The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book An innovative landmark from “one of the really great cooks of all time” (James Beard). More
The Boys of Summer Beloved sports classic published to immediate critical success about Ebbets Field and the Brooklyn Dodgers. More
Frank Warren The book that set a course. At The Book Thing in Baltimore I saw a man persistently searching over the used-book shelves. More Frank Warren
Jay Onrait I read because as much as I love film and television, and documentaries, and Facebook, and Twitter and Snapchat, and my abacus . . . More Jay Onrait
The Kitchen Diaries Now in its third installment; the original was named “Book of the Year” by sixteen publications. More
Bradley Trevor Greive If not for My Family and Other Animals, by Gerald Durrell, I wouldn’t be a writer . . . mind you, I probably wouldn’t have had five treatments for rabies either. More Bradley Trevor Greive
The Dangerous Book for Boys A genre-busting “guidebook” that was a bestseller in the U.K., the U.S., and Canada. More
Kitchen Confidential New York Times bestseller that helped launch a wave of interest in chefs and the culinary arts. More
Michele A’Court I read because I want to live more than one life. Books take us out of ourselves into a whole other world. More Michele A’Court
Emily Post’s Etiquette This “bible of etiquette” has been published by HarperCollins for more than three decades. More