Here is my selection of the best bread making books. These highly rated cookbooks provide you with a huge variety of great tasting bread recipes with easy-to-understand instructions and beautiful recipe photos.
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Bread Machine Cookbooks
- The Bread Lover’s Bread Machine Cookbook – This book has over 300 great bread machine recipes.
- The No-Fuss Bread Machine Cookbook – This cookbook has 150+ recipes focused on “hassle free” bread.
- 300 Best Bread Machine Recipes – This popular cookbook has 300+ bread machine recipes such as classic French, cinnamon raisin, flaxseed and coffee raisin.
- The Ultimate Bread Machine Cookbook: Family Recipes for Foolproof, Delicious Bakes – This book helps you to make breads such as “Loaded Baked Potato Bread”, “Farmers’ Market Veggie Patch Bread” “Milk & Honey Bread” and “Speedy Sourdough Loaf”.
“How To” Bread Books – Highly rated cookbooks focused on teaching you how to make bread (mainly with an oven). They look at how to knead bread, how to shape loaves, etc.
- Bread Baking for Beginners: The Essential Guide to Baking Kneaded Breads, No-Knead Breads, and Enriched Breads – Hugely popular. Great book on bread making!
- Bread Illustrated: A Step-By-Step Guide to Achieving Bakery-Quality Results At Home – This cookbook provides step-by-step instructions and tons of illustrations on how to make a huge variety of breads. It has extremely high ratings.
- The Bread Bible – This book is a bread making classic.
- The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, 15th Anniversary Edition: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread – Another very popular book on bread making.
Sandwich Cookbooks – Turn your homemade bread into amazing sandwiches.
- The Encyclopedia of Sandwiches – This cookbook has a HUGE number of different sandwich recipes.
- The Ultimate Sandwich: 100 Classic Sandwiches, from Reuben to Po’Boy and Everything in Between – This book covers “classics such as the Club Sandwich, Reuben and BLT” and exotic sandwiches such as “Mufflettas, Tortas, Po’boys and Banh mis”.
- Wow! 1001 Homemade Sandwich Recipes – Another book popular with Bread Dad visitors.
Grilled Cheese & Panini Cookbooks – Homemade bread equals delicious hot & toasty grilled cheese & paninis.
- Grilled Cheese Kitchen: Bread + Cheese + Everything in Between – The author has won seven grilled cheese championships.
- The Great Grilled Cheese Book: Grown-Up Recipes for a Childhood Classic – This cookbooks provides a wide range of grilled cheese recipes including “classic white bread with American cheese to “The Champ” (a taleggio and short rib extravaganza); the “Johnny Pastrami,” which combines pastrami with the bite and freshness of apple chutney; and “The Tomater” with creamy mozzarella and a sun-dried tomato spread”.
- Perfect Panini: Mouthwatering recipes for the world’s favorite sandwiches – Looking for delicious “toasty” sandwiches? Then you should look at this very popular panini cookbook.
- The Ultimate Panini Press Cookbook: More Than 200 Perfect-Every-Time Recipes for Making Panini – This highly rated cookbook has over 200 recipes including recipes for “Croque Monsieur and Reuben panini as well as imaginative creations like a Grilled Asparagus and Prosciutto panini and Chipotle Chicken Quesadillas”.
- 200 Best Panini Recipes – This cookbook has 200 amazing recipes such as salami, prosciutto, mozzarella panini with roasted red peppers; Philly cheesesteak panini, sweet Italian sausage, provolone and tomato sauce panini; pulled pork panini and Cuban panini.
Sourdough Bread Cookbooks
- Bread Machine Sourdough Cookbook: Flavorful, No-Fuss Recipes for Any Machine – This book focuses on sourdough breads such as “basic breads, whole-grain loaves, and sweet and savory delights, including French sourdough, pumpernickel, and double chocolate nut bread”.
- Sourdough Cookbook for Beginners: A Step-by-Step Introduction to Make Your Own Fermented Breads – This sourdough book provides “a complete walkthrough of bread baking, plus beginner recipes, a handy glossary, and troubleshooting tips for every step”.
- Sourdough Every Day: Your Guide to Using Active and Discard Starter for Artisan Bread, Rolls, Pasta, Sweets and More
Gluten Free Bread Cookbooks
- The Gluten-Free Bread Machine Cookbook: 175 Recipes for Splendid Breads and Delicious Dishes to Make with Them – Gluten free recipes for your bread machine.
- Gluten-Free Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day: The Baking Revolution Continues with 90 New, Delicious and Easy Recipes Made with Gluten-Free Flours
- How To Make Gluten Free Bread That Actually Tastes Good: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide
Artisan Bread Cookbooks – These books will help you to create more advanced artisan breads.
- The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day
- 200 Fast and Easy Artisan Breads: No-Knead, One Bowl
- Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
- The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day – Popular with Bread Dad visitors.
Bagel Books – These highly rated books will help you to make great tasting homemade bagels or learn the history of the bagel.
- Bagels, Schmears, and a Nice Piece of Fish: A Whole Brunch of Recipes to Make at Home – This bagel cookbook has recipes for a variety of different bagels such as blueberry bagels, sesame bagels, etc.
- Modern Jewish Baker: Challah, Babka, Bagels & More – A cookbook focused on popular Jewish breads.
International Bread Books
- The Banh Mi Handbook: Recipes for Crazy-Delicious Vietnamese Sandwiches
- The Big Book of Indian Breads: Master Indian Griddle Breads, Deep Fried Breads, Tandoori Breads, Crepes, Pancakes, and Much More!
- Bread on the Table: Recipes for Making and Enjoying Europe’s Most Beloved Breads
- The Italian Baker, Revised: The Classic Tastes of the Italian Countryside–Its Breads, Pizza, Focaccia, Cakes, Pastries, and Cookies
- Kawaii Bread – Asian-style breads
- Mooncakes and Milk Bread: Sweet and Savory Recipes Inspired by Chinese Bakeries
- Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine
Flatbread Recipes
- Flatbreads & Flavors: A Baker’s Atlas – A highly rated cookbook.
- Flatbread: Toppings, Dips, and Drizzles
“Unique” Bread Making Books – Survival breads, camping breads, etc.
- Pocket Field Guide: Wilderness Survival Breads, Hard Tacks, Ash Cakes, Biscuits & Bannocks – These recipes are great for camping, wilderness training… or surviving a zombie apocalypse!
- The Encyclopedia Of High Altitude Baking – Live high up in the mountains? Then you might like to read this book on high altitude baking. High altitude bread making differs from “low land” bread making.
Bread “Scoring” Books – These books show you how to “score” (cut/slice) the top of your bread in order to reduce the potential for unwanted cracks in the crust.