Best selling cookbooks 2023

Last month our friends at cookbook stores around the world gave us their picks for their favorite books of 2023 which we then included in our Best of the Best of 2023. Now we asked them for their top sellers of 2023 (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. I did find a list of best-sellers to US libraries which may be of interest (top list below). Source: Library Journal

Amazon UK produced their top sellers of the year (across all genres) and the #1 and #3 sellers were cookbooks from the same author – Bored of Lunch – The Healthy Air Fryer Book at #1 and Bored of Lunch – The Healthy Slow Cooker Book at #3. Two of the Pinch of Nom books were in the top 20 and Jamie Oliver’s latest 5 Ingredients Mediterranean was at #21.

Amazon USA top sellers of 2023 list doesn’t have a cookbook appearing until #29 – Baking Yesteryear by TikTok star B. Dylan Hollis – and The Complete Cookbook for Young Chefs by America’s Test Kitchen is at #74. There are only three cookbooks in Amazon USA’s top 100, which is half of last year’s six. As last year, Amazon UK had many more big selling cookbooks with 16 out of the top 100 (six of them being for air fryer books).

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

Sales to US Libraries

1. Magnolia Table, Volume 3 by Joanna Gaines
2. Y’all Eat Yet? by Miranda Lambert
3. Sweet Enough by Alison Roman
4. Tasting History by Max Miller
5. Milk Street Noodles by Christopher Kimball
6. Love & Lemons Simple Feel Good Food by Jeanine Donofrio
7. The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z by Tamar Adler
8. One: Simple One-Pan Wonders by Jamie Oliver
9. Baking Yesteryear by B. Dylan Hollis
10. Truly Simple by Kristin Cavallari

Omnivore Books (San Francisco)

1. Kung Food by Jon Kung
2. Sweet Enough by Alison Roman
3. Rintaro by Sylvan Mishima Brackett
4. More is More by Molly Baz
5. What’s for Dessert by Claire Saffitz
6. Seafood Simple by Eric Ripert
7. Made in Taiwan by Clarissa Wei
8. Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon
9. The Cookie That Changed My Life by Nancy Silverton
10. Let’s Eat by Dan Pelosi

Now Serving (Los Angeles)

1. More is More by Molly Baz
2. Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
3. Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
4. The Don’t Panic Pantry Cookbook by Noah Galuten
5. Make It Japanese by Rie McClenny
6. Made in Taiwan by Clarissa Wei
7. Texture Over Taste by Joshua Weissman
8. Asada by Bricia Lopez
9. The Cookie That Changed My Life by Nancy Silverton
10. Let’s Eat by Dan Pelosi

Kitchen Arts & Letters (New York)

1. Unreasonable Hospitality by Will Guidara
2. Seafood Simple by Eric Ripert
3. Ever-Green Vietnamese by Andrea Nguyen
4. Tasting History by Max Miller
5. More Than Cake by Natasha Pickowicz
6. Pasta: The Guide to the Most Loved Italian Food by ItaliaSquisita
7. Tacos CDMX
8. Frantzén by Bjorn Frantzén
9. Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
10. Food of the Italian Islands by Katie Parla

Book Larder (Seattle)

1. The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt
2. Sweet Enough by Alison Roman
3. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques by J. Kenji López-Alt
4. More is More by Molly Baz
5. Big Heart, Little Stove by Erin French
6. Every Night is Pizza Night by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt
7. Smitten Kitchen Keepers by Deb Perelman
8. Pasta for All Seasons by Michela Tartaglia
9. Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon
10. Tasting History by Max Miller

Vivienne Culinary Books (Portland OR)

1. Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon
2. The Everlasting Meal Cookbook: Leftovers A-Z by Tamar Adler
3. First Generation by Frankie Gaw
4. Salad Freak by Jess Damuck
5. Veg-Table by Nik Sharma
6. Mayumu by Abi Balingit
7. More is More by Molly Baz
8. Pulp by Abra Berens
9. Scandinavian from Scratch by Nichole Accettola
10. The Lula Cafe Cookbook by Jason Hammel

Bold Fork Books (Washington D.C.)

1. Start Here by Sohla El-Waylly
2. Let’s Eat by Dan Pelosi
3. The World Central Kitchen Cookbook by José Andrés
4. Maydan by Rose Previte
5. Pasta Every Day by Meryl Feinstein
6. Sweet Enough by Alison Roman
7. More is More by Molly Baz
8. Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon
9. At the Table by Katherine Miller
10. Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat 

CANADA 

Appetite for Books (Toronto)

1. Lidia’s From Our Family Table to Yours by Lidia Matticchio Bastianich & Tanya Bastianich Manuali
2. Salad Pizza Wine by Various
3. Dinner in One by Melissa Clark
4. Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon
5. Sweet Enough by Alison Roman
6. More Than Cake by Natasha Pickowicz
7. Persiana Everyday by Sabrina Ghayour
8. Shabbat by Adeena Sussman
9. 5 Ingredients! Quick & Easy Food by Jamie Oliver
10. Six Seasons by Joshua McFadden

The Cookbook Co. Cooks (Alberta)

1. Anna Olson’s Baking Wisdom by Anna Olson
2. In Mary’s Kitchen by Mary Berg
3. You Are Human and You Need Cake by Julie Van Rosendaal
4. Prairie by Dan Clapson & Twyla Campbell
5. Eat Alberta First by Karen Anderson
6. Farmhouse Vegetables by Michael Smith
7. A Very Prairie Christmas Bakebook by Karlynn Johnston
8. Sweet Enough by Alison Roman
9. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
10. More is More by Molly Baz

AUSTRALIA

Scrumptious Reads (Brisbane)

List not yet received.

NEW ZEALAND

Cook the Books (Auckland)

1. Ripe Recipes – Thought for Food by Angela Redfern
2. Re-Food: Exploring the troubled food system of Aotearoa New Zealand by Emily King
3. Enjoy by Kelly Gibney
4. The Best of Spirit House by Helen Brierty
5. Miss Polly’s Kitchen by Polly Markus
6. Home Style Cookery by Matty Matheson
7. Basics to Brilliance: Kids by Donna Hay
8. Everyday Favourites by Vanya Insull
9. Be Good by Buffy Ellen Gill
10. Kai by Christall Lowe

U.K.

cookbookbake (Brighton)

1. Guide to East Sussex Pub Walks by David Weller
2. Bold Beans by Amelia Christie-Miller
3. The Healing Cookbook by Gemma Ogston
4. Taste by Stanley Tucci
5. Have You Eaten? by Verna Gao
6. More Daily Veg by Joe Woodhouse
7. Pomegranates and Artichokes by Saghar Setareh
8. Now & Then by Tessa Kiros
9. Mother Tongue by Gurdeep Loyal
10. Bitter by Alexina Anatole 

EUROPE

De Kookboekhandel (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

1. Toscanini – Pasta by Maud Moody & Leonardo Pacenti
2. Tenderheart by Hetty McKinnon
3. Mezcla by Ixta Belfrage
4. Haniyé by Matay de Mayee
5. One: Pot Pan Planet by Anna Jones
6. Med by Claudia Roden
7. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
8. Italopop by Vanja van der Leeden
9. Brutto by Russell Norman
10. Noedels by Emma de Thouars

Goldhahn und Sampson (Berlin, Germany)

1. Ottolenghi Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
2. Ottolenghi Flavour by Yotam Ottolenghi, Ixta Belfrage & Tara Wigley
3. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
4. Jerusalem by Yotam Ottolenghi & Sami Tamimi
5. Genussvoll Vegetarisch (Plenty) by Yotam Ottolenghi
6. Splendido by Mercedes Lauenstein & Juri Gottschall
7. Vegetarische Köstlichkeiten (Plenty More) by Yotam Ottolenghi
8. Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things by Yotam Ottolenghi & Noor Murad
9. Erde, Salz & Glut by Susann Probst & Yannic Schon
10. Mezcla by Ixta Belfrage