Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books Involving Food (That are Not Cookbooks). Yummmmm.
Here are ten (mostly) recent reads that feature food… and which left me hungry!
1. Songs for the Broken-Hearted by Ayelet Tsabari: So many wonderful descriptions of Yemenite Jewish food! (review)
2. The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais: About restaurants and family, and filled with mouth-watering dishes. (review)
3. Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev: Love on a cooking reality show! (review)
4. The Cafe by the Sea by Jenny Colgan: You could really include most Jenny Colgan books on this list! So many of her books center around bakeries or sweetshops, and even include recipes! (review)
5. Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki: I just finished this book over the weekend, and it left me with huge cravings for donuts. Especially cake donuts… (review)
6. Donut Fall in Love by Jackie Lau: Speaking of donuts… (review)
7. The Vintage Village Bake Off by Judy Leigh: Among other delights, this book includes a scone-baking competition. Delish… (review)
8. A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey: A YA book with a main character whose cooking is central to her journey. (review)
9. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han: Throughout this YA trilogy, the main character bakes and bakes and bakes.
10. A Twist of Fate by Kelley Armstong: In this timeslip romance, the main character supports herself and her sisters by opening a bakery, and thanks to her time-traveling ways, introduces chocolate chip cookies to her Victorian-era family. (review)
What books have you read recently that feature amazing food? If you wrote a TTT post this week, please share your link!
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I’d love to sit in a little cafe by the sea. 🙂
Me too! Sounds peaceful and lovely, just what I need… especially with a fresh croissant and a good coffee.
Donut fall in love is such a great title!!!!
The donuts in the book all sounded amazing!
I’m curious about A Twist of Fate.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
It’s the 2nd in a series, and they’re all wonderful!
A fun topic this week! 😋
Very fun… but makes me want to rush right out to a bakery and indulge!
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I love the Jenny Colgan books!
Her books are all so good! I haven’t started her newest yet, but I hope to get to it in the next few weeks.
We have 1 in common 🙂
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2024/09/03/top-ten-tuesday-books-involving-food/
There are always so many great options when it comes to books and food!
I noticed a lot of these center around bakeries, just saying😉
Aha, you’ve discovered my weakness!!
I love books involving food!! oh my goodness the donut books are making me hungry!! And I love all the baking lara jean does… though it does make me want to have snacks on hand while reading!
Oh, same here, every time I read one of these books (like the Lara Jean series) where a character bakes, I immediately want samples of everything!!