Hungry for your next read?

Feast on delectable stories from our February Book Challenge: Books with Food in the Title. On our menu are books with delicious titles that sound just good enough to eat (but please do not actually eat them). Tuck in to tales of all different tastes, whether its spicy thrillers, sizzling romances,or savory murder mysteries. Still craving more? Sink your teeth into a new series that will have you asking for seconds, or feed your mind and soul with a sweet and wholesome novel. 

So if you’re starving for a good book, grab a snack and dig in to these tasty titles. Bon Appetit!

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
A young runaway boards a raft and sets off down the Mississippi, setting in motion a series of memorable adventures that have intrigued readers of all ages for over a century. Huck Finn and his loyal companion, the escaped slave Jim, form one of literature’s greatest friendships.

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe – Fannie Flagg
Mrs. Threadgoode’s tale of two high-spirited women of the 1930s, Idgie and Ruth, helps Evelyn, a 1980s woman in a sad slump of middle age, to begin to rejuvenate her own life.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society – Mary Shaffer
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation.

The Bean Trees: A Novel – Barbara Kingsolver
Taylor Greer hits the road wanting only to get as far away from Kentucky as possible, ending up in Arizona with a 3-year-old Cherokee girl she has inherited from a woman in a bar.

The House on Mango Street – Sandra Cisneros
For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.

The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: a Novel – Lisa See
Explores the lives of a Chinese mother and her daughter, who has been adopted by an American couple, tracing the very different cultural factors that compel them to consume a rare native tea that has shaped their family’s destiny for generations.

The Apple Orchard – Susan Wiggs
Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a 100-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she’s never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
*First of a Series

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Presents Burgess’ satire of the present inhumanity of man to man through a futuristic culture where teenagers rule with violence.

Pizza Girl: A Novel – Jean Kyoung Frazier
Eighteen years old, pregnant, and working as a pizza delivery girl in suburban Los Angeles, our charmingly dysfunctional heroine is deeply lost and in complete denial about it all. Her world is further upended when she becomes obsessed with Jenny, a stay-at-home mother new to the neighborhood, who comes to depend on weekly deliveries of pizzas for her son’s happiness. As one woman looks toward motherhood and the other toward middle age, the relationship between the two begins to blur in strange, complicated, and ultimately heartbreaking ways.

Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles – A.L. Herbert
Halia Watkins, the owner of a well-loved soul food restaurant in Prince George’s County, Maryland, investigates after a smooth-talking, shady entrepreneur turns up murdered in her kitchen, right next to her cast iron frying pan. Features delicious recipes from Mahalia’s Sweet Tea, including Sour Cream Cornbread and Sweet Corn Casserole.
*First of a Series