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12 books with a reading profile close to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat. Outward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Christopher McDougall begins with a simple question about his own chronic foot pain and ends up in Mexico’s Copper Canyons searching for the Tarahumara Indians.
2

Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ

by Giulia Enders

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Giulia Enders examines the digestive system as a sophisticated sensory organ that influences neurological and immune health.
3

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

by Barbara Kingsolver

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · practical, narrative

Barbara Kingsolver moves her family from Arizona to a farm in southern Appalachia to live as locavores for one year.
4

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · practical, narrative

Jessica Livingston presents a collection of raw, first-person interviews with the creators of influential technology firms like Apple, Microsoft, and Flickr.
5

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

by Pamela Druckerman

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

When American journalist Pamela Druckerman moves to Paris, she notices that French children sit quietly in restaurants, sleep through the night at two months old, and eat braised leeks without complaint.
6

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

by Michael Wolff

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Michael Wolff provides an account of the first nine months of the Trump administration, drawing on extensive access to the West Wing.
7

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

by James Nestor

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · practical, narrative

James Nestor investigates the biological decline of human breathing and its impact on modern health.
8

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Chip Heath and Dan Heath argue that memorable ideas share six specific traits, organized under the SUCCES acronym: simplicity, unexpectedness, concreteness, credibility, emotions, and stories.
9

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

by Atul Gawande

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Atul Gawande examines the specific behaviors that allow medical professionals to bridge the gap between mediocre and superior performance.
10

The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

by Kirk Wallace Johnson

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

In 2009, Edwin Rist, a twenty-year-old flute student and competitive fly-tier, broke into the British Museum of Natural History at Tring.
11

Blood, Sweat, and Pixels

by Jason Schreier

Also outward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Jason Schreier investigates the volatile manufacturing process of modern video games, chronicling the chaotic development cycles of titles like Pillars of Eternity, Stardew Valley, and Dragon Age: Inquisition.
12

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

by Joshua Foer

Also clear-cut · practical, narrative

Joshua Foer chronicles his evolution from a skeptical journalist covering the United States Memory Championship to the unlikely winner of the same competition one year later.

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