Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme by The Artsy Reader. This week’s topic is Books that Make Me Hungry. Honestly, most books make me hungry at some point. Any time food comes up, I end up with odd cravings. Needless to say, this list could have been like a hundred books long, but I managed to wrangle it down to just ten.
- Not Like The Movies by Kerry Winfrey – The main character in this book spend a ton of time trying to perfect her pie recipe.
- The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren – This one is more about drinks – every time they mentioned a tropical drink, I wanted one (it didn’t help I was reading it on a beach in Mexico)
- Geekerella by Ashley Poston – This book takes place partially in a food truck – I ordered take out at least once while reading.
- Well Met by Jen DeLuca – I wanted a turkey leg and some mead while reading this.
- The Bride Test by Helen Hoang – When Esme started working at a restaurant while taking night school, the author described the food so incredibly well.
- The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang – The scene where Stella goes over to Michael’s house and eats with his family, I wanted to try all the foods.
- Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell – I WANT ALL THE PUMPKIN FLAVORED THINGS.
- The Hating Game by Sally Thorne – If this book doesn’t make you crave strawberries, did you even read it?
- One Day in December by Josie Silver – This book wasn’t food centered, but I really wanted hot chocolate the whole time I read it.
- When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon – I wanted iced coffee. If you know, you know.
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I love that you can pinpoint which each book made you want. That was fun to read and reminded me of those moments in the ones I have read on your list.
Geekerella makes me want to go out on a food truck hunt too. Nice list!
Great list!! A few more suggestions for readers who are also perhaps foodies … Deborah Crombie, A BITTER FEAST, a mystery about a restaurant in a small town in the Cotswolds, England. Also BRUNO, CHIEF OF POLICE (and the rest of the series) by Martin Walker. These are cozy mysteries sent in the French countryside and I swear they pull out French bread and cheese and pate and wine every few pages …. Oh, and A YEAR IN PROVENCE, which is an oldie but goodie, a fun read by Peter Mayle. 🙂 Happy Monday, heading into Tuesday, and holy cow is it already September tomorrow?
I love that you included what food each book made you crave! Great idea.
my list: https://www.bookshelfjourneys.com/post/top-10-tuesday-hungry-books
Good call with Geekerella!
I haven’t read any of these! But I do have One day in December on my TBR list. Love how you compared your cravings.
Happy TTT and here’s my 10 Books that make me hungry
I still need to read The Unhoneymooners, but I can imagine how perfect it would be to read it on a Mexican beach!
I haven’t read any of these but I love your list (and all things pumpkin)!
I love your picks so much. Thanks for the post.
Great list! I totally agree about Well Met–I spent the whole time wishing I was at a Ren Faire and having a medieval feast.
YES! Pumpkinheads made my list this week too (surprised I haven’t seen it more since it was SO foodie!) but ugh, reading that GN made me SO hungry! Haha I was constantly craving all the fall themed foods that I’d never be able to find here 😂 Great post!
What a great list! I love that you talk about each specific part of the books that made you hungry, ha! I love a lot of these books too! 😊
Here’s my TTT post. Happy reading!
I want all the pumpkin flavoured things, too!
My post .
Ha, I so agree about Pumpkinheads! It was supposed to be on my list this week, but I seem to have forgotten to include it. 🙂 And yes to all the iced coffee in Dimple’s book and the tropical drinks in Unhoneymooners — either one sounds perfect.
I love the food memories you have attached to these reads 🙂
Here’s my TTT post.
I definetly to pick up Pumpkinheads this autumn!
The Kiss Quotient had me drooling over the food they were making. I feel like we need a copy of these recipes to sate the cravings haha.
Yes!! Petition for a Helen Hoang cookbook!
That’s an awesome list! The Unhoneymooners… yes the drinks!! 🙂
YES for The Unhoneymooners!! Definitely made me more thirsty than hungry, with that opening buffet, haha! Great list 🙂
Fun list! I can see wanting iced coffee while reading When Dimple Met Rishi! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday.
Oh, yes to so many of these! And I just picked up a copy of Well Met, so I’m excited to finally read that one. <3
So many great books this week! But I’ll definitely be checking out One Day in December—any book that can make me crave hot chocolate is A+ in my book.
Oooooh, amazing list! Books don’t actually make me super hungry all that often, but not gonna lie, Pumpkinheads made me want to live at a fall festival with an endless supply of snack money haha! So many yummy things!
Not Like the Movies sounds so fun and cute, and also, someday I still need to read “Geekerella”! Hope to remedy this soon. Thanks so much for visiting Finding Wonderland on this week! 🙂