The best selling books of 2022

January 27, 2023 by
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Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2022 which we then included in our Best of the Best of 2022. Now we asked them for their top sellers of 2022 (published 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) – Jamie Oliver’s One was the #4 book but most of the other 17 cookbooks in the top 100 were diet/health books. Tom Tivnan from the trade publication The Bookseller talked on BBC Radio 4 The Food Programme about UK top selling cookbooks (report starts at 10:30 in podcast) and he reported that 15 of the top 25 selling cookbooks in 2022 had slimming or healthy in the title. He also mentioned 2022 was the 2nd or 3rd best year ever for cookbook sales in the UK though only 76 cookbooks sold more than 10,000 copies last year.

Amazon USA top sellers of 2022 list doesn’t have a cookbook appearing until #31 Half Baked Harvest Every Day by Tieghan Gerard with Go To Dinners by Ina Garten at #33 and Snoop Dogg’s From Crook to Cook at #34. There are six cookbooks in Amazon USA’s top 100, which is a slight improvement on last year’s four. As last year, Amazon UK had many more cookbooks with 18 out of the top 100.

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. What’s for Dessert by Claire Saffitz
  2. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
  3. Korean American by Eric Kim
  4. The Woks of Life by Bill, Judy, Sarah & Kaitlin Leung
  5. The Cook You Want to Be by Andy Baraghani
  6. Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
  7. The Joy of Pizza by Dan Richer
  8. Taste by Stanley Tucci
  9. Mi Cocina by Rick Martinez
  10. Dinner in One by Melissa Clark

Now Serving (Los Angeles)

  1. Somebody Feed Phil The Book by Phil Rosenthal
  2. Mi Cocina by Rick Martinez
  3. Korean American by Eric Kim
  4. Noma 2.0 by René Redzepi, Junichi Takahashi and Mette Søberg
  5. The Cook You Want to Be by Andy Baraghani
  6. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
  7. Masa by Jorge Gaviria
  8. What’s Gaby Cooking: Take It Easy by Gaby Dalkin
  9. Salad Freak by Jess Damuck
  10. California Soul by Keith Corbin

Kitchen Arts & Letters (New York)

  1. Via Carota by Jody Williams, Rita Sodi & Anna Kovel
  2. Noma 2.0 by René Redzepi, Junichi Takahashi and Mette Søberg
  3. Korean American by Eric Kim
  4. Green Fire by Francis Mallmann
  5. Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
  6. Art of the Chicken by Jacques Pépin
  7. Smitten Kitchen Keepers by Deb Perelman
  8. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
  9. Dinner in One by Melissa Clark
  10. Frantzén by Björn Frantzén

Book Larder (Seattle)

  1. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
  2. The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt
  3. Cannelle et Vanille Bakes Simple by Aran Goyoaga
  4. Everyday Cake by Polina Chesnakova
  5. Mooncakes & Milk Bread by Kristina Cho
  6. Mamushka by Olia Hercules
  7. Korean American by Eric Kim
  8. Every Night is Pizza Night by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
  9. Salad Freak by Jess Damuck
  10. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden

Bold Fork Books (Washington D.C.)

  1. Korean American by Eric Kim
  2. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
  3. All About Cookies by Christina Tosi
  4. What’s for Dessert by Claire Saffitz
  5. The Weekday Vegetarians by Jenny Rosenstrach
  6. Dinner in One by Melissa Clark
  7. Salad Freak by Jess Damuck
  8. I Dream of Dinner by Ali Slagle
  9. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat
  10. Mi Cocina by Rick Martinez

CANADA 

The Cookbook Co. Cooks (Alberta)

  1. You Are Human and You Need Cake by Julie Van Rosendaal
  2. Cookies I Have Loved by Julie Van Rosendaal
  3. Calgary Eats by Gail Norton and Karen Ralph
  4. Don’t Worry Just Cook by Bonnie Stern and Anna Rupert
  5. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
  6. Always Add Lemon by Danielle Alvarez
  7. Bread and Water: Essays by dee Hobsbawn-Smith
  8. Pasta Grannies: Comfort Cooking by Vicky Bennison
  9. Smitten Kitchen Keepers by Deb Perelman
  10. Whitewater Cooks Together Again by Shelley Adams

AUSTRALIA

Scrumptious Reads (Brisbane)

  1. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
  2. RecipeTin Eats: Dinner by Nagi Maehashi
  3. Italian Street Food by Paola Bacchia
  4. Taste by Stanley Tucci
  5. Mezcla by Ixta Belfrage
  6. Every Night of the Week by Lucy Tweed
  7. The Joy of Better Cooking by Alice Zaslavsky
  8. Mabu Mabu by Nornie Bero
  9. The Food Savers A-Z by Alex Elliott-Howery & Jaimee Edwards
  10. The Real Food Companion by Matthew Evans

U.K.

cookbookbake (Brighton)

  1. Guide To East Sussex Pub Walks by David Weller
  2. Taste by Stanley Tucci
  3. One: Pot Pan Planet by Anna Jones
  4. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
  5. A Waiter in Paris by Edward Chisholm
  6. Mushrooms (Collins Gem) by Patrick Harding
  7. Mezcla by Ixta Belfrage
  8. Food for Free (Collins Gem) by Patrick Harding
  9. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
  10. The Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer

EUROPE

De Kookboekhandel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

  1. De Banketbakker by Cees Holtkamp & Jonah Freud
  2. Memmisj by Jonah Freud
  3. De groene bakplaat (The Green Roasting Tin) by Rukmini Iyer
  4. Simpel (Simple) by Yotam Ottolenghi
  5. Groentebijbel by Mari Maris
  6. Eén Pan, Plaat, Planeet (One Pot Pan Planet) by Anna Jones
  7. The Mexican Vegetarian Cookbook by Margarita Carrillo Arronte
  8. Vegan JapanEasy by Tim Anderson
  9. De Bijbel van de Indonesische Keuken by Maureen Tan
  10. Bras, the Tastes of Aubrac by Sébastien Bras

Goldhahn und Sampson (Berlin, Germany)

  1. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
  2. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
  3. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
  4. Ottolenghi Flavour by Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage & Tara Wigley
  5. Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi
  6. One by Jamie Oliver
  7. Splendido by Mercedes Lauenstein & Juri Gottschall
  8. Mezcla by Ixta Belfrage
  9. Auf den Spuren des Hummus (On the Hummus Route) by Ariel Rosenthal
  10. An Unapologetic Cookbook by Joshua Weissman

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10 Comments

  • Rinshin  on  January 27, 2023

    Definitely see local preferences

  • bhasenstab  on  January 27, 2023

    Amazing to see five Ottolenghi titles in that Berlin bookstore’s top ten! Quite the sensation, he is.

  • gamulholland  on  January 27, 2023

    (Or support your local indie bookshop if you don’t have an indie cookbook shop nearby. That’s my compromise, although I do order by mail from a cookbook shop if that’s where I heard about the book.). 🙂

  • ellabee  on  January 28, 2023

    I read and enjoyed a lot of the wok articles at Serious Eats last year, and through them learned that Kenji Lopez-Alt had a book out, but hadn’t heard much about it in the meantime. So I was impressed to see the consistency with which it sold in different regions. A testament to the solid teachings in Food Lab, I’m guessing.

  • Hominin  on  January 28, 2023

    I love these lists, live in Ireland, great to see what’s popular in good foodie bookshops around the world. Just added Unreasonable Hospitality and The Cook You Want to Be to my books to pick up list (they’re sitting there alongside Hoppers – expect it will be on some of the UK lists next year – and Jakoni). Have got a huge amount of value out of the lists in previous years (off hand Nopalito which I wouldn’t otherwise have heard of otherwise continues to be a treat).

  • EskieF  on  January 29, 2023

    THREE of the books identified as bestsellers by cookbookbake in Brighton, UK are NOT cookbooks at all! (1) Guide to East Sussex Pub Walks – is what its title says it is, a guide to walking trails to/from pubs (5) A Waiter in Paris is a memoir of the writer’s time as a waiter in Parisian restaurants and (6) Mushrooms (Collins Gem) is a field guide to foraging for mushrooms!
    Cookbookbake in Brighton obviously sells books that are not cookbooks.

    • Jane  on  January 29, 2023

      cookbookbake is a cooking/cookbook store which is why we include it. Unfortunately the only other cookbook store in the UK, Books for Cooks in London, never responds to any of our emails asking for their best cookbooks or top sellers. So we are very grateful that cookbookbake does contribute. They did in fact supply us with two lists – one just cookbooks – but we decided to list their overall top sellers since it was interesting to see what sells locally. P.S. if any EYB members shop at Books for Cooks, please let them know how useful EYB is for cookbook lovers (it may help).

  • EskieF  on  January 29, 2023

    Following up on my earlier message… from their own Facebook page, here are the 10 bestselling COOKbooks from cookbookbake in Brighton, UK:
    (1) Taste by Stanley Tucci
    (2) One: Pot Pan Planet by Anna Jones
    (3) Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
    (4) Mezcla by Ixta Belfrage
    (5) Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
    (6) The Green Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer
    (7) The Nutmeg Trail by Eleanor Ford
    (8) Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
    (9) Chilli and Mint by Torie True
    (10) East by Meera Sodha

  • Indio32  on  January 30, 2023

    Jane Re: Books for Cooks London was in there a few Saturdays ago and to be honest I don’t think your missing much. I haven’t ever found the staff overly helpful or even particuarly friendly, also the selection of books is pretty run of the mill. I bought 3 cookbooks that day but chose to get them from Daunts instead. I think I’ll leave it at that.

  • reader1trees  on  January 30, 2023

    Plainly everyone in Brighton reads The Guardian food pages. Fascinating to see that so many people in Berlin are keen on Team YO as well.

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