Books similar like An Alphabet for Gourmets

National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home

The acclaimed international food writer and award-winning author of Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking explores the history and future of six of the world's most fascinating and iconic food cultures-…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Party

An irresistible novella about two sisters and a night that changes everything, from the master chronicler of our heart’s hidden desires.

‘Tessa Hadley is my favourite author’ KATE ATKINSON

Evelyn had th…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Sellout

A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges…

Buy this book on Amazon

Things I Don't Want to Know

'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over ti…

Buy this book on Amazon

Chronicles, Volume One

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else." So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicle…

Buy this book on Amazon

Others Were Emeralds

Buy this book on Amazon

She's Always Hungry

From Eliza Clark, the author of the brilliant novels Boy Parts and Penance and one of Granta’s Best Young British Novelists, comes a fierce, visionary and darkly comic story collection.

A woman welcome…

Buy this book on Amazon

Arlington Park

Buy this book on Amazon

The Summer Book

An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away a summer together on a tiny island in the gulf of Finland. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each other's fears, whims and yearnings…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Persians

Buy this book on Amazon

Getting Lost

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

The diary of one of France’s most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat.

G…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Potted Gardener (Agatha Raisin, #3)

Never say die. That's the philosophy Agatha Raisin clings to when she comes home to cozy Carsely and finds a new woman ensconced in the affections of her attractive bachelor neighbor, James Lacey.

The…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies

A feast of observations about everything from the particular beauty of lemons on a table, to the allure of Colette, to the streets of Paris, by the inimitable Deborah Levy.

Deborah Levy’s vital litera…

Buy this book on Amazon

Swing Time

Buy this book on Amazon

The Hours

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel that became a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare.

In The Hours, Michael…

Buy this book on Amazon

In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life

I learned that before entering the kitchen, I must get the measure of its hold over me.’

Food can embody our personal history as well as wider cultural histories. But what are the stories we tell ourse…

Buy this book on Amazon

Didion and Babitz

Joan Didion is revealed at last in this outrageously provocative and profoundly moving new work on the mutual attractions—and mutual antipathies—of Didion and Didion’s fellow literary titan, Eve Babi…

Buy this book on Amazon

Kitchen

Banana Yoshimoto's novels have made her a sensation in Japan and all over the world, and Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, is an enchantingly original and…

Buy this book on Amazon

The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis

Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called “an American virtuoso of the short story form” (Salon) and “one of the quiet giants . . . of American fiction” (Los…

Buy this book on Amazon

What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as partners on the road to peace instead of genocide.

When the state of Israel was formed in 1948, it preci…

Buy this book on Amazon

An Alphabet for Gourmets

Similar books (20)