Books like Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table
12 books with a reading profile close to Comfort Me with Apples: More Adventures at the Table by Ruth Reichl. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
Beautiful Country
memoir, narrative
Qian Julie Wang was seven when she and her parents left China for New York in 1994, where her mother and father, a former professor and a professional, became undocumented workers.
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2
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
memoir, narrative
Fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist born with physical vulnerabilities, lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation where poverty and alcoholism are pervasive.
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3
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
memoir, narrative
In 1960, John Steinbeck drove a custom-built camper truck named Rocinante across nearly forty states to reconnect with the country he felt he no longer understood.
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4
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
memoir, narrative
The collection compiles fiction and non-fiction written by Marina Keegan before her death just days after graduating from Yale.
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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table
by Ruth Reichl
memoir, narrative
Ruth Reichl’s memoir tracks her development from a child navigating her mother’s dangerous kitchen to a professional restaurant critic.
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6
I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
by Nora Ephron
memoir, narrative
Nora Ephron examines the physical humiliations and domestic frustrations of aging, focusing on the specific maintenance required to camouflage a sagging neck.
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Shantaram
memoir, narrative
Lin Ford, a convicted bank robber, escapes an Australian prison and flees to Mumbai, India, where he reinvents himself within the city’s complex social tiers.
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Persepolis, Volume 1
memoir, narrative
Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel chronicles her childhood in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.
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9
Solutions and Other Problems
by Allie Brosh
memoir, narrative
Allie Brosh uses crude digital illustrations and humorous vignettes to document her life after a long public absence.
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10
The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
narrative, literary
Set on the Korean island of Jeju, this novel follows the lifelong friendship between Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls who join a collective of haenyeo female divers.
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I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
memoir, narrative
This memoir documents seventeen instances where Maggie O’Farrell narrowly escaped death.
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The Boston Girl
narrative, literary
The novel follows Addie Baum, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, as she recounts her life story to her granddaughter in 1985.
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