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March Book Madness: 2019 Food for Thought Book List

Apps & Drinks

Miss Spider's Tea Party
by David Kirk
Three Cups of Tea
by Greg Mortenson

The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
The Rum Diary
by Hunter S. Thompson

Wishful Drinking
by Carrie Fisher
Dandelion Wine
by Ray Bradbury

The Grapes of Math
by Greg Tang
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
by Peter Hedges

A Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry
Peanuts
by Charles M. Schulz

The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales
by Jon Scieszka
Who Moved My Cheese?
by Spencer Johnson

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
by Anthony Bourdain
In the Night Kitchen
by Maurice Sendak

Thirst
by Mary Oliver
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by Roxane Gay

Sides

Joy of Cooking
by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
by Samin Nosrat

A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
Ten Apples Up On Top!
by Theo LeSieg (Dr. Seuss)

Stone Soup
by Marcia Brown
Chicken Soup for the Soul
by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen

The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
The Carrot Seed
by Ruth Krauss

Spud
by John van de Ruit
The Princess and the Pea
by Janet Stevens and Hans Christian Andersen

Bread and Jam for Frances
by Russell Hoban
The Butter Battle Book
by Dr. Seuss

Eat, Pray, Love
by Elizabeth Gilbert
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
by Lynne Truss

The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper
by Phaedra Patrick
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg

Entrees

Babette's Feast
by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway

Rumble Fish
by S.E. Hinton
Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
by Daniel Wallace

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
by Michael Pollan
Food: A Love Story
by Jim Gaffigan

Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
Breakfast of Champions
by Kurt Vonnegut

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi Barrett
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser

A Feast for Crows
by George R.R. Martin
Chicken Little
by Steven Kellogg

The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin
by Beatrix Potter
The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris

Desserts

I Was Told There'd Be Cake
by Sloane Crosley
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
by Alan Bradley

The Big Honey Hunt
by Stan Berenstain and Jan Berenstain
Milk and Honey
by Rupi Kaur

Strawberry Girl
by Lois Lenski
The House on Mango Street
by Sandra Cisneros

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Blueberries for Sal
by Robert McCloskey

Like Water for Chocolate
by Laura Esquivel
Chocolat
by Joanne Harris

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald Dahl
The Chocolate War
by Robert Cormier

Sweet Tooth
by Ian McEwan
The Candy Shop War
by Brandon Mull

Feed
by M.T. Anderson
Heartburn
by Nora Ephron