Cooking bestsellers

Crying in H Mart

A Memoir

By: Michelle Zauner
Narrated by: Michelle Zauner
Length: 7 hours 23 minutes

“A bunch of us at GGP loved this daughter's brutally honest examination of her complicated at times strained relationship with her mother, who is dying of cancer. Bonus fascinating factor: the daughter just happens to be the lead singer of the band Japanese Breakfast! Be prepared to cry, feel hungry or have an urge to call the motherly figures in... Read more

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

A Memoir

By: Ina Garten
Narrated by: Ina Garten
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

“Enjoyable memoir about jumping at opportunities when they're right for you, along with a bit of a love story of Ina's infamous husband Jeffrey. Read more

Raw Dog

The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus
Narrated by: Jamie Loftus
Length: 9 hours 38 minutes

“This book is a freaking wild ride, which I recommend you get on. Yes, there is hot dog information between the unfiltered commentary from the author, who reminds me of a young Anthony Bourdain, while they wander along the road searching for this iconic food. Read more

Taste

My Life Through Food

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 6 hours 50 minutes

“Stanley Tucci tells his life's story through food, complete with recipes. Taste is a book of love, of family and friends, and of how food connects us all. Tucci is an endearing narrator, heartwarming and sincere, filled with gratitude, funny and self-deprecating...I listened to Taste on audio @librofm and arrived at work each day drooling. When... Read more

In the Weeds

Lovelight Farms: Book #2

By: B.K. Borison
Narrated by: Pippa Jayne & Dane Anderson
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

“This was such a vast improvement from Lovelight Farms. Granted I read Lovelight about 1.5 years ago but I remember feeling like it was pretty mid. It was cute for a holiday time read but it didn’t particularly stand out. Determined to read the series within the intended seasons, I missed In the Weeds last Spring and was pleased to be able to... Read more

Kitchen Confidential

Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
Length: 8 hours 19 minutes

“If you want the raw, uncut version of Anthony Bourdain’s cooking life look no further! Kitchen Confidential documents the nitty gritty of the back of house - and how truly at home many cooks feel while sweating and yelling their way through 60+ hour workweeks. Anthony Bourdain is frank with his recount of his rise and fall throughout the ranks... Read more

What I Ate in One Year

(and related thoughts)

By: Stanley Tucci
Narrated by: Stanley Tucci
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes

“This was the most wonderful listen. It soothed my soul and inspired me to appreciate food and cooking more. I loved the recipes interspersed throughout, and Tucci himself reading it added another delightful layer to the narrative. Such a fun listen that I would recommend to anyone, but especially someone who wants something relaxing and... Read more

Wild Chocolate

Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul

By: Rowan Jacobsen
Narrated by: Sam Rushton
Length: 7 hours 39 minutes

“Chocolate is an adventure into the amazons and beyond all for the sake of understanding and eating delicious chocolate. What a delicious ride. I'll never scoff at a $15 chocolate bar again and I'm excited to bring these bean-to-bar chocolates to our culinary bookstore. This book will have you rethinking every Hershey bar you put into your basket. Read more

Food for Thought

Essays and Ruminations

By: Alton Brown
Narrated by: Alton Brown
Length: 6 hours 59 minutes

“When I get nostalgic, I think of Alton Brown’s show Good Eats. Just his whole personality on the show was so charming and eccentric, and it is a fantastic book filled with his insights on food and life, heartwarming all the way through. Read more

Care and Feeding

A Memoir

By: Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever
Length: 12 hours 45 minutes

“An intense, thrilling memoir from the woman who served as an assistant to two very famous men in the food world, one awful, one the most admirable: Mario Batali and Anthony Bourdain. Her stories of being inside the glutinous, debaucherous world of high-profile chefs are like a TV show—but it has downfalls. Batali, who was revealed in the Me Too... Read more

I Regret Almost Everything

By: Keith McNally
Narrated by: Richard E. Grant
Length: 11 hours 3 minutes

“The title is kinda perfect because McNally does a lot of regrettable things, mostly in his personal life. And no atoning. But we’ve heard this before - rich, powerful men not realizing what they had until they lose it all. The writing of the book is well done, and the audio is read by Richard E. Grant who does a wonderful job. Maybe if more men... Read more

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 15 hours 54 minutes

One of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year

Winner of the James Beard Award

Author of #1 New York Times Bestsellers In Defense of Food and Food Rules

What should we have for dinner? Ten years ago, Michael Pollan confronted us with this seemingly simple question and,... Read more about The Omnivore's Dilemma

All Consuming

Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now

By: Ruby Tandoh
Narrated by: Ruby Tandoh
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
Food dominates our every waking minute: Hype restaurants. Allrecipes. The Great British Bake Off. In this dazzling cultural history, bestselling food writer Ruby Tandoh (author of Cook As You Are) traces how—and why—we’ve all become foodies.

“Ruby Tandoh is a genius and All Consuming is everything.” —Bryan... Read more about All Consuming

Ultra-Processed People

Why We Can't Stop Eating Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken
Narrated by: Chris van Tulleken & Dr. Xand van Tulleken
Length: 11 hours 35 minutes

The Omnivore's Dilemma meets Fast Food Nation from a global perspective in this game-changing look at the science, economics, and history of ultra-processed food and the industry's effect on our health and planet.

It’s not you, it’s the food.

How much of our daily caloric intake comes from ingesting substances that, technically speaking, do not... Read more about Ultra-Processed People

Slow Seasons

A Creative Guide to Reconnecting with Nature the Celtic Way

By: Rosie Steer
Narrated by: Rosie Steer
Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Bloomsbury presents Slow Seasons written and read by Rosie Steer.

Woman's Own Book Club 2023

‘A truly beautiful book. Rosie’s writing makes me want to close my laptop, step outside, and appreciate the magic that each season brings’ Jessica Elliot Dennison

In her late-twenties, feeling utterly overwhelmed by the pace of modern city life, Rosie Steer... Read more about Slow Seasons

Cork Dork

A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

By: Bianca Bosker
Narrated by: Bianca Bosker
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK

“Thrilling . . . [told] with gonzo élan . . . When the sommelier and blogger Madeline Puckette writes that this book is the Kitchen Confidential of the wine world, she’s not wrong, though Bill Buford’s Heat is probably a shade closer.” —Jennifer Senior,... Read more about Cork Dork

Typhoid Mary

An Urban Historical

By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Nathan Osgood
Length: 4 hours

Bloomsbury presents Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain, read by Nathan Osgood.

From the host of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential comes the true, thrilling story of Mary Mallon, otherwise known as the infamous Typhoid Mary.

This is a tale of pursuit through the kitchens of New York City at the turn of... Read more about Typhoid Mary

Save Me the Plums

My Gourmet Memoir

By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Ruth Reichl
Length: 7 hours 55 minutes

“You may be cleaning your house or walking your dog, but Ruth Reichl will take you away --to New York, Paris, and the world's best restaurants in her own narration of her years with Gourmet Magazine. Ruth is a consummate storyteller, and if you've read her earlier memoirs you MUST experience this latest; she adds to her mother's story (remember... Read more

In the Weeds

Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain

By: Tom Vitale
Narrated by: Tom Vitale
Length: 8 hours 47 minutes

Anthony Bourdain's long time director and producer takes readers behind the scenes to reveal the insanity of filming television in some of the most volatile places in the world and what it was like to work with a legend.
 
In the nearly two years since Anthony Bourdain's death, no one else has come close to filling the void he left. His... Read more about In the Weeds

Provence, 1970

M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard, and the Reinvention of American Taste

By: Luke Barr
Narrated by: John Rubinstein
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

Provence, 1970 is about a singular historic moment. In the winter of that year, more or less coincidentally, the iconic culinary figures James Beard, M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, Richard Olney, Simone Beck, and Judith Jones found themselves together in the South of France. They cooked and ate, talked and argued, about the future of food in... Read more about Provence, 1970

Cooked

A Natural History of Transformation

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 13 hours 25 minutes

Michael Pollan, the bestselling author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, Food Rules, and How to Change Your Mind, explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen in Cooked. 

Cooked is now a Netflix docuseries based on the book that focuses on the four kinds of "transformations" that occur in... Read more about Cooked

32 Yolks

From My Mother's Table to Working the Line

By: Eric Ripert & Veronica Chambers
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
Length: 7 hours 26 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Hailed by Anthony Bourdain as “heartbreaking, horrifying, poignant, and inspiring,” 32 Yolks is the brave and affecting coming-of-age story about the making of a French chef, from the culinary icon behind the renowned New York City restaurant Le Bernardin.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR

In an industry... Read more about 32 Yolks

Garlic and Sapphires

The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise

By: Ruth Reichl
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
Length: 10 hours 57 minutes

GARLIC AND SAPPHIRES is Ruth Reichl's riotous account of the many disguises she employs to dine anonymously. There is her stint as Molly Hollis, a frumpy blond with manicured nails and an off-beige Armani suit that Ruth takes on when reviewing Le Cirque. The result: her famous double review of the restaurant: first she ate there as Molly; and... Read more about Garlic and Sapphires

What is Queer Food?

How We Served a Revolution

By: John Birdsall
Narrated by: Adi Cabral
Length: 8 hours 44 minutes

A celebrated food writer's expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture.



Food in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted, and upended by queer creatives. Beloved food writer John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channeling the twin forces of criticism and cultural... Read more about What is Queer Food?

The Drunken Botanist

The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks

By: Amy Stewart
Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
Length: 10 hours 17 minutes

Every great drink starts with a plant. Sake began with a grain of rice. Scotch emerged from barley. Gin was born from a conifer shrub when medieval physicians boiled juniper berries with wine to treat stomach pain. The Drunken Botanist uncovers the surprising botanical history and fascinating science and chemistry of over 150 plants, flowers,... Read more about The Drunken Botanist

Ferment

The Life-Changing Power of Microbes

By: Tim Spector
Narrated by: Leighton Pugh & Tim Spector
Length: 10 hours 15 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

**AS SEEN ON ITV THIS MORNING**

From the world-leading gut scientist and no. 1 bestselling author of Food for Life, comes an introduction to the life-changing benefits of fermentation

Of all the ways to prepare food, fermenting is surely the most mysterious, miraculous and misunderstood. As Tim Spector shows in this... Read more about Ferment

The Anthony Bourdain Reader

New, Classic, and Rediscovered Writing

By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: TBD
Length: TBA

The definitive, career-spanning collection of writing from Anthony Bourdain, assembled for the first timeAnthony Bourdain represented many things to many people—and he had many sides. But no part of his identity was more important to him, and more longlasting, than that of a writer. The Anthony Bourdain Reader is a collection of his best and... Read more about The Anthony Bourdain Reader

On Eating

The Making & Unmaking of My Appetites

By: Alicia Kennedy
Narrated by: Alicia Kennedy
Length: TBA

With lush prose and evocative storytelling, Alicia Kennedy shares her journey “from eater to cook,” exploring how we can eat for both joy and justice in a warming, overworked, and globalized world.
 
As a girl, I ate like a king.  
 
So begins beloved author, journalist, and influencer Alicia Kennedy’s captivating new book. On... Read more about On Eating

Accidental Shepherd

How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway

By: Liese Greensfelder
Narrated by: Emily Sutton-Smith
Length: 10 hours 46 minutes

In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived in the small Norwegian town of Øystese to startling news: Johannes, the farmer who hired her for the summer, had just been hospitalized after a stroke. Could she please watch over his place for a month or so, until he got back on his feet? Twenty years old and with no farming experience, Liese was dropped... Read more about Accidental Shepherd

Why We Eat (Too Much)

The New Science of Appetite

By: Andrew Jenkinson
Narrated by: John Sackville
Length: 10 hours 41 minutes

Brought to you by Penguin.

Articulate, clear, a joy to read, this is a book that really needed written' Joanna Blythman, author of Swallow This

'Highly persuasive ... a radical approach to weight' Sunday Times
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A practical, accessible guide to understanding the diet myth and the secret to... Read more about Why We Eat (Too Much)

Chocolate Wars

From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry

By: Deborah Cadbury
Narrated by: Finty Williams
Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

READ BY FINTY WILLIAMS. The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to... Read more about Chocolate Wars

Sun and Ssukgat

The Korean Art of Self-Care, Wellness & Longevity

By: Michelle Jungmin Bang
Narrated by: Jolene Kim
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

A charming guide to living a longer, happier, healthier life, rooted in Korean self-care

For centuries, Korean families have shared wellbeing wisdom with loved ones, like gifted heirlooms passed down from generation to generation, to prevent and treat early illness. The idea is to stop symptoms before they become chronic, taking inspiration from... Read more about Sun and Ssukgat

Endangered Eating

America's Vanishing Foods

By: Sarah Lohman
Narrated by: Sarah Lohman
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

“A solid, compassionate and thorough deep dive into a handful of endangered foods, like Navajo Sheep and Carolina Peanuts, and the people and practices working to keep them alive. It's a healthy reminder that food is so important, and it's so important to keeping community and culture alive and thriving and loved. And also food is so good. Big fan. Read more

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Abridged

Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking

By: Samin Nosrat
Narrated by: Samin Nosrat
Length: 5 hours 57 minutes

“Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat will make you a better cook” (Bon Apetit). Millions of readers and cooks of all levels have radically transformed their skillset thanks to this indispensable cookbook from the chef NPR called “the next Julia Child.”

Transform how you prep, cook, and think about food with this visionary master class in cooking by Samin... Read more about Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat - Abridged

Eat a Peach

A Memoir

By: David Chang & Gabe Ulla
Narrated by: David Chang
Length: 9 hours 6 minutes

“I'm a sucker for egomaniacal chef memoirs, and this one is no exception. Packed with mistakes, moments of genius and lots of culinary vocabulary, Chang's narration is direct, his style efficient as knife skills on the line. Amazing to think that Momofuku changed the way we eat more than 15 years ago. If you liked "Kitchen Confidential," download... Read more

Fry Bread

A Native American Family Story

By: Kevin Noble Maillard
Narrated by: Kevin Noble Maillard
Length: 34 minutes

Fry bread is food. It is warm and delicious, piled high on a plate. Fry bread is time. It brings families together for meals and new memories. Fry bread is nation. It is shared by many, from coast to coast and beyond. Fry bread is us. It is a celebration of old and new, traditional and modern, similarity and difference. Told in lively and... Read more about Fry Bread

Accidentally on Purpose

By: Kristen Kish
Narrated by: Kristen Kish
Length: 10 hours 28 minutes

A tender, cleareyed memoir, Accidentally on Purpose charts a journey full of purpose, belonging, and real love—a “recipe for a life worth living” (Stacy London).

Kristen Kish never could have imagined people on the street knowing her name—not when she was a carefree softball-tossing kid, in high school working at a pretzel stand, and not even... Read more about Accidentally on Purpose

The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill
Length: 13 hours 4 minutes

A National Book Award finalist and instant fantasy classic about the power of community, generosity, books, and baked goods, from the author of the beloved Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon. The town of Stone in the Glen used to be lovely, but it hasn’t been so in a very long time. 

Once a celebrated town with a vibrant town... Read more about The Ogress and the Orphans

Dirt

Adventures in Lyon as a Chef in Training, Father, and Sleuth Looking for the Secret of French Cooking

By: Bill Buford
Narrated by: Bill Buford
Length: 16 hours 51 minutes

“You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal

What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and... Read more about Dirt

Bourdain

The Definitive Oral Biography

By: Laurie Woolever
Narrated by: Laurie Woolever, Christopher Bourdain, José Andrés, Nigella Lawson, W. Kamau Bell & Full Cast
Length: 11 hours 28 minutes

“Listen to this book. It's a full cast recording! For anyone who misses Anthony Bourdain's voice in this world, they are sure to enjoy listening to his friends, family and colleagues reminisce about their time with Bourdain and process his sudden death. Read more

Tart

Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef

By: Slutty Cheff
Narrated by: Charly Clive
Length: 7 hours 53 minutes

“A uniquely fun and visceral read from start to finish. The writing style is singular and the descriptions of food, cooking, listlessness, depression, infatuation and friendship are all so real and honest. Reading someone writing about food like this makes me realize just how much of a foodie I am, because I soaked it all up. I’ll be thinking... Read more

Notes from a Young Black Chef

A Memoir

By: Kwame Onwuachi & Joshua David Stein
Narrated by: Kwame Onwuachi
Length: 7 hours 37 minutes

“Kwame Onwuachi’s story shines a light on food and culture not just in American restaurants or African American communities but around the world.” —Questlove
 
By the time he was twenty-seven years old, Kwame Onwuachi had opened—and closed—one of the most talked about restaurants in America. He had launched his own catering company with... Read more about Notes from a Young Black Chef

Barbarians at the Gate

The Fall of RJR Nabisco

By: Bryan Burrough & John Helyar
Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
Length: 22 hours 18 minutes

#1 New York Times bestseller and arguably the best business narrative ever written, Barbarians at the Gate is the classic account of the fall of RJR Nabisco at the hands of a buyout from investment firm KKR.A book that stormed both the bestseller list and the public imagination, a book that created a genre of its own, and a book that gets at the... Read more about Barbarians at the Gate

Diary of a Big Bad Wolf

Your favourite fairytales from a BIG BAD point of view!

Fairytale Woods: Book #1

By: Ben Miller
Narrated by: Ben Miller
Length: 1 hour 36 minutes

Once upon a time was only the start... welcome to the Fairytale Woods! Listen to the big bad wolf's hilarious secret diary in this instant bestseller from author, comedian and actor Ben Miller.

*DIARY OF A PUSS IN BOOTS AVAILABLE OUT NOW* 

'I need to raise my game again now spring is here, and get back in shape. Show the pack... Read more about Diary of a Big Bad Wolf

A Cook's Tour

Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

By: Anthony Bourdain
Narrated by: Anthony Bourdain
Length: 5 hours 50 minutes

Read by the author and available digitally for the first time From the star of No Reservations, Anthony Bourdain's New York Times-bestselling chronicle of travelling the world in search the globe's greatest culinary adventures"Bourdain shows himself to be one of the country's best food writers. His opinions are as strong as his language, and his... Read more about A Cook's Tour

Finding Freedom

A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

By: Erin French
Narrated by: Erin French
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

“Erin French's memoir is so impressive, highly engrossing, and also so tough to read. She brings us through her life, all the highest peaks and deepest valleys and emphasizes the tremendous effort she has made to come back from each low point. I often listened to French's narration with bated breath, shocked at how much she has overcome in such a... Read more

Setting the Table - Abridged

The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business

By: Danny Meyer
Narrated by: Danny Meyer
Length: 5 hours 37 minutes

The bestselling business book from award-winning restauranteur Danny Meyer, of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake ShackSeventy-five percent of all new restaurant ventures fail, and of those that do stick around, only a few become icons. Danny Meyer started Union Square Cafe when he was 27, with a good idea and hopeful investors. He is... Read more about Setting the Table - Abridged

Yes, Chef

A Memoir

By: Marcus Samuelsson
Narrated by: Marcus Samuelsson
Length: 11 hours 47 minutes

JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“One of the great culinary stories of our time.”—Dwight Garner, The New York Times
 
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her... Read more about Yes, Chef

Radical Remission

Surviving Cancer Against All Odds

By: Kelly A. Turner
Narrated by: Kelly A. Turner
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

A groundbreaking and inspiring book that provides the nine keys that can lead to a spontaneous remission from cancer-even after conventional medicine has failed. Early in her career, Kelly Turner, Ph.D., a researcher, lecturer, and counselor in Integrative Oncology, was shocked to discover that no one was studying episodes of radical remission,... Read more about Radical Remission

My Life in France

By: Julia Child
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found her “true calling.”

From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre, en route to Paris, in the fall of 1948, Julia had an awakening that changed her life. Soon this tall, outspoken gal from Pasadena, California, who... Read more about My Life in France