Anthony Bourdain Books In Order

Cookbooks In Publication Order

Anthony Bourdain’s “Les Halles” Cookbook (2004)
Appetites (2016)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

Bone in the Throat (1995)
Gone Bamboo (1997)
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (2000)
A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines (2001)
Bobby Gold (2002)
The Bobby Gold Stories (2002)
Typhoid Mary (2005)
The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones (2007)
No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach (2007)
Medium RawA Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook (2010)
Get Jiro! (2012)
Get Jiro: Blood and Sushi (2015)
Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts (2018)
World Travel: An Irreverent Guide (With: Laurie Woolever) (2021)

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Anthony Bourdain Books Overview

Anthony Bourdain’s “Les Halles” Cookbook

No one writes about food or cooking quite like Anthony Bourdain. In his books Kitchen Confidential and A Cook’s Tour, Bourdain captivated readers all over the world with his gritty, action packed tales of the kitchen. Now he brings his inimitable style and energy to Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook. It features over a hundred mouth watering recipes from lobster bisque to cassoulet, and from boeuf bourguignon to creme brulee, all from Anthony’s own restaurant, the Brasserie Les Halles in New York. Also including Anthony’s words of wisdom and general principles, this is guaranteed to be as much a good read as a guide to cooking up a storm in the kitchen.

Bone in the Throat

A wildly funny, irreverent tale of murder, mayhem, and the mob. When up and coming chef Tommy Pagana settles for a less than glamorous stint at his uncle’s restaurant in Manhattan’s Little Italy, he unwittingly finds himself a partner in big time crime. And when the mob decides to use the kitchen for a murder, nothing Tommy learned in cooking school has prepared him for what happens next. With the FBI on one side, and his eccentric wise guy superiors on the other, Tommy has to struggle to do right by his conscience, and to avoid getting killed in the meantime. In the vein of Prizzi’s Honor , Bone in the Throat is a thrilling Mafia caper laced with entertaining characters and wry humor. This first novel is a must have for fans of Anthony Bourdain’s nonfiction.

Gone Bamboo

Gone Bamboo pits Henry, a CIA trained assassin, and Frances, his hard nosed, hard bodied wife against two governments and a cross dressing mafioso. Henry and Frances have Gone Bamboo living an idyllic, retired life in the Caribbean but when Donnie, a powerful capo relocated by the Federal Witness Protection Program, inadvertently jeopardizes their plan, all hell breaks loose. Despite the fact that Henry once tried to kill Donnie, the two join forces against the transvestite mob boss looking to ace Donnie. But things aren’t going to be so easy…
Written in Anthony Bourdain’s signature style raucous, funny, a bit vicious, and always fun Gone Bamboo is a feast of murder, hitmen, and the hitwomen they love. Reminiscent of Dashiell Hammet’s Nick and Nora, Bourdain’s Henry and Frances are a tough talking, unlikely couple that will win you over if they don’t kill you first.

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild but true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine now with all new, never before published material

A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

The only thing ‘gonzo gastronome’ and internationally bestselling author Anthony Bourdain loves as much as cooking is traveling. Inspired by the question, ‘What would be the perfect meal?,’ Tony sets out on a quest for his culinary holy grail, and in the process turns the notion of ‘perfection’ inside out. From California to Cambodia, A Cooks’ Tour chronicles the unpredictable adventures of America’s boldest and bravest chef.

Bobby Gold

Meet Bobby Gold; by night, the security chief of a mobbed up New York City nightclub, by day, a reluctant bone breaker and enforcer for Eddie Fish his old college roommate, and best friend. Emerging from the ‘gladiator school’ environment of an upstate prison with an imposing physique and a reputation for skilled brutality, Bobby’s a lonely, guilt ridden child inside a hulking body. He views the grim work of coercion, assault and even murder as jobs to be done with a craftsman’s work ethic and with a minimum of force. Following on from his two superb novels, Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo, Anthony Bourdain has produced another stunning piece of crime fiction.

The Bobby Gold Stories

Bestselling author Tony Bourdain is back with a new novel, his first fiction since the groundbreaking success of Kitchen Confidential. Bobby Gold is a loveable criminal. After doing ten years in the clinker, he’s out and ready for work. With not even an attempt to play it straight, he’s back to breaking bones for tough guys. His turf: the club scene and restaurant racket. It’s not that he enjoys the job Bobby has real heart but he’s good at it and a guy has to make a living. Things change when he meets Nikki, the cook at a club most definitely not in his territory. Smitten, he can’t stay away. Bobby Gold had known trouble before, but with Nikki the saut bit*ch in his life, things take a turn for life or death. Inspired by Fitzgerald’s Pat Hobby stories, The Bobby Gold Stories is a gem of a novel featuring the best of Bourdain’s work. Fans will recognize the gangster riffs of Bone in the Throat, the antics of the sexy criminal couple of Gone Bamboo, and the brilliant restaurant scenes from Kitchen Confidential. Distilled into a fast and furious, pitch perfect story of food, sex, crimes and mayhem, The Bobby Gold Stories is sure to become a modern classic.

Typhoid Mary

From the best selling author of Kitchen Confidential comes this true, thrilling tale of pursuit through the kitchens of New York City at the turn of the century. By the late nineteenth century, it seemed that New York City had put an end to the outbreaks of typhoid fever that had so frequently decimated the city’s population. That is until 1904, when the disease broke out in a household in Oyster Bay, Long Island. Authorities suspected the family cook, Mary Mallon, of being a carrier. But before she could be tested, the woman, soon to be known as Typhoid Mary, had disappeared. Over the course of the next three years, Mary worked at several residences, spreading her pestilence as she went. In 1907, she was traced to a home on Park Avenue, and taken into custody. Institutionalized at Riverside Hospital for three years, she was released only when she promised never to work as a cook again. She promptly disappeared. For the next five years Mary worked in homes and institutions in and around New York, often under assumed names. In February 1915, a devastating outbreak of typhoid at the Sloane Hospital for Women was traced to her. She was finally apprehended and reinstitutionalized at Riverside Hospital, where she would remain for the rest of her life. Typhoid Mary is the story of her infamous life. Anthony Bourdain reveals the seedier side of the early 1900s, and writes with his renowned panache about life in the kitchen, uncovering the horrifying conditions that allowed the deadly spread of typhoid over a decade. Typhoid Mary is a true feast for history lovers and Bourdain lovers alike.

The Nasty Bits: Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones

In the multiweek New York Times bestseller The Nasty Bits, bestselling chef and No Reservations host Anthony Bourdain serves up a well seasoned hellbroth of candid, often outrageous stories from his worldwide misadventures. Whether surviving a lethal hot pot in Chengdu, splurging on New York’s priciest sushi, or singing the praises of Ecuadorian line cooks and Hell’s Kitchen dives, Bourdain is as provocative, engaging, and opinionated as ever. The Nasty Bits is an irresistible tasting menu of food writing at its outrageous best served up Bourdain style.

No Reservations: Around the World on an Empty Stomach

An illustrated, behind the scenes travel journal of Anthony Bourdain’s global adventures. More than just a companion to the hugely popular show, No Reservations is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far flung travels. The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never before seen photos and mementos with Bourdain’s outrageous commentary on what really happens when you give a bad boy chef an open ticket to the world. Want to know where to get good fatty crab in Rangoon? How to order your reindeer medium rare? How to tell a Frenchman that his baguette is invading your personal space? This is your book. For any Bourdain fan, this is an indispensable opportunity to hit the road with the man himself.

Medium RawA Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

An instant New York Times bestseller and the follow up to the mega hit Kitchen Confidential In the ten years since Anthony Bourdain’s classic Kitchen Confidential first alerted us to the idiosyncrasies and lurking perils of eating out, much has changed for the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restaurant business and for Anthony Bourdain. Medium Raw tracks Bourdain’s unexpected voyage from journeyman cook to globe traveling professional eater and drinker, and even to fatherhood, in a series of takes no prisoners confessions, rants, investigations, and interrogations of some of the most controversial figures in food. Beginning with a secret, highly illegal after hours gathering of powerful chefs that he compares to a mafia summit, Bourdain pulls back the curtain but never pulls his punches on the modern gastronomical revolution. Cutting right to the bone, Bourdain sets his sights on some of the biggest names in the foodie world, including David Chang, the young superstar chef; the revered Alice Waters; the Top Chef contestants; and many more. Medium Raw is the deliciously funny, shockingly delectable result, sure to delight philistines and gourmands alike.