Memoirs; Science & Nature; Pop Culture; Self Help; Food & Home.
With Rebecca Vnuk, Barry Trott, Kaite Stover, David Wright and Jessica Moyer
Public Library Association Annual Conference, March 14, 2014
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Rebecca Vnuk, Reference & Collection Management Editor, Booklist. rvnuk@ala.org
Rebecca is the Editor for Reference and Collection Management at Booklist. She is the author of 3 Reader’s Advisory titles for Libraries Unlimited: Women’s
Fiction: A Guide to Popular Reading Interests (co-authored by Nanette
Donohue), Read On…Women’s Fiction, and Women’s Fiction Authors: A Research
Guide. In 2010, Rebecca was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker as well as the recipient of PLA’s Allie Beth Martin Award. Catch her online at http://shelfrenewal.booklistonline.com/.
Top Five “Classic” Memoir Writers: (okay, they’re famous…)
 Anna Quindlen
 Nora Ephron
 Augusten Burroughs
 Pat Conroy
 Anne Lamott
*Special shout-out to David Sedaris, who is really more of a humorist/essayist, but…
Top Five Must-Know Memoirs:
 The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
 Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
 The Color of Water: A Black Man’s Tribute to his White Mother by James
McBride
 Liar’s Club by Mary Karr
 The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Top Five Trends in Memoirs:
 It Happened to Me: True tales of extraordinary life moments, from getting busted smuggling drugs ( Orange is the New Black by Piper

Kerman ) to losing your memory and your mental capacity thanks to a random pathogen ( Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah
Calahan)
 Damn, I’m Funny: Biting and often sarcastic essays from the likes of
Jennifer Lancaster, ( Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Attempt to
Unarrest Her Arrested Development; Or, Why It's Never Too Late for Her
Dumb Ass to Learn Why Froot Loops Are Not for Dinner), Laurie Notaro
,( We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive) or Paul Feig ( Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence)
 I’m a Blogger and I Scored a Book Deal! : Hey, some bloggers can actually write! ( Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson, aka
The Bloggess; Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh, The Pioneer Woman:
Black Heels to Tractor Wheels by Ree Drummond)
 It Sucks to be a Mom: True tales of parenthood. (a la Nicole
Knepper’s Moms Who Drink and Swear: True Tales of Loving My Kids
While Losing My Mind; It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a
Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita by Heather B. Armstrong – also a blogger)
 We Put the FUN! In Dysfunctional: Not necessarily a new trend, dysfunctional families are always popular. ( Disaster Preparedness by
Heather Havrilesky; Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her
Mother's Compulsive Hoarding by Jessie Scholl)
Top Five New Memoirs:
 Hospice Voices by Eric Lindner
 New Life, No Instructions by Gail Caldwell
 Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising
Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty
Much Led to One Calamity After Another by Ellen Stimson
 Glitter and Glue by Kelly Corrigan
 Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart
Five of Rebecca’s Personal Favorites:
 Talking to Girls About Duran Duran by Rob Sheffield
 I’m Down by Mishna Wolff
 I Was Told There’d Be Cake by Sloane Crossley
 The Late Bloomer’s Revolution

 Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan
Barry Trott, Digital Services Director, The Williamsburg Regional Library btrott@wrl.org
Barry is past chair of the RUSA CODES Readers’ Advisory Committee and currently serves on the Readers’ Advisory Research and Trends Forum. He is the editor of RUSQ, the professional journal of the Reference and User Services
Association. He also is the editor of the Read On series (Libraries Unlimited) and author of Read On … Crime Fiction. In 2007, Barry won both the RUSA Margaret
Monroe Award for Adult Services and PLA’s Allie Beth Martin Award.
Science and Nature writing appeals to reader curiosity. These titles are often of interest to readers trying to learn something or to expand their understanding of anything from the micro to the macro. It is a broad genre, moving from the laboratory to the field, sometimes in the same book.
Top Five “Classic or Go-To” Science and Nature Titles:
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The Hot Zone by Richard Preston (pandemics, medicine)
Panda's Thumb by Stephen Jay Gould (natural history, history of science)
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan (agriculture)
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (environment)
In Suspect Terrain by John McPhee (geology and history)
Top Five Trends in Science and Nature Writing
 The Science Behind: Books exploring how things work is a burgeoning subgenre of science writing. From sports to digestion and beyond find out how science makes the world go ‘round. Newton’s Football: The Science behind
America’s Game by Allen St. John and Ainissa Ramierz; Gulp: adventures on the alimentary canal by Mary Roach; The book of immortality: the science, belief, and magic behind living forever by Adam Gollner.
 Microhistories: These one-word-titled books are still a huge draw for readers.
They give that in-depth knowledge of often esoteric, but always fascinating, topics. Readers are drawn in for the blend of history and science. On paper: the everything of its two-thousand-year history by Nicholas Basbanes; Gold: the race for the world's most seductive metal by Matthew Hart; or Fizz: how soda shook up the world by Tristan Donovan.
 Ecology and the Environment: Global climate change, GMOs, peak oil, pandemics, all those scary things that make us wonder if there is a future. You can read with hope or despair, take your pick. Water 4.0: the past, present, and future of the world's most vital resource by David Sedlak; Seedtime: on the

history, husbandry, politics, and promise of seeds by Scott Chaskey; Deadly outbreaks: how medical detectives save lives threatened by killer pandemics, exotic viruses, and drug-resistant parasites by Alexandra Levitt.
 Last Things: As more species becoming endangered, there is a subgenre of nature writing that takes the reader out in the field on the hunt for rare birds, hidden amphibians and the like. These titles mix elegy with science and add in a bit of social history too. Imperial Dreams: Tracking the Imperial Woodpecker through the Wild Sierra Madre by Tim Gallagher; Swordfish: the biography of the ocean gladiator by Richard Ellis; The sixth extinction: an unnatural history by
Elizabeth Kolbert.
 Trending Now--Trees: Trees in paradise: a California history by Jared Farmer;
The consolations of the forest: alone in a cabin on the Siberian taiga by Sylvain
Tesson; Ginkgo: the tree that time forgot by Peter Crane; The embattled wilderness: the natural and human history of Robinson Forest and the fight for its future by Erik Reece.
Five Up-and-Coming Titles
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Five of Barry’s Personal Favorites
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Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
by Alan Weisman
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
The Incidental Steward: Reflections on Citizen Science by Akiko Busch
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the
World Works ed. John Brockman
On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Life of the Skies by Jonathan Rosen
Musicophilia by Oliver Sacks
Kaite Mediatore Stover, Director of Readers’ Services, The Kansas City Public
Library kaitestover@kclibrary.org
Kaite manages to fit her day job in between writing “He Reads, She Reads” with
David Wright for Booklist, “Under the Radar” with Jessica Moyer, contributing columns to NoveList, and blogging for Book Group Buzz. Sometimes she can be heard on the local Kansas City airwaves with the Book Doctors and the BetterKC
Morning Show hustling her latest favorite reads. She doesn’t let any of this get in the way of her porch redecorating, tarot card reading, bikram yoga, and stress baking. Oh, and she co-edited a book, The Readers’ Advisory Toolkit with
Jessica. She hangs out with Rebecca, Jessica, and Barry in the Library Journal

Movers ‘n Shakers gang (class of ’03) and shares the Allie Beth Martin Award with Barry and Rebecca (class of ’12).
Popular Culture emphasizes subject over author. It’s constantly changing with the trends and times. The books may have a very short shelf life but look to these classic pop culture titles for the nonfiction lovers who can’t resist adding to their mental warehouses.
Top Five Authors to Know:
 Mark Harris
 Howard Sounes
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 Austin Kleon
 Robin Givhan
 A.J. Jacobs
Top Five “Classic or Go-To” Pop Culture Titles:
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Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume & Style
An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned but Probably
Didn’t by Judy Jones
Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things by Charles Panati
Bad TV by Craig Nelson
Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20 th Century America by
Tom and Sue Pendergast
Top Five Trends in Pop Culture
 Definitive Histories: Culture is easiest to understand when it comes in an approachable history with zippy writing. The “definitive history” of objects, movements, and concepts is a growing subgenre in historical nonfiction writing, but focus on a quirky subject and the whole world will read. An Uncommon
History of Common Courtesy: How Manners Shaped the World by Bethanne
Patrick; History Laid Bare: Love, Sex, and Perversity from the Ancient Etruscans to Warren G. Harding by Richard Zacks; American Fun: Four Centuries of Joyous
Revolt by John Beckman.
 Be an Artist (Or Just Live Like One): It seems like MFAs are the new MBAs and everyone wants to be an artist when they grow up. Boost your creativity or street cred with Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being
Creative by Austin Kleon or What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art by Will Gompertz.
 The Back-story: The back-story trend in pop culture allows trivia buffs to feel smart outside of the pub quiz arena. Join their ranks. Five Came Back: A Story of
Hollywood and the Second World War by Mark Harris; One Way Out: The Inside

History of the Allman Brothers Band by Alan Paul; The Anatomy of Fashion: Why
We Dress the Way We Do by Colin McDowell.
 Techno-Social Media: Technology says it’s making us smarter, but I’m not feeling it. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime
Underground by Kevin Poulsen; Things Come Apart: A Teardown Manual for
Modern Living by Todd McLellan; Digital Cosmopolitans: Why We Think the
Internet Connects Us, Why it Doesn’t, and How to Rewire It by Ethan
Zuckerman.
 Trending Now--Denmark: The Happiest Place on Earth is not Disneyland, it’s
Denmark. How to Be Danish: A Journey to the Cultural Heart of Denmark by
Patrick Kingsley; A Piece of Danish Happiness: One Woman Finds the Secrets of the Happiest People in the World by Sharmi Albrechtsen; Cultureshock! Denmark by Morten Strange.
Five Up-and-Coming Titles
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The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant
Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
27: A History of the 27 Club Through the Lives of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis
Joplin, Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, and Amy Winehouse by Howard Sounes
Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth L. Cline
Writing On The Wall: Social Media: The First 2,000 Years by Tom Standage
The $11 Billion Year: From Sundance to the Oscars, An Inside Look at the
Changing Hollywood System by Anne Thompson
Five of Kaite’s Personal Favorites
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Pretty in Pink: The Golden Age of Teenage Movies by Jonathan Bernstein
Dress Code: Understanding the Hidden Meaning of Women’s Clothes by Toby
Fischer-Mirkin
Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour by Kate Fox
Broadway: The American Musical by Michael Kantor and Laurence Maslon
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior
David Wright, Reader Services Librarian, Seattle Public Library dwright@spl.org
David Wright is a librarian in the reader services department at the Seattle Public
Library’s Central branch. He has written for The Seattle Times, NoveList Plus,
Library Journal, and Booklist, contributed chapters to Genreflecting, Research
Based Reader’s Advisory and The Readers’ Advisory Toolkit, and has taught and presented in various venues. Day by day, in every way, he is getting better and better.

Top Five Classic Self Help Books
Nothing academic about these classic self-help titles, who are still popular today.
 Marcus Aurelius:
 Dale Carnegie:
Meditations thinker advised us to never let the turkeys get us down. Marcus and Sun Tzu are among many ancient authors still sought out for advice on contemporary problems.
 Benjamin Franklin:
. Almost two millennia ago, this great stoic
Autobiography . The founding father of American selfhelp broke from the courtly tradition of conduct books with his influential bootstrapping advice for the common man.
How to Win Friends and Influence People . The relentlessly upbeat, no-nonsense agenda of this hugely influential handbook on realizing the
American Dream helped set the tone for much 20 th Century self-help writing.
 Bill W: Alcoholics Anonymous,
Napoleon Hill (
aka “The Big Book.”
 Norman Vincent Peale: long line of positive thinking gurus from James Allen (
After works of scripture, the most turned-to book of all time for those seeking freedom from their demons, the book’s message of letting go and letting God has reached far beyond those battling addiction.
The Power of Positive Thinking
As Man Thinketh ) and
Think and Grow Rich ) to Esther and Jerry Hicks ( The Laws of
Attraction ) and Rhonda Byrne (The Secret .)
. Chief among a
Top Five Must-Know Self Help Titles:
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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People , by Steven S. Covey.
The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, by Deepak Chopra.
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel
Ruiz
Chicken Soup for the Soul, by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen.
The Alchemist, by Paolo Coelho.
Top Five Trends in Self Help.
Self-Help literature is vast, with many contradictions. Here’s a look at the current scene.
 The Habit of Habit. Rejecting mystically-tinged laws of attraction, many selfhelp titles are turning to behavioral science to offer more detailed, researchbased advice on effecting positive changes and realizing goals, emphasizing how over why, and brain over mind. Far from holistic spiritual self-realization, the current down-to-earth trend focuses on small behavioral changes and the cultivation of healthy habits using clinically tested methods, often augmented by newly popular apps and gadgets. “Habit” is this season’s buzzword.
 Authentically Imperfect. As grandiose dreams of American self-determinism are scaled back, there is a recent trend towards works that move away from selfimprovement and positivity towards self-acceptance and what might be termed imperfectionism. This focus on valuing vulnerability and facing our negative feelings calls into question the traditional emphasis on wealth and success, exploring qualities of weakness, introversion, humility and poverty in ways that

have traditionally had little place in the self help narrative. Self-help has gotten wise to its own flaws and contradictions, and incorporated them in a more realistic agenda.
 Genre-blending. Self Help has always crossed subject areas and genres, from religion to business to sex to the occult. Now more than ever titles as far afield as fiction, graphic novels, humor, poetry, philosophy and popular science are appearing with a distinct self-help angle. Memoirs have an especially strong and seamless overlap with the traditional themes of self-help. Many readers turn to popular memoirs about overcoming adversity for the same kind of solace and inspiration they have traditionally derived from self-help, which often draws upon similar stories.
 Self Help TV. “So, you’ve written a self-help book, but you haven’t been in
Oprah magazine, on Dr. Phil or Dr. Oz, or done a TED Talk? Who were you again?” Now more than ever, the multi-billion dollar self-help industry is a multimedia phenomenon, with demand for books driven by TV, radio and the web.
See how long you can channel surf without hitting some self-help, be it chat shows, reality tv or public television. Most of what you see comes with a book.
 And the Next Big Trend is: The last big trend! It is only natural that an industry focused on reinvention of the self would be continually repackaging and replicating itself. As niche media channels proliferate, new self-help trends do not supersede each other but simply add-on, building followings of their own. Right now in a library somewhere, a reader is learning The Rules so she can play The
Game , seeking simplicity through random acts of daily affirmation, kindling that fire in their wheat belly, feeling the fear yet running with the wolves anyway along the road less travelled, an eightfold path to seven spiritual laws and habits of highly sensitive angels. Moral: learn the backlist and help them get into it.
Top Five Up and Coming Self-Help Authors
Who will be the next Wayne Dyer or Deepak Chopra? Who knows? (Answer:
Oprah knows!). Maybe one of these:
 Brené Brown. ( The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, I Thought it Was Just
Me.
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 Glennon Doyle Melton. (C arry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing Your Messy,
Beautiful Life.)
 Sheryl Sandberg. (
 Rick Hanson. (
 Kamal Ravikant. (
Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead
Hardwiring Happiness. Buddha’s Brain.)
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Live Your Truth. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It .)
Top Five Personal Self-Help Favorites
 Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career
Design, by Laurence Boldt.
 When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! by Yogi Berra.
 The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking, by

Oliver Burkeman.
 A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy, by William Braxton
Irvine.
 Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking, by Daniel C Dennett
Honorable mentions:
Lamb-Shapiro.
Promise Land: My Journey Through America’s Self-Help Culture, by Jessica
How to Read How-To and Self-Help Books: getting real results from the advice you get , by Janne Ruokonen.
“The part I really don’t understand is if you’re looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else? That’s not self-help. That’s help.” -George Carlin.
Jessica Moyer, School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee. jessicaemilymoyer@gmail.com
“A House is not a home without a cat.” - Anonymous.
Jessica E. Moyer is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee where she teaches courses in readers’ advisory, reference services and foundations of library and information science. She is the editor and contributing author of Integrated Advisory and Research Based Readers’
Advisory. She is the co-editor of The Readers’ Advisory Handbook with her favorite English major and librarian Kaite Stover who also co-writes the Under the Radar column for Public Libraries. Jessica likes to talk about books, cats, audiobooks and science fiction. Sometimes she even manages to get them all in the same conversation.
Top Five Classic Food and Home.
 Martha Stewart: The Homekeeping Handbook: The Essential Guide to
Caring for Everything in Your Home . Because it’s Martha she really means
EVERYTHING. Librarians will appreciate her tips for care of your personal library and the stain guide is one of the most comprehensive out there. Based on 30 years of Martha Stewart publications, this massive volume is the only home care guide you need.
 Bill Buford: Heat: An Amateur Cook in a Professional Kitchen
 Mark Kurlansky:
. In his quest to learn how to cook his beloved Italian favorites, Buford apprentices himself to Mario Batali (many years before he became a TV personality) and learns just how hard life can be in the restaurant business. Appearances by many famous chefs make this a must read for fans of restaurant and chef stories.
 Anthony Bourdain: Kitchen Confidential the stage for the dozens published every year since. An unflinching look at the life of a professional chef sprinkled with Bourdain’s signature scathing critique of food culture (this book’s one reason he’s never been on the Food Network)
Salt: A World History
. One of the first chef memoirs it set
. If this microhistory of one of the

world’s most desired minerals doesn’t make you crave salty food, you must be a zombie. First of many food based world histories.
 Jane and Michael Stern: Roadfood: The Coast to Coast Guide to 900 of the best barbeque joints, lobster shacks, ice cream parlors, highway
diners and much more. Years before Diners, Drive-ins and Dives was a
Foodnetwork staple Jane and Michael Stern created this definitive guide to local eats (first published in 1977). Now in it’s 9 th edition it’s still one of the best guides to eating your way across the United States.
Top Five Must-Know Food and Home.
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At Home: A Short History of the Private Life By Bill Bryson.
Julie and Julia, by Julie Powell.
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting, by Michael Perry
Blood, Bones and Butter: The Reluctant Education of an Inadvertent Chef, by
Gabrielle Hamilton.
The French Chef! With Julia Child. Video series from PBS by Paolo Coelho.
Top Five Trends in Food and Home.
Keep an eye for new authors and titles in these areas and make sure to checkout the example titles for each of the trend areas.
 Fermentation and distilling. We just can’t get enough homebrew and craft cocktails. American Whiskey, Bourbon and Rye: A guide to the nation’s favorite spirits; Homebrew Beyond the Basics: All Grain Brewing and Other Next Steps;
The Art od Fermentation: An In-Depth Exploration of Essential Concepts and
Processes from Around the World; Bitters A Spirited History of a Classic Cure-All
With Cocktails, Recipes, and Formulas; Delicious Probiotic Drinks: 75 Recipes for
Kombucha, Kefir, Ginger Beer and Other Naturally Fermented Drinks , and
Whiskey: A Very Peculiar History .
 Canning, preserving and homesteading. It’s not just for grandmothers! As times have gotten tougher and jobs are scarcer growing, preserving, and making all your own foods have become more something relegated to Grandma’s kitchen. From Scratch: An Introduction to French Breads, Cheeses, Preserves,
Pickles, Charcuterie, Condiments, Yogurts, Sweets and More; Wild Edibles: A
Practical Guide to Foraging With Easy Identification of 60 plants and 67 Recipes;
Pickles and Preserves: A Savor the South Cookbook; Put Em Up! Preserving
Answer Book: 399 Solutions to All Your Canning, Freezing, Drying, Fermenting and Making Infusions; Modern Pioneering: More than 150 Recipes, Projects, and
Skills for a Self-sufficient Life
 Gluten Free, Dairy Free, and the Paleo Diet. Specialized diets have always existed but in the last few years they’ve gone from fringe to mainstream and so have the books to support these eaters. The Ancestral Table: Traditional
Recipes for the Paleo Lifestyle; Go Barley: Modern Recipes for an Ancient Grain;
The Sprouted Kitchen: A Tastier Take on Whole Foods; Weeknight Gluten Free;

The Superfoods Cookbook; Almonds Every Which Way: More Than 150 Healthy and Delicious Almond Milk, Almond Flour, and Almond Butter Recipes; The
Healthy Smoothie Bible: Lose Weight, Detoxify, Fight Disease, and Live Long;
The Paleo Dessert Bible: More Than 100 Delicious Recipes for Grain-Free and
Dairy-Free Desserts; Well Fed 2: More Paleo Recipes
 Finding yourself through food. Part memoir, part food story these tales draw in the memoir crowd who can also appreciate a good meal. No Experience
Necessary: The Culinary Odyssey of Chef Norman Van Aken; Afield: A Chef’s
Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish; Girl Hunter: Revolutionizing the Way We Eat One Hunt at a Time; Deer Hunting in Paris; My Life From
Scratch: A Sweet Journey of Starting Over, One Cake At a Time; Dirty Chef:
From Big City Food Critic to Foodie Farmer; Mastering the Art of French Eating:
Lessons in Food and Love from a Year in Paris
 Middle Eastern Food and Cooking. The widespread love for Jerusalem: A
Cookbook signaled the start of the latest regional trend in food and cooking.
Look for titles like Istanbul: Recipes from the Heart of Turkey ; New Flavors From the Lebanese Table; Under the shade of the Lemon Tree: Recipes from
Jerusalem to Marrakech and Beyond; The Food of Morocco; An Edible Mosaic:
Middle Eastern Fare with Extraordinary Flair; Balaboosta; Man’oushe: Inside the
Street Corner Lebanese Bakery
Five Authors to Know: Always reliable, regularly publishing these five authors can be the backbone of any collection
 Ruth Reichl. ( Garlic and Sapphires, Not Becoming My Mother, Delicious!
 Michael Pollan ( Omnivore’s Dilemna, In Defense of Food, Cooked)
 Martha Stewart (
 Mark Kurlansky (
Cooking School, Baking Handbook, Martha’s Cupcakes)
Salt, Cod, The Big Oyster )
 Lynne Rossetto Kasper (
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The Splendid Table Cookbook, How to Eat Summer,
Italian Holidays: Eating in With Lynne)
Jessica’s Top Five Personal Food and Home Favorites
 Two for the Road by Jane and Michael Stern.
 Julie and Julia and Cleaved by Julie Powell
 The Art and Soul of Baking by Sur La Table
 Enslaved by Ducks by Bob Tarte
 Blood, Bones, and Butter by Gabriel Hamilton
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