Cookbooks

Non-fiction books that contain a collection of recipes, techniques, and tricks of the trade or else focus on the exploration of food, cooking, and culture of food. Many cookbooks are divided into sections such as baking, dinner, and breakfast. A specialty cookbook may focus only on a certain country's cuisine, such as Italian or Cajun. There are some cookbooks that are written to highlight one ingredient (i.e. honey), and some cookbooks focused on only one branch of cooking (such as bread.) Even further, some cookbooks focus on types of cooking (microwave, barbecue, baking.) ...more

Of Course It’s Good!: Aggressively Delicious Meals ANYONE Can Make and EVERYONE Will Love
The Pioneer Woman Cooks―The Essential Recipes: 120 Greatest Hits, New Twists, and Perfected Classics
Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook
Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations
All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now
Baking Yesteryear: The Best Recipes from the 1900s to the 1980s
Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
The Funeral Ladies of Ellerie County
Food Person
The Galveston Diet: The Doctor-Developed, Patient-Proven Plan to Burn Fat and Tame Your Hormonal Symptoms
Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots (Includes Behind-the-Scenes Stories, Photos, Recipes, and Lifestyle Tips) – The Perfect Gift for Reba Fans
Keep It Simple, Y'all: Easy Dinners from Your Barefoot Neighbor: A Cookbook
What's for Dessert: Simple Recipes for Dessert People
Baking Across America: A Vintage Recipe Road Trip
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business): Finding Our Way to Joy, Love, and Freedom (A Feeding the Soul Book)
  • Commi Kitchen by Cole Crocker
    Commi Kitchen
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    Release date: Oct 17, 2025
    Commi Kitchen is not a cookbook, nor a food-porn fairy tale, and certainly not another celebrity-chef success story. This book rips the glamour off th ...more
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    Availability: 100 copies available, 751 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 01 - Jan 30, 2026

    Countries available: U.S.

  • Cuisines of Odesa by Maria Kalenska
    Cuisines of Odesa: A Ukrainian Cookbook

    Release date: Feb 24, 2026
    Embark on a vibrant culinary journey through one of Ukraine's most culturally rich cities and celebrate its rich and varied cuisine in Cuisines of Ode ...more
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    Availability: 15 copies available, 5464 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026

    Countries available: U.S. and Canada

  • How to Share an Egg by Bonny Reichert
    How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty
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    Release date: Jan 06, 2026
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    Availability: 50 copies available, 3970 people requesting

    Giveaway dates: Jan 01 - Jan 31, 2026

    Countries available: U.S.

  • Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
    Joy of Cooking
    Mastering the Art of French Cooking
    Jerusalem: A Cookbook
    How to Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
    Plenty
    The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook: Recipes and Wisdom from an Obsessive Home Cook
    The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science
    The Moosewood Cookbook: Recipes from Moosewood Restaurant, Ithaca, New York
    Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
    Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book
    The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Over 100 Vegan Recipes to Glow from the Inside Out
    Thug Kitchen: Eat Like You Give a F*ck
    Cravings: Recipes for All the Food You Want to Eat
    Keto Diet for Beginners: 30-Day Keto Meal Plan for Rapid Weight Loss.
    Alien Species Intervention by J.K. AccinniThe One by J.K. AccinniEvil Among Us by J.K. AccinniEcho by J.K. AccinniHive by J.K. Accinni
    Books Read in 2012
    62 books — 65 voters
    The Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerThe New Basics Cookbook by Julee RossoThe Fannie Farmer Cookbook by Marion CunninghamThe Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie KatzenBarefoot Contessa Family Style by Ina Garten
    Best Cookbooks Ever
    544 books — 215 voters

    The Forager Chefs Club by Rita Mace WalstonThe Joy of Cooking by Irma S. RombauerMastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia ChildThe New Basics Cookbook by Julee RossoThe Compleat I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken
    Cook Books
    574 books — 133 voters

    I Can Cook "Pastry" by Marika GermanisQuick Meal-in-a Mug Recipes That Are Too Delicious by Valeria RayPretend Soup and Other Real Recipes by Mollie KatzenSalad People and More Real Recipes by Mollie KatzenHealthy Kids Cookbook by Stephanie Sharp
    Easy Cookbooks for Kids
    200 books — 49 voters
    Silent Spring by Rachel CarsonCradle to Cradle by William McDonoughThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThe Urban Homestead by Kelly CoyneThe Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
    Being "Green"
    388 books — 237 voters


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    Cooking involves a deadline and hungry people and ingredients that expire in a week. It's stressful. Cooking happens on the stove and on the clock. Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking at Zomick's Bakery is slow and leisurely. ...more
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