No One Can Stop ‘The Whole30′ and ‘Thug Kitchen’: Amazon’s Top Cookbooks for August
We know, we know — you’ve been hearing A LOT about Thug Kitchen and The Whole30. Both titles, which have jockeyed between the first and second place slots on Amazon’s cookbook sales rankings for months now, continued the dance in August. (The Whole30 came out on top this go around.) In third place is Inspiralized, Ali Maffucci’s ode to vegetable-based noodles.
As for the rest of this month’s best-sellers? Amazon books editor Seira Wilson notes one interesting trend: “What’s new is that the August best-seller list has the distinction of hosting three books that came out of self-publishing success stories,” she told Yahoo Food. “Two of the three are by the authors of The Trim Healthy Mama phenomenon, who are no longer self-publishing and are now snapping up prime spots in the middle of the August top 10, despite mid-September release dates.”
The third book, Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day, also has a notable backstory: “[It] came to the attention of a major publisher after its success as a Kickstarter campaign.” It was also Yahoo Food’s Cookbook of the Week earlier this month. Let that be a lesson to you, would-be cookbook authors.
Check out the rest of August’s best-selling cookbooks on Amazon below:
1. The Whole30: The 30-Day Guide to Total Health and Food Freedom by Melissa Hartwig and Dallas Hartwig
2. Thug Kitchen: The Official Cookbook: Eat Like You Give a F*ck by Thug Kitchen
3. Inspiralized: Turn Vegetables into Healthy, Creative, Satisfying Meals by Ali Maffucci
4. Trim Healthy Mama Cookbook: Eat Up and Slim Down with More Than 350 Healthy Recipes by Pearl Barrett and Serene Allison
5. Trim Healthy Mama Plan: The Easy-Does-It Approach to Vibrant Health and a Slim Waistline by Pearl Barrett and Serene Allison
6. Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day by Leanne Brown
7. Franklin Barbecue: A Meat-Smoking Manifesto by Aaron Franklin
8. The Skinnytaste Cookbook: Light on Calories, Big on Flavor by Gina Homolka
9. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime: Comfort Classics, Freezer Food, 16-Minute Meals, and Other Delicious Ways to Solve Supper! by Ree Drummond
10. Against All Grain: Delectable Paleo Recipes to Eat Well & Feel Great by Danielle Walker
Click here for Amazon’s hour-by-hour best-seller list.
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