8 Top food books like The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner

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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 …

"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

If you liked the food plot in The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading by Dwight Garner , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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2. The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

By: Kevin Baker

4.39

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Baker's The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • nonfiction
Cover of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

3. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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4. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • audiobook
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5. All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess

By: Becca Rothfeld

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed debut author's glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in culture in favor of… read more

Similar categories in Becca Rothfeld's All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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6. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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7. 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

Similar categories in Ruth Reichl's The Paris Novel book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • food
  • audiobook
"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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8. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's I Must Be Dreaming book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury by Geraldine DeRuiter

9. If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury

By: Geraldine DeRuiter

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the James Beard Award–winning blogger behind The Everywhereist come hilarious, searing essays … read more

Similar categories in Geraldine DeRuiter's If You Can't Take the Heat: Tales of Food, Feminism, and Fury book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
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10. 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

Similar categories in Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • essays
  • books about books
  • food writing
"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

Cover of Great Expectations by Vinson Cunningham

11. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

Similar categories in Vinson Cunningham's Great Expectations book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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12. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • audiobook
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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13. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

By: Bianca Bosker

4.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more

Similar categories in Bianca Bosker's Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."

-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See

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14. 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

Similar categories in Jane Bertch's The French Ingredient: A Memoir book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • cooking
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • food
  • food writing
Cover of Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food by Fuchsia Dunlop

15. Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

By: Fuchsia Dunlop

4.26

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The world’s most sophisticated gastronomic culture, brilliantly presented through a banquet of thir… read more

Similar categories in Fuchsia Dunlop's Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In cooking as with love, it's not easy to ensure that both ingredients reach their climaxes of perfection simultaneously."

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Appetite for food and sex is human nature, shi se xing ye ,' as the philosopher Gaozi said. Or, as the popular saying derived from the Book of Rites puts it: 'Eat, drink, man, woman' ( yin shi nan nü…"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"A successful dish, as my cooking school teachers always used to say, must hit all the targets of se, xiang, wei, xing – colour, fragrance, flavour and form. It should first delight the eyes with its …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

"Trying to categorize Chinese regional cuisines makes me dizzy. You can travel and travel and travel around China and taste new foods every single day, which is pretty much what I have been doing for …"

-Fuchsia Dunlop, Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food

Cover of The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes by Mark Kurlansky

16. The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes

By: Mark Kurlansky

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times- bestselling author of Cod and Salt , a delectable look at the cultural, hi… read more

Similar categories in Mark Kurlansky's The Core of an Onion: Peeling the Rarest Common Food―Featuring More Than 100 Historical Recipes book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

17. 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

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press by Calvin Trillin

18. The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press

By: Calvin Trillin

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, opinionated portrait of journalism and the people who make it, told through pieces c… read more

Similar categories in Calvin Trillin's The Lede: Dispatches from a Life in the Press book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
Cover of The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America by Sara B. Franklin

19. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

20. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • audiobook
Cover of Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls by Susan Seidelman

21. Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

By: Susan Seidelman

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The funny and insightful first-person story of the trailblazing movie director of the 80s and 90s … read more

Similar categories in Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls book and Dwight Garner's The Upstairs Delicatessen: On Eating, Reading, Reading About Eating, and Eating While Reading

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie. Another takeaway was a case of …"

-Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

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