and eating in this comic, personal … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There's no verb for traveling while hopping from swimming pool to swimming pool. Perhaps "cheevering" would suffice."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

"A friend once told her that he had seen graffiti in a restaurant's men's room that read, "Gael Greene uses a thesaurus."

-Dwight Garner, The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

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9. Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

By: Shannon Reed

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and incisive exploration of the joys of reading from a teacher, bibliophile and Thurber… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I think, therefore, I cry..."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"Life is so much better with books than without."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"But reading! That I could do. When I read, I felt smart."

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

"The act of reading makes me feel safe. Not the book itself--but the exercise of running my eyes over the words. The translation from symbol into meaning. The direct, pleasant diction of the voice ins…"

-Shannon Reed, Why We Read: On Bookworms, Libraries, and Just One More Page Before Lights Out

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10. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris book and 's Joie: A Parisian's Guide to Celebrating the Good Life

  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • memoir
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11. Secrets of a Scottish Isle (Jane Wunderly, #5)

By: Erica Ruth Neubauer

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On an isolated isle off the western coast of Scotland, spirited American Jane Wunderly must investi… read more

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12. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • memoir
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13. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Heirloom Rooms: Soulful Stories of Home

By: Erin Napier

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Erin Napier, designer, host of HGTV’s Home Town, and author of Make Something Good Today, returns w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. An American in Provence: Art, Life and Photography

By: Jamie Beck

4.38

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Let Jamie Beck transport you to the South of France with An American in Provence: part art book, pa… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • memoir
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16. The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World

By: Cathy Yandell

3.40

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Bringing up Bebe and French Toast , Cathy Yandell's The French Art of Living We… read more

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  • memoir
  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • self help
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17. How to Not Always Be Working: A Toolkit for Creativity and Radical Self-Care

By: Marlee Grace

3.34

Format: 112 pages, ebook

This book is a quiet revolution, a guide filled with practical advice to help you curb your obsessi… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
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18. What's Gaby Cooking: Take It Easy: Recipes for Zero Stress Deliciousness

By: Gaby Dalkin

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In What’s Gaby Take It Easy , New York Times bestselling author Gaby Dalkin returns with her signa… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Murder Under the Mistletoe (Jane Wunderly Mysteries #4.5)

By: Erica Ruth Neubauer

4.10

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

Recently engaged Jane Wunderly is celebrating Christmas with her fiancé at his ancestral home at th… read more

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20. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

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  • food and drink
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Twilight Falls (Shady Hollow, #4)

By: Juneau Black

4.03

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

The fourth book in the Shady Hollow mystery series sees Vera embroiled in a case involving star-cro… read more

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"Coming from the city like you did, you must have been free of all that old-fashioned nonsense." - "As long as you live among others, you're never free of other ideas. That's what society means."

-Juneau Black, Twilight Falls (Shady Hollow, #4)

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22. The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society

By: Eleanor Janega

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

What makes for the ideal woman? How should she look, love, and be? In this vibrant, high-spirited h… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. I Curse You With Joy

By: Tiffany Haddish

3.95

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Tiffany Haddish is back with her highly anticipated new essay collection, I Curse You With Joy … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Representation isn’t just checking off boxes, it’s validating experience."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"What I was learning was, in its own fucked up way, no feelings was as bad as too many."

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"I wish that men got endometriosis. If it was painful when they ejaculated, you know they would find a cure immediately and every doctor would know what to do to make it less painful, even a foot doct…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

"Going through all that, taught me that you get to choose your response when you are afraid. You might not be able to control everything that happens to you but you do get to control how you respond t…"

-Tiffany Haddish, I Curse You With Joy

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24. Organized Living: Solutions and Inspiration for Your Home [A Home Organization Book]

By: Shira Gill

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Kickstart your organized life with this inspiring visual guide from the author of Minimalista . “A… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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25. CBK: Carolyn Bessette Kennedy: A Life in Fashion

By: Sunita Kamir Nair

3.67

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Fashion and creative director Sunita Kumar Nair presents Carolyn Bessette A Life in Fashion, which… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Right at Home: How Good Design Is Good for the Mind: An Interior Design Book

By: Bobby Berk

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The design expert and Emmy-nominated TV host of Netflix’s Queer Eye shows you how to set up your sp… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. 100 Ways to Live a Soft, Calm Life

By: Fiona Ferris

4.32

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

If you are someone who could use a little more serenity in your life and would love to enjoy the ev… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Beautiful: All-American Decorating and Timeless Style

By: Mark D. Sikes

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This New York Times bestselling book from interior designer Mark D. Sikes is a celebration of Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. How to Be French: Eat Drink Dress Travel Love

By: Janine Marsh

4.24

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Delve into the art of loving and living in every moment. What does it mean to be French? Is it pa… read more

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  • nonfiction

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Wear It Well: Reclaim Your Closet and Rediscover the Joy of Getting Dressed

Allison Bornstein

4.03

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Margaret Renkl

4.37

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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Amy Tan

4.14

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Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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