Books about Food (Fiction and Nonfiction)

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Updated May 18, 2026
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What to eat now : the indispensable guide to good food, how to find it, and why it matters
Nestle, Marion
Paper Book
NOMINATED FOR A JAMES BEARD AWARD A thoroughly revised classic, What to Eat Now is a field guide to food shopping in America, and a treatise on how to eat well and deliciously. What to Eat Now is a clear-eyed, no-nonsense guide to the most important...
We are eating the earth : the race to fix our food system and save our climate
Grunwald, Michael
Ebook
Care and feeding : a memoir
Woolever, Laurie
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A candid, funny, and occasionally devastating culinary memoir of a woman making her way through the food world, navigating addiction, a cultural reckoning, and an unexpected tragedy In this moving, hilarious, and insightful...
The Reservation
Kauffman, Rebecca
Paper Book
On the morning of the most important booking in the long history of the celebrated restaurant, Aunt Orsa's erupts into chaos with the discovery that twenty-two rib eye steaks have been stolen. Hers is the most august of fine-dining establishments in this Midwestern college town, and tonight Orsa is...
A fashionably French murder
Cambridge, Colleen
Paper Book
American expat Tabitha Knight has found a new life in postwar Paris, along with a delightful friend in aspiring chef Julia Child. Yet there are perils in peacetime too, as a killer infiltrates one of the city's most famous fashion houses. If there's one art the French have...
Next of kin : a memoir
Hamilton, Gabrielle
Paper Book
In her long-awaited new memoir, the author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award winner Blood, Bones & Butter tells the "raw and darkly humorous" (People) story of her family's unexpected dissolution. "Hamilton's voice is as singular and...
In your dreams
Adams, Sarah
Paper Book
💖 The new rom-com by Sarah Adams, the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensations, The Cheat Sheet and The Rule Book. 💖 🥕 Chef x Farmer 🥕 Brother's Best Friend 🥕 He Fell First ...
The menu of happiness
Kashiwai, Hisashi
Paper Book
The Menu of Happiness, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the third book in the bestselling, delightful Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold.Welcome to the Kamogawa Diner, where every meal is a mystery ready to be solved. This...
Cheesecake : a novel
Kurlansky, Mark
Paper Book
From New York Times-bestselling author Mark Kurlansky, a delectable novel following an ancient recipe for cheesecake as it spreads through the Upper West side--from the restaurant of a conniving landlord to the kitchens of the old-school New Yorkers he's trying to force out--and to the...
Aftertaste
Lavelle, Daria
Paper Book
'Part ghost story, part gastro romance ... and lashings of bittersweet humour' Mail on Sunday 'A fun romp through New York's restaurant scene and the world of the undead' The Sunday Times '[The] answer to last year's cult hit Butter'...
Vianne
Harris, Joanne
Paper Book
MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR JOANNE HARRIS SENSATIONALLY RETURNS TO THE WORLD OF CHOCOLAT! 'Joanne Harris's long-awaited prequel to her immensely successful novel Chocolat is a feast of the senses full of intrigue, magic, love and, of course,...

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