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Shannon's "Edible Fiction: A Reading List"

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. Bread Alone: A Novel
by Judith R. Hendricks
  
2. The Debt to Pleasure: A Novel
by John Lanchester
  
3. Eat Cake
by Jeanne Ray
  
4. Eating Crow: A Novel of Apology
by Jay Rayner
  
5. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
  
6. A Good Year (MTI)
by Peter Mayle
  
7. Last Bite: A Novel of Culinary Romance
by Nancy Verde Barr
  
8. The Lemon Jelly Cake (Prairie State Books)
by Madeline Smith
  
9. Pomegranate Soup: A Novel
by Marsha Mehran
  
10. She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana
by Michael Lee West
  
11. Sweet Tea and Jesus Shoes
by Sandra Chastain
  
12. Take Big Bites
by Linda Ellerbee
  
13. World of Pies: A Novel
by Karen Stolz
  
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Created by Shannon on Jul 09, 2008.