Read it and Eat!

Culinary Fiction takes you from the kitchen into cafes and restaurants and back to the dining table. The plot always returns to food. These yummy books will tempt your senses and leave you hungry for more!

Culinary Fiction

  • Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop
    Café
     by Fannie Flagg
  • The Last Chinese Chef By Lisa Mones
  • Comfort Food By Kate Jacobs
  • How to Cook a Tart by Nina Killham
  • Eat Cake by Jeanne Ray
  • Julia’s Chocolates by Cathy Lamb
  • Five Quarters of the Orange
    by Joanne Harris
  • Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen
  • Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
  • Scarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy
  • The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg
  • Starting from Scratch by Susan Ralph

Culinary Mystery Series

  • Goldy Schulz Culinary Mysteries
    by Diane Davidson Mott
    Start with: Dying for Chocolate
  • Hannah Swenson Mysteries
    By Joanne Fluke
    Start with: The Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
  • Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries
    By Tamar Myers
    Start with: Too Many Crooks Spoil the Broth
  • Agatha Raisin Mysteries
    By M.C. Beaton
    Start with: The Quiche of Death

Culinary Memoirs

  • My Life in France
    by Julia Child, Alex Prudhomme

  • Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
    By Frances Mayes

  • Cleaving: A Story of Meat, Marriage, and
    Obsession
     by Julie Powell

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