The Big Tasty Read Booklist

The Reading Agency and BBC Arts have unveiled their latest campaign booklist, using the universal appeal of food to inspire reading. Tuck in!

The full list of titles is:  

  1. The Language of Food, by Annabel Abbs  
  2. Recipes for Love and Murder, by Sally Andrew 
  3. My Life in France: The Life Story of Julia Child, by Julia Child, with Alex Prud’homme, introduced by Olivia Potts 
  4. Meet Me at the Cupcake Café, by Jenny Colgan 
  5. Hungry: A memoir of wanting more, by Grace Dent  
  6. Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel, translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen 
  7. Chocolat, by Joanne Harris 
  8. Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter, by Angela Hui 
  9. Climbing the Mango Trees, by Madhur Jaffrey 
  10. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, by Barbara Kingsolver 
  11. A Half Baked Idea, by Olivia Potts 
  12. The Briar Club, by Kate Quinn 
  13. A Thousand Feasts, by Nigel Slater 
  14. Sweet Bean Paste, by Durian Sukegawa, translated by Alison Watts 
  15. Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers, by Jesse Sutanto 
  16. Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives, by Kitty and Al Tait 
  17. Taste: My Life Through Food, by Stanley Tucci 
  18. In the Kitchen: Essays on Food and Life, by various contributors 
  19. Tales From the Kitchen: A collection of essays and short stories, by various contributors 
  20. Black Cake, by Charmaine Wilkerson 
  21. Butter, by Asako Yuzuki, translated by Polly Barton 
  22. Crying in H Mart, by Michelle Zauner 
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