Books like Take the Cannoli
12 books with a reading profile close to Take the Cannoli by Sarah Vowell. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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Dear Fahrenheit 451
by Annie Spence
memoir, accessible
Libarian Annie Spence writes specific, direct letters to the physical books she has encountered throughout her career and personal life.
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Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002
memoir, accessible
Theft by Finding gathers twenty-five years of David Sedaris's private diary entries, beginning with his early adulthood in North Carolina and ending as an established writer in London.
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
memoir, accessible
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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Shantaram
memoir, accessible
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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84, Charing Cross Road
by Helene Hanff
memoir, accessible
In 1949, Helene Hanff, a struggling screenwriter in New York City, contacted Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop in London, to track down rare British literature.
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A Man Without a Country
accessible, literary
This collection of short essays serves as a final public address on the state of American life and the health of the planet.
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YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY
by Gavin Newsom
memoir, accessible
Gavin Newsom traces the intersection of his family’s multi-generational history in San Francisco and his own rise through California’s political hierarchy.
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An Object of Beauty
by Steve Martin
accessible, literary
In the fast-paced world of the Manhattan art scene between the late 1990s and the 2008 financial crisis, ambitious Lacey Yeager climbs from an entry-level position at Sotheby’s to ownership of her own gallery.
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Permanent Record
memoir, accessible
Edward Snowden details his transition from a committed CIA and NSA technologist to a whistleblower who exposed the United States government’s system of mass digital surveillance.
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JUNGLEKEEPER
by Paul Rosolie
memoir, accessible
Paul Rosolie recounts his experiences living within the deep Amazon basin, focusing on the immediate realities of rainforest conservation.
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Bad Feminist
by Roxane Gay
memoir, accessible
Roxane Gay uses this collection of essays to analyze the contradictions between feminist ideology and contemporary pop culture.
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