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Books like Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

12 books with a reading profile close to Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany by Bill Buford. Practical, outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell

by Marilyn Manson

Also practical · entertainment, memoir

Brian Warner chronicles his evolution from a repressed student at a Christian private school in Ohio to the provocateur known as Marilyn Manson.
2

A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

by Anthony Bourdain

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

Following the success of his restaurant industry memoir, Anthony Bourdain embarks on a worldwide quest to find the perfect meal.
3

Marching Powder: A True Story of Friendship, Cocaine, and South America's Strangest Jail

by Rusty Young

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

Rusty Young, an Australian backpacker, meets Thomas McFadden, a British drug trafficker who is serving a sentence in San Pedro prison in La Paz, Bolivia.
4

A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail

by Bill Bryson

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

After living in Europe for twenty years, Bill Bryson returns to the United States and decides to hike the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail.
5

A Place Called Freedom

by Ken Follett

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

In 1767, Mack McAsh is a young coal miner in a Scottish mining community where workers are legally bound to their employer for life.
6

Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

by Anthony Bourdain

entertainment, memoir

Ten years after his debut, Anthony Bourdain evaluates the professional kitchen's transformation from a hidden subculture into a televised spectacle.
7

Gray Mountain

by John Grisham

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Following the 2008 financial collapse, Samantha Kofer loses her high-stakes career at a major Manhattan law firm.
8

Rising Sun

by Michael Crichton

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

During a gala opening for the Nakamoto Corporation’s new Los Angeles headquarters, a beautiful woman is found dead on a boardroom table.
9

Island of the Sequined Love Nun

by Christopher Moore

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Tucker Case, a disgraced pilot who crashed a pink jet into the Vatican, finds himself flying for a questionable missionary organization in Micronesia.
10

Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

by Max Brooks

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

Kate Holland and her husband move to Greenloop, a high-tech eco-community in the shadow of Mount Rainier.
11

Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains

by Jon Krakauer

Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative

In this collection of non-fiction reports, Jon Krakauer chronicles the high-risk pursuits of ice climbers and mountaineers.
12

A Time to Kill

by John Grisham

Also practical and outward-looking · entertainment, narrative

In Clanton, Mississippi, ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is brutally assaulted and left for dead by two white men.

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