Best Baking Cookbooks 2017

Check out our list of our editor's favorite cookbooks of the year, which range from a fast pasta book to a spicy baking book. From photo-driven baking cookbooks to an illustrated manuscript unearthed from a personal collection, here are the best cookbooks of 2017. The top 45 books, all of which appeared on 4 or more best Cookbook lists, are ranked below with images, summaries, and links for more information or to purchase.

From an encyclopedic set of tomes about bread, to brilliant 5-ingredient recipes and mind-blowing desserts, these are the 2017 cookbooks we loved this year. Here are 10 of this years best, out now or coming in the next few weeks. And there are more on the way, including highly anticipated bread books due in November from Massimo Bottura and Nathan...

These are the six books that connected the most with me in 2017. 6. Smitten Kitchen Every Day.

Deb Perelman has the gift of voice: Reading her recipe introductions makes it seem like you're listening to a funny friend-of-a-friendsomeone you instantly like and want to befriend yourself.