Dirt
By
Bill Buford
Bill Buford
2020 • 410 pages

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53 books

League of Literary Legends

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Shawn
The Intuitionist
My Struggle: Book One
The Vegetarian
Dangerous Laughter
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Association of Small Bombs
Exit West

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318 books

Memoir Autobiography

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Christina
Lab Girl
It's What I Do : A Photographer's Life of Love and War
Sex Object
Skyfaring
You'll Grow Out of It
Seeking Rapture

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822 books

Nonfiction

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Christina
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
An American Requiem
A Fair Country
The Happiness Project
Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
In Search of Grace

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31 books

Food Drink

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Christina
A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes from My Kitchen Table
The Sweet Life in Paris: Delicious Adventures in the World's Most Glorious - and Perplexing - City
My Life in France
Julie & Julia
As Always, Julia
Day of Honey
The Apprentice

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270 books

2020

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Weather
Topics of Conversation
Followers
Things in Jars
Dear Edward
Uncanny Valley
The Everlasting

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216 books

Non Fiction

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From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin's Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin's Secret War on the West
Plagued by Fire
Life Undercover
Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep
Hollywood's Eve
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart

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95 books

Memoir

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In the Dream House
The Broken Circle
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
I Miss You When I Blink Essays
Hollywood's Eve
The Wrong End of the Table

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19 books

Food

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Everything Is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes
Eat a Peach
Blood, Bones, and Butter
Save Me the Plums: My Gourmet Memoir
Kitchen Confidential : Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

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149 books

Cooking

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The School of Essential Ingredients
The Waitress Was New
Blue jelly
Not becoming my mother
Spain
Bring Me Some Apples and I'll Make You a Pie: A Story About Edna Lewis

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50 books

The Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020

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Hardcover
Active measures the secret history of disinformation and political warfare
The Art of Her Deal
Becoming Duchess Goldblatt
Begin Again
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Breath
The Book of Eels

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69 books

Italy

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Flirting in Italian
Four Seasons in Rome
Death in Venice
A Thousand Days in Venice
Lost Hearts in Italy
Valley in Italy, A
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy

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1,039 books

Nonfiction

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Barefoot Books World Atlas Sticker Book
Carlos Santana: Sound of the Heart, Song of the World
Sinister Savannah
Deadly Spider Bite!
The Whaleship Essex: The True Story of Moby Dick
Skulls!
Half-Earth

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310 books

France

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Early Novels
A Moveable Feast
Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong
Serve It Forth
Weekend in Paris
Joie de Vivre
Tender is the Night

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196 books

Family

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Little Tiger
Red at the Bone
Zombies Don't Eat Veggies!
Once Upon a Goat
American Royals
Lawrence in the Fall
Aftermath

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149 books

Moving And Starting Over

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Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse
Honeymoon in Purdah
Between Panic and Desire
Await Your Reply
Strength in What Remains: A Journey of Remembrance and Forgiveness
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
The East-West House: Noguchi's Childhood in Japan

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183 books

History

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A Year in Paris: Season by Season in the City of Light
The Train to Crystal City
Bubonic Panic: When Plague Invaded America
Diana's White House Garden
The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
The Wright Brothers
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

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78 books

Learning

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Disrupting Class
From Where You Dream
Life-Size Zoo: From Tiny Rodents to Gigantic Elephants, An Actual-Size Animal Encyclopedia
Play
Work Hard. Be Nice.

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229 books

Foodie

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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover's Caribbean Adventure