Books Recommended by Anthony Bourdain
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My Last Supper
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
Between Meals
A. Liebling
Source: "[The author's] memoir of meals in Paris before and after the war, and it’s fantastic." - Anthony Bourdain
Eating 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
The Friends of Eddie Coyle
George Higgins
Source: "The best, most realistic crime novel ever. Best dialogue in a crime novel ever." - Anthony Bourdain
The Quiet American
Source: "I re-read it frequently. Particularly when visiting Vietnam." - Anthony Bourdain
Ripley's Game
Ripley, Book 3
Patricia Highsmith
Source: "Elegant, deliciously immoral entry in series of sociopath as hero." - Anthony Bourdain
Fear 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
Naked Lunch
The Restored Text
William S. Burroughs
Source: "Filthy, dangerous, depraved groundbreaking. And funny as Hell." - Anthony Bourdain
The Devil All the Time
Donald Ray Pollock
Source: "[The author] was a revelation when I first read [this book]." - Anthony Bourdain
Ways of Escape
Graham Greene
Source: "A book I’ve read many times but keep coming back to." - Anthony Bourdain
Something to food about
Exploring Creativity with Innovative Chefs
Questlove
Source: "[The author] gets to the heart of the matter." - Anthony Bourdain
Adios, 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?"
You're Better Than Me
A Memoir
Bonnie McFarlane
Source: "Rejuvenating, excoriating genius." - Anthony Bourdain
The White Album
Essays
Joan Didion
Source: "I wish I could write like [this author]." - Anthony Bourdain
Rice, Noodle, Fish
Deep Travels Through Japan's Food Culture
Matt Goulding
Source: "The world needs [this book]." - Anthony Bourdain
The Rogue's March
John Riley and the St. Patrick's Battalion, 1846-48 (The Warriors)
Peter F. Stevens
Source: "I particularly like [this book]." - Anthony Bourdain
Total Chaos
The Story of the Stooges
Jeff Gold
Source: "[This book] is everything." - Anthony Bourdain
How to Live
Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell
Source: "A book I love." - Anthony Bourdain
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