Recs if you like Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History...

Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!

This list was a winner of the Q2 2026 Community Voting event - if you'd like to participate in the Quest, a link is pinned in the comments.

When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

Keep tracking of PB lore one TBR train book at a time. List of books that have unexpectedly + delightfully affected our PB experience. (PB pyramid scheme name approved by our queen of clownery @ayzrules + the book that led the scheme by our pink queen @crybabybea)

Pro tomato or anti tomato? Follow the PB Tomato War lore with this unofficial side quest. Start with The Spellshop (& read Fantasy's post @ 41%) to see the war's origins and pick your side. Next, get the facts with Ten Tomatoes That Changed The World (notbillnye / pro camp's manifesto). Hate tomatoes? Read I Will Never Not Ever Eat a Tomato, and discover their true evil with Dead Witch Walking (virus spreads via GMO tomato). Finish with the feel-good Fried Green Tomatoes. Which side will prevail?

microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

I'm the tomato lady now. Here's also some cool, history about other foods! Grab a snack and read! (shoutout @MadHoney for this idea)

These audiobooks do accents so badly they'll give you second-hand embarrassment. Please let me know what books I should add to this list.

Nonfiction books about food and what it means to us. Cultural connections to food, food justice, sharing food in community, etc.

Non-fiction that focuses on plants. Grow that brain🌻

Stirring the pot. Adding some salt. And monching into a beautiful red tomatt. (Books with a tomato theme, in some way, shape or form…and books that have an opinion on Pagebound’s Tomato War)

Niche nonfiction books that dads are still likely to enjoy that either 1) are not military history at all or 2) a niche area of a war that is not military history

these are books with numbers in their titles, starting at one (1) and going through infinity

taking suggestions!!!

do you remember The Wiggles song “Fruit Salad”? or maybe “I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas”? what about any song from Veggietales like “The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything”?

this list is freshly harvested and full of books with (specifically) fruits and veggies in the title or on the cover 🌶️🥭🍒🍋🫑🥕🍓🍑🥝🫐🍇🥒

some are more appropriate than others 😈

as always, please feel free to suggest any books I missed!

Was anyone else obsessed with Supermarket Sweep as a child? Just me? Anyway, born from that, here's a list of books that delve into supermarkets, grocery stores, and the produce and products on their shelves.

Microhistories and niche non-fiction to make you go… huh?

Suggestions welcome

A list of books that fit the prompts for the 2026 Polymath Training Challenge. (Egypt / Sleep, dreams / Astronomy and space exploration / Gastronomy and foods / Interior design, furniture / Chemistry / Mines and mining / Exploration and explorers / Art and nature /Agriculture /Economics) plus the "choose 1" prompts (Microbiome / Chocolate and coffee / Cultural history / Boardgames and role-playing games / Linguistics / Ethology / History of science / Cosmetics / Empathy). Open to suggestions!

inspired by and to assist with the Food Pyramid prompt for version 3.0 of the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do, pls find on this list books with different kinds of food on the cover that fit into the food pyramid.

From spice routes to soup pots, this list explores how a single ingredient can shape empires, economies, and everyday meals.

Books that delve deeper into interesting species, ecosystems and above all food.