Shannon's "Edible Fiction: A Reading List"

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Fiction about food and cooking, preferably with recipes. Note: With some exceptions, short story collections, young adult fiction, romances and mystery series have been eliminated if so identified. Also, I have striven to include high-quality books only.

  1. 1.
    Bailey's Cafe (Vintage Contemporaries)
    by Gloria Naylor

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  2. 2.
    Bread Alone: A Novel
    by Judith R. Hendricks

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  3. 3.
    The Book of Salt: A Novel
    by Monique Truong

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  4. 4.
    The Christmas Letters
    by Lee Smith

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  5. 5.
    The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
    by John Lanchester

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  6. 6.
    Dinner at Antoine's
    by Frances Parkinson Keyes

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  7. 7.
    Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
    by Jorge Amado

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  8. 8.
    Eat Cake
    by Jeanne Ray

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  9. 9.
    Eating Crow: A Novel of Apology
    by Jay Rayner

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  10. 10.
    The Edible Woman
    by Margaret Atwood

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  11. 11.
    Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
    by Fannie Flagg

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  12. 12.
    Friendship Cake: A Novel
    by Lynne Hinton

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  13. 13.
    A Good Year (MTI)
    by Peter Mayle

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  14. 14.
    Heartburn
    by Nora Ephron

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  15. 15.
    The Lemon Jelly Cake (Prairie State Books)
    by Madeline Smith

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  16. 17.
    Pomegranate Soup: A Novel
    by Marsha Mehran

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  17. 18.
    The Spice Box
    by Lou Jane Temple

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  18. 20.
    Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
    by Sandra Chastain

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  19. 21.
    Take Big Bites
    by Linda Ellerbee

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  20. 22.
    The Thin Woman
    by Dorothy Cannell

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  21. 23.
    Velma Still Cooks in Leeway: A Novel
    by Vinita Hampton Wright

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  22. 24.
    World of Pies: A Novel
    by Karen Stolz

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  23. 25.
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    The School of Essential Ingredients
    by Erica Bauermeister

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Created by Shannon on Jul 09, 2008.
 

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