It’s been a while since we’ve done a Top Ten Tuesday but this prompt really caught our eye… because it’s food-themed! We’ve teamed up to bring you ten books that make us hungry. Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
1. Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food and Love
I love love LOVE Hungry Hearts so much. It’s an anthology of short stories all about food and love of food and how food is tied to your identity. I’ve done a full review of each of the 13 stories and it’s definitely a book that I will reread over and over (with food by my side).
2. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
In the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy, Lara Jean always makes the most delicious desserts. Her love of baking and her quest to find the perfect choc chip cookie recipe makes her one of my favourite characters to read about (minus all the love triangle stuff, etc etc).
3. With the Fire on High
I just read and reviewed With the Fire on High the other week and there is so much foodie goodness in this book! Not only did it have the most gorgeous and delicious-looking cover, but food is a major theme in the main character, Emoni’s coming-of-age story. It made me want to get into the kitchen and cook while I was reading it.
4. Flour and Stone: Baked for Love, Life and Happiness
This isn’t a novel but it is one of my favourite recipe books of all time. Flour and Stone is a bakery in Sydney that makes the most delicious pastries and cakes. I was gifted their recipe book last year and I’ve made so many of the recipes with great success. The instructions are so detailed that it’s almost a bit difficult to stuff up. And all of the food photos in the book make me salivate.
5. The Scorpio Races
Who remembers how delicious November Cakes?! They were fictional cakes, with a syrupy sauce, made for the festival in The Scorpio Races. It sucked, not having any point of reference of what these could taste like, until Maggie Stiefvater heself created a recipe!!… which I still haven’t had a chance to make because it sounds a little bit complicated and I am not a skilled baker….
6. Kiss my Cupcake
This is Helena Hunting’s new romcom and has a lot of food mentioned! Both main characters run a bar/ cafe respectively. Blaire’s cupcake creations in particular sound AMAZING.
7. Serpent & Dove
One of Lou’s big characteristics is her giant sweet tooth, and specifically her love for sweet buns/ cinnamon rolls. They sounded delicious and also have me questioning if I’ve ever actually eaten them… I have a feeling I have not.
8. Darius the Great Is Not Okay
I loved the food so much in Darius the Great Is Okay – he goes back to Iran to visit his grandparents and his grandma makes him some wonderful Persian food and tea.
9. The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling
If the title isn’t any indication of the food in this book, then the bright, poppy cover with the dumplings on it definitely gives it away! In the book, the main character helps out at her father’s restaurant, so there’s definitely a lot of Chinese food and dumplings here.
10. The Astonishing Colour of After
As the main character goes back to Taiwan to visit her grandparents, she discovers the night noodle markets there and the delicious Chinese food and noodles which her grandma makes.
What’s a book that made you hungry?
Jenna
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The only one I could think of is The Wrath and The Dawn by Renee Ahdieh. That book is just filled with vividly described meal that it makes me really hungry while reading!
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I only read book 1 of TATBILB and?? I was sooo hungry obvs
I tried to bake juste like Lara Jean, but I have to face the truth, I’m not as talented as her
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I didn’t even think about With the Fire on High, but that seems like it should’ve been an obvious one now that I think about it. xD I haven’t read The Scorpio Races yet, but those November Cakes sound absolutely fabulous and I want some now. *grabby hands*
Here’s my TTT post.
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Hungry Hearts sounds like a pretty delicious read for sure.
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I haven’t read Kiss My Cupcake just yet, but I really want to! I’m now imaging I’ll need to hide all the sweets while reading. 😉
How did I not know there was officially a November cake recipe?!
Great list! I definitely felt hungry after reading this haha. Thanks for sharing!
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The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling made it to my list as well. Because why wouldn’t it haha. That book made me so hungry. Thanks for the post all!
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