Books Recommended by Anthony Bourdain
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My Last Supper
50 Great Chefs and Their Final Meals / Portraits, Interviews, and Recipes
Melanie Dunea
Source: "[The author] managed to convince a goodly number of the world's best, and best-known, chefs to let it all go." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderBetween Meals
A. Liebling
Source: "[The author's] memoir of meals in Paris before and after the war, and it’s fantastic." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderEating Viet Nam
Dispatches from a Blue Plastic Table
Graham Holliday
Source: "This is—and will remain—an essential account for anyone considering travel to Vietnam." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderThe Friends of Eddie Coyle
George Higgins
Source: "The best, most realistic crime novel ever. Best dialogue in a crime novel ever." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderThe Quiet American
Graham Greene
Source: "I re-read it frequently. Particularly when visiting Vietnam." - Anthony Bourdain
2 recommendersEssays
George Orwell
Source: "The font of all wisdom. [The author] is right about nearly everything." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderRipley's Game
Ripley, Book 3
Patricia Highsmith
Source: "Elegant, deliciously immoral entry in series of sociopath as hero." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderFear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Fear and Loathing, Book 1
Hunter S. Thompson
Source: "The book that probably influenced me more than any other." - Anthony Bourdain
3 recommendersNaked Lunch
The Restored Text
William S. Burroughs
Source: "Filthy, dangerous, depraved groundbreaking. And funny as Hell." - Anthony Bourdain
2 recommendersThe Devil All the Time
Donald Ray Pollock
Source: "[The author] was a revelation when I first read [this book]." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderThrown
Kerry Howley
Source: "An absolutely wonderful exploration of the poorly understood sport of MMA." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderWays of Escape
Graham Greene
Source: "A book I’ve read many times but keep coming back to." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderSomething to food about
Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs
Questlove
Source: "[The author] gets to the heart of the matter." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommenderAdios, Motherfucker
A Gentleman's Progress Through Rock and Roll
Michael Ruffino
Source: Anthony Bourdain's answer to "what’s the last book that made you laugh?"
1 recommender- 1 recommender
You're Better Than Me
A Memoir
Bonnie McFarlane
Source: "Rejuvenating, excoriating genius." - Anthony Bourdain
1 recommender- 1 recommender
The White Album
Essays
Joan Didion
Source: "I wish I could write like [this author]." - Anthony Bourdain
3 recommenders- 2 recommenders
- 1 recommender
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