On Our Shelves

Stefin and Andrea are both voracious readers. Whether it’s a cookbook, food memoir, food and travel fiction, or just a regular book with some wonderful food writing, they’re talking about it on the show or in the Preheated Book Club.

Cookbooks

The Art of the Pie, Kate McDermott

King Arthur Flour Cookie Companion

In the Kitchen with Miss Piggy

French Acadian Cookbook (1955 edition)

Classic Home Desserts, Richard Sax

The Food Lab: Better Cooking Through Science, J. Kenji Lopez Alt

How to Bake Everything, Mark Bittman

River Road Community Cookbook

Silver Palate, Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso

USA, Sheila Lukins

How to Cook Everything, Mark Bittman

Matters of Taste, Nathalie Dupree

The Italian Baker, Melissa Forti

Sweet, Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh

Tea Party, Tracy Stern

Mary Berry Cooks

The Better Homes & Gardens Holiday Cookbook (1959)

Smitten Kitchen Everyday, Deb Perlman

Paul Hollywood’s Pies & Puds

The Zodiac Cooks, Penny Thornton

Thanksgiving: How to Cook it Well, Sam Sifton

Nigella Christmas

At My Table, Nigella Lawson

Saved by Cake, Marian Keyes

Modern Baking: Cakes, Cookies & Everything in Between, Donna Hay

Rose’s Baking Basics, Rose Levy Berenbaum

All About Cake, Christina Tosi

Sister Pie: The Recipes and Stories of a Big-Hearted Bakery in Detroit, Lisa Ludwinski

Simple, Yotam Ottolenghi

Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook, Dorie Greenspan

Comfort in an Instant, Melissa Clark

Sous Vide for Everyone, America’s Test Kitchen

Whiskey in a Teacup, Reese Witherspoon

Five Seasons of Cranberry, Better Homes & Gardens

Christmas Chronicles, Nigel Slater

Six Seasons, Joshua McFadden

The Flying Brownie: 100 Terrific Food Gifts for Friends and Loved Ones Far Away, Shirley Fan

The Cardamom Trail, Chetna Makan

Baking with Less Sugar, Joanne Chang

Cooking with Scraps, Lindsey Jean-Hard

The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747), Hannah Glass

Indian-ish: Recipes and Antics from a Modern American Family, Priya Krishna

Simple Cake: All You Need to Keep Your Friends and Family in Cake, Odette Williams

Hummingbird Bakery Cookbook, Tarek Malouf

Gü Chocolate Cookbook

Scraps, Peels and Stems, Jill Lightner

Everyday Food
(various titles in series), Martha Stewart

Bake Sale Cookbook, Sandra Lee

Good Housekeeping’s The Great Bake Sale Cookbook

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat, Samrin Nosrat

Nigella Feast

When Pies Fly: Handmade Pastries from Strudels to Stromboli, Empanadas to Knishes, Cathy Barrow

Baking with Kim-Joy: Cute and Creative Bakes to Make You Smile, Kim-Joy

Bigger Bolder Baking, Gemma Stafford

Midwest Made, Shauna Sever

Weeknight Baking: Recipes to Fit Your Schedule, Michelle Lopez

Martha Stewart’s Cookie Perfection: 100+ Recipes to Take Your Sweet Treats to the Next Level:A Baking Book

Bread, Toast, Crumbs, Alexandra Stafford

Cookbooks For Younger Bakers

Company’s Coming: Cooking for Kids, Jean Paré

Kids Cookbook: A Very Slightly Messy Manual, Klutz Press (1987)

American Girl Baking: Recipes for Cookies, Cupcakes, and More

Better Homes & Gardens Junior Cookbook 

Basics to Brilliance, Donna Hay

In the French Kitchen with Kids, Mardi Michels 

Memoirs

Spiced: A Pastry Chef’s True Story of Trial by Fire, Dalia Jurgensen

Garlic and Sapphires, Ruth Reichl

Stuffed, Patricia Volk

Born Round, Frank Bruni*

My Life in France, Julia Child

Growing Up on the Chocolate Diet, Lora Brody

The Gastronomical Me, M.F.K. Fisher

Paris My Sweet: A Year in the City of Light (and Dark) Chocolate, Amy Thomas

A Homemade Life: Stories and Recipes From My Kitchen Table, Molly Wizenberg

Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage, Molly Wizenberg

Mastering the Art of French Eating, Ann Mah

At the Kitchen Table, Greg Atkinson

Save Me the Plums,
Ruth Reichl

Risotto with Nettles, Anna del Conte*

Home Cooking, Laurie Colwin*

Fiction

The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, Louise Miller

Kitchens of the Great Midwest,* J. Ryan Stradal

The Great Santini, Pat Conroy

Little House in the Big Woods, Laura Ingalls Wilder

We Are All Made of Molecules, Susin Neilsen

A Spool of Blue Thread, Anne Tyler

Faithful, Alice Hoffman

44 Scotland Street, Alexander McCall Smith

The Woman in Cabin 10, Ruth Ware

Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld

Plumberry School of Comfort Food, Cathy Bramley 

Stephanie Plum series (especially Two for the Dough), Janet Evanovich

Yesterday, Felicia Yap

The Lying Game, Ruth Ware

The Secret History, Donna Tartt

The Chocolate Lover’s Christmas, Carole Matthews

Winter Street (series), Erin Hildebrand

Sourdough, Robin Sloane*

Bread Alone, Judith Robin Hendricks

Standard Deviation, Katherine Heiny

Greatest Hits, Laura Barnett

Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng

That Kind of Mother, Rumaan Alam

The Cake Therapist, Judith Fertig

The Cazalet Chronicles (series), Elizabeth Jane Howard

What Would Mary Berry Do?, Claire Sandy

Sweetbitter, Stephanie Danler

The Lost Vintage, Ann Mah

Good Grief, Lolly Winston

The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling

David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

The One in a Million Boy, Monica Wood

Tales of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter

The Mitford Series, Jan Karon

The Maisie Dobbs Series, Jacqueline Winspear

The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien

The Cozy Mystery Series, Joanne Fluke

Delicious, Ruth Reichl

Other
The Four Tendencies, Gretchen Rubin

Bean to Bar Chocolate, Megan Giller


Magazines

Better Homes & Gardens

Southern Living

Sift

Good Housekeeping (US & UK)

Redbook

Real Simple

Chatelaine (Canada)

Everyday Food

*Preheated Book Club Pick