Whether you are looking for a new read for yourself, or a gift to share with a friend, colleague or family member, book lists can be helpful inspiration. We recently asked our Registered Dietitians what they are reading. Here are their recommendations separated into three categories by topic.
Food & Nutrition
- The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
- The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out by Robynne Chutkan, MD
- The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss by Jason Fung, MD
- Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver, and Lily Hopp Kingsolver
- Body Love: Live in Balance, Weigh What You Want, and Free Yourself from Food Drama Forever by Kelly LeVeque
- The Inside Tract: Your Good Gut Guide to Great Digestive Health by Gerard E. Mullin, MD and Kathie Madonna Swift, MS, RD, LDN
- Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein
- Plant-Powered for Life: 52 Simple Steps and 125 Delicious Recipes to Get You Started and Make It a Habit by Sharon Palmer, RDN
- Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan
- Breaking Free from Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth
- Born to Eat: Whole, Healthy Foods from Baby’s First Bite by Leslie Schilling, MA, RDN and Wendy Jo Peterson, MS, RDN
- Body Kindness: Transform Your Health from the Inside Out—and Never Say Diet Again by Rebecca Scritchfield, RDN
- The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats by Daniel Stone
- Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN, and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN
Cookbooks
- My New Roots: Inspired Plant-Based Recipes for Every Season by Sarah Britton
- Everyday Dorie: The Way I Cook by Dorie Greenspan
- The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt
- The Allergen-Free Baker’s Handbook by Cybele Pascal
- Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking: 101 Entirely Plant-based, Mostly Gluten-Free, Easy and Delicious Recipes by Dana Shultz
- Hot for Food Vegan Comfort Classics: 101 Recipes to Feed Your Face by Lauren Toyota
- The First Mess Cookbook: Vibrant Plant-Based Recipes to Eat Well Through the Seasons by Laura Wright
- First Watch Cookbook
Overall Well-Being
- Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight by Linda Bacon, PhD, Lucy Aphramor, PhD, RD
- The Immune System Recovery Plan: A Doctor’s 4-Step Program to Treat Autoimmune Disease by Susan Blum, MD, MPH
- The End of Alzheimer’s: The First Program to Prevent and Reverse Cognitive Decline by Dale Bredesen, MD
- Untamed by Glennon Doyle
- Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression by James S. Gordon
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
- All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Keeble Wilkinson
- How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
- The Mind-Gut Connection: How the Astonishing Dialogue Taking Place in Our Bodies Impacts Health, Weight, and Mood by Emeran Mayer
- Take Back Your Life!: Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized by Sally McGhee
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel H. Pink
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
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