Best Selling Books of 2024

Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2024 which we then included in our Best of the Best of 2024. Now we asked them for their top sellers of 2024 (published in any year).

It would be interesting to compare these charts to non-specialist store/online retailer book sales but it is very hard to get hold of book sales for an entire country.

Amazon UK produced their top sellers of the year (across all genres) and the highest cookbook was Pinch of Nom Air Fryer at #4. Bored of Lunch, which snagged the #1 and #4 slots last year, this year peaks at #12 for The Healthy Air Fryer Book and #13 for Healthy Slow Cooker Even Easier plus three more titles in the top 100. Emily English’s So Good is at #10 with 19 of the top 100 being cookbooks, which is impressive. Air fryers were obviously big purchases in the UK with five additional air fryer cookbooks in the top 100. Other books of note were Simply Jamie at #24, Mary’s Foolproof Dinners at #65, Ottolenghi Comfort at #68 (I thought that one would be higher), and How to Eat 30 Plants a Week by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall at #90.

Amazon USA top sellers of 2024 list doesn’t have a cookbook appearing until #64 – The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs by America’s Test Kitchen, which was at #74 last year. From Crook to Cook by Snoop Dogg (a 6 year old title) is at #75 and Ina Garten’s memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens is at #77. And that is it! Rather different to the UK’s top sellers.

Please do remember when buying cookbooks to support your local cookbook store, if you are lucky enough to have one. Most of the stores listed below are also doing mail order and gift vouchers so you can order from them even if you are not local (click the store name to get the contact info).

USA

Omnivore Books (San Francisco)

1. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
2. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
3. Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
4. Bake Club by Christina Tosi
5. The Memory of Taste by Tu David Phu & Soleil Ho
6. Martha: The Cookbook by Martha Stewart
7. Zahav Home by Michael Solomonov & Steven Cook
8. The Bean Book by Steve Sando
9. The Joy of Pizza by Dan Richer
10. Pass the Plate by Carolina Gelen

Now Serving (Los Angeles)

1. Make It Fancy by Brandon Skier
2. Sun-Kissed Cooking by Brooke Williamson
3. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
4. Big Vegan Flavor by Nisha Vora
5. What’s Gaby Cooking: Grilling All The Things by Gaby Dalkin
6. Pass the Plate by Carolina Gelen
7. Justine Cooks by Justine Doiron
8. Stacked by Owen Han
9. Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
10. Just Try It! by Phil Rosenthal

Kitchen Arts & Letters (New York)

1. Life’s Sweetest Moments by Dominique Ansel
2. Noma in Kyoto by René Redzepi
3. Easy Weeknight Dinners by NYT Cooking & Emily Weinstein
4. Good Taste by Alain Ducasse
5. The Irish Bakery by Cherie Denham
6. Burnt Ends by Dave Pynt
7. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
8. Salty, Cheesy, Herby, Crispy Snackable Bakes by Jessie Sheehan
9. The Four Horsemen by Nick Curtola
10. The Jewish Holiday Table by Naama Shefi

Book Larder (Seattle)

1. The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt
2. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
3. The Wok by J. Kenji López-Alt
4. Sunlight & Breadcrumbs by Renee Erickson
5. Every Night Is Pizza Night by Kenji Lopez Alt
6. Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
7. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
8. Sift by Nicola Lamb
9. Sweet Tooth by Sarah Fennel
10. Misunderstood Vegetables by Becky Selengut

Vivienne Culinary Books (Portland OR)

1. Everyone’s Table by Gregory Gourdet
2. Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy by Tieghan Gerard
3. Korean American by Eric Kim
4. I’ll Bring Dessert by Benjamina Ebuehi
5. Scandinavian from Scratch by Nichole Accettola
6. Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon
7. Flavorama by Arielle Johnson
8. Sift by Nicola Lamb
9. Le Sud by Rebekah Peppler
10. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden

Bold Fork Books (Washington D.C.)

1. What to Cook When You Don’t Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers
2. Bodega Bakes by Paola Velez
3. D.C. Cocktails by Travis Mitchell
4. The SalviSoul Cookbook by Karla T. Vasquez
5. Pass the Plate by Carolina Gelen
6. You Deserve Good Gelato by Kacie Rose
7. Justine Cooks by Justine Doiron
8. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
9. Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
10. What Goes With What by Julia Turshen

Binding Agents (Philadelphia)

1. Kalaya’s Southern Thai Kitchen by Nok Suntaranon
2. Bake Club by Christina Tosi
3. Dac Biet by Nini Nguyen
4. Chinese Enough by Kristina Cho
5. Juke Joints, Jazz Clubs & Juice by Toni Tipton-Martin
6. Breaking Bao by Clarice Lam
7. Indian-ish by Priya Krishna
8. You Gotta Eat by Margaret Eby
9. Mayumu by Abi Balingit
10. Bayou by Melissa M. Martin

Talbott & Arding (Hudson NY)

1. Not Too Sweet by Jessica Seinfeld
2. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
3. Flavorama by Arielle Johnson
4. Dinner with the President by Alex Prud’homme
5. Second Generation by Jeremy Salaman
6. Cooking in Real Life by Lidey Heuck
7. Let’s Eat by Dan Pelosi
8. Keep it Zesty by Edy Massih
9. Dolci! by Renato Poliafito
10. Salty, Cheesy, Herby, Crispy Snackable Bakes by Jessie Sheehan

Read it & Eat Bookshop (Buffalo NY)

1. 50 Pies, 50 States by Stacey Mei Yan Fong
2. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
3. The Accidental Joe by Tom Shaw
4. Justine Cooks by Justine Doiron
5. Cuisine on Screen by Sachiyo Harada
6. Nosh by Micah Siva
7. Arepa by Irena Stein
8. Tava by Irina Georgescu
9. Pasta Every Day by Meryl Feinstein
10. The Ex Project by Jennifer Aline

Kitchen Lingo Books (Long Beach CA)

1. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl
2. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
3. Butter: A Rich History by Elaine KIhosrova
4. The Vegan Butcher by Zach Bird
5. Niçoise by Rosa Jackson
6. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
7. Consider the Fork by Bee Wilson
8. Flavorama by Arielle Johnson
9. Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
10. The MeatEater Outdoor Cookbook by Steven Rinella

CANADA 

Appetite for Books (Montreal)

1. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
2. Shabbat by Adeena Sussman
3. Zaytinya by José Andrés
4. The Farm Table by Julius Roberts
5. Salad Pizza Wine by Janice Tiefenbach, Stephanie Mercier Voyer, Ryan Gray & Marley Sniatowsky
6. Cookies I Have Loved by Julie Van Rosendaal
7. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden
8. Seafood Simple by Eric Ripert
9. 5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food by Jamie Oliver
10. The Paris Novel by Ruth Reichl

The Cookbook Co. Cooks (Alberta)

1. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
2. Whitewater Cooks the Food We Love by Shelley Adams
3. Half Baked Harvest Quick & Cozy by Tieghan Gerard
4. The Bartender’s Pantry by Jim Meehan, Bart Sasso & Emma Janzen
5. Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten
6. Sift by Nicola Lamb
7. A Book About Bread by Issa Niemeyer-Brown
8. Tarts Anon by Gareth Whitton & Catherine Way
9. The Farm Table by Julius Roberts
10. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson

Good Egg (Toronto)

1. Nature’s Candy by Camilla Wynne
2. Sift by Nicola Lamb
3. Flour is Flavour by Dawn Woodward
4. Soups, Salads & Sandwiches by Matty Matheson
5. Bethlehem by Fadi Kattan
6. Justine Cooks by Justine Doiron
7. Pass the Plate by Carolina Gelen
8. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
9. The Book of Sandwiches by Jason Skrobar
10. A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater

AUSTRALIA

Scrumptious Reads (Brisbane)

1. Salad for Days by Alice Zaslavsky
2. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
3. RecipeTin Eats Tonight by Nagi Maehashi
4. Some of My Best Friends are Cookies by Emelia Jackson
5. What I Ate in One Year by Stanley Tucci
6. Love Crumbs by Nadine Ingram
7. Good Cooking Every Day by Julia Busuttil Nishimura
8. The Farm Table by Julius Roberts
9. Tony Tan’s Asian Cooking Class by Tony Tan
10. Beatrix Bakes Another Slice by Natalie Paull

NEW ZEALAND

Cook the Books (Auckland)

List not yet received.

U.K.

cookbookbake (Brighton)

List not yet received.

EUROPE

De Kookboekhandel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1. Toscanini – Pasta by Maud Moody & Leonardo Pacenti
2. Briljante Bonen (Brilliant Beans) by Bloeme Burena
3. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
4. Easy Wins by Anna Jones
5. Shortlist Amsterdam Red
6. Mezcla by Ixta Belfrage
7. The Green Roasting Tin by Rukimi Iyer
8. Italopop by Vanja Van der Leeden
9. Sebze by Ozlem Warren
10. Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon

Goldhahn und Sampson (Berlin, Germany)

1. Ottolenghi Comfort by Ottolenghi team
2. Hier fließt die Liebe by Forough & Sahar Sodoudi
3. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
4. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
5. Monsieur Vuong by Ursula Heinzelmann
6. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
7. Einfach Chinesisch by Sissi Chen
8. Asien Vegetarisch (East) by Meera Sodha
9. Fermentieren, Magie im Glas by Juliette Patissier
10. Man kann keine Steine essen by Shinroku Shimokawa