Here is our 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 tons of beautiful pictures.
So once you have finished making all of the great bread recipes on Bread Dad, the books below will provide you with hundreds of new & different recipes that you can make at home. You will find beginner breads, bread machine breads, artisan breads, sourdough breads, international breads & many more.
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Bread Machine Cookbooks – Great cookbooks focused on bread machine recipes. Updated.
- 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.
- Making Artisan Breads in the Bread Machine: Beautiful Loaves and Flatbreads from All Over the World
Bread Making Cookbooks – Highly rated cookbooks focused on teaching you how to make bread (mainly with an oven). Beginner & advanced bread recipes. Updated.
- 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 illustrations on how to make a huge variety of breads.
- The Bread Bible – This book is a very highly rated bread making classic.
- The Bread Baker’s Apprentice, 15th Anniversary Edition: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread – Another hugely popular book on bread making.
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
- Artisan Sourdough Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Delicious Handcrafted Bread with Minimal Kneading
- Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza
Best Sandwich & Panini Cookbooks – Our favorite sandwich recipe books! Updated.
- The Encyclopedia of Sandwiches – This cookbook has a HUGE number of different sandwich recipes.
- Posh Sandwiches: Over 70 Recipes, from Reubens to Banh Mi
- The Ultimate Sandwich: 100 Classic Sandwiches, from Reuben to Po’Boy and Everything in Between
- Grilled Cheese Kitchen: Bread + Cheese + Everything in Between
- Perfect Panini: Mouthwatering recipes for the world’s favorite sandwiches – Looking for delicious “toasty” sandwiches? Then you should look at panini cookbooks.
- The Ultimate Panini Press Cookbook: More Than 200 Perfect-Every-Time Recipes for Making Panini
- The Essential Panini Press Cookbook: 100 Creative and Classic Recipes
“Unique” Bread Making Books – Survival breads, camping breads, etc. Updated.
- 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 Campfire Foodie Cookbook: Simple Camping Recipes with Gourmet Appeal – Mainly highly rated non-bread campfire recipes. However, it does have some nice bread-related recipes such as skillet flatbread.
- Dutch Oven Breads – Learn how to make bread with a “Dutch oven”. You can even make bread over a campfire.
- 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.
Sourdough Bread Cookbooks – Great books with tons of sourdough bread recipes.
- New World Sourdough: Artisan Techniques for Creative Homemade Fermented Breads
- Artisan Sourdough Made Simple: A Beginner’s Guide to Delicious Handcrafted Bread with Minimal Kneading
- Wild Bread: Sourdough Reinvented
International & Ethnic Bread Making Books – Updated
- Rustic European Breads from Your Bread Machine
- 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
- The Big Book of Indian Breads: Master Indian Griddle Breads, Deep Fried Breads, Tandoori Breads, Crepes, Pancakes, and Much More!
- The Art of Caribbean Baking Cookbook
- Modern Jewish Baker: Challah, Babka, Bagels & More
- The Ultimate Tortilla Press Cookbook: 125 Recipes for All Kinds of Make-Your-Own Tortillas–and for Burritos, Enchiladas, Tacos, and More
Flatbread Recipes
- Flatbreads & Flavors: A Baker’s Atlas – A highly rated cookbook.
- Flatbread: Toppings, Dips, and Drizzles
Gluten Free Bread Cookbooks – These books are focused on helping people with gluten allergies or who want to remove gluten from their diet.
- 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
- Gluten-Free on a Shoestring Bakes Bread: (Biscuits, Bagels, Buns, and More)
- The Gluten-Free Bread Machine Cookbook: 175 Recipes for Splendid Breads and Delicious Dishes to Make with Them
Sweet Quick Bread Cookbooks – These cookbooks will help you to create many different types of sweet quick breads (that use baking soda/powder vs bread yeast) such as banana bread, pumpkin bread, cornbread, etc.
- Best Quick Breads: 150 Recipes for Muffins, Scones, Shortcakes, Gingerbreads, Cornbreads, Coffeecakes, and More
- The Big Banana Bread Cookbook
- Muffins & Quick Breads (Williams-Sonoma Kitchen Library)
- Pillsbury: Best Muffins and Quick Breads: Favorite Recipes from America’s Most-Trusted Kitchens
Related Books
- The Elements of Pizza: Unlocking the Secrets to World-Class Pies at Home – Very highly rated cookbook on how to make great pizzas at home.
- Mastering Pizza: The Art and Practice of Handmade Pizza, Focaccia, and Calzone – Another very popular book focused on homemade pizza, etc.
- Southern Biscuits