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Anthony Bourdain Books in Order

23 books are credited to Anthony Bourdain, published between 1995 and 2025; 4 of them appeared after Anthony Bourdain's death in 2018. The first book is Bone in the Throat (1995) and the newest is The Anthony Bourdain Reader (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
23
Published
1995–2025
Confirmed
1 of 23 titles
Pages on record
3,446 in 15 of 23 books
Reading time
57–86 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,446 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 15 of 23 titles with a page count on record.

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Anthony Bourdain (June 25, 1956 – June 8, 2018) was an American celebrity chef, author and travel documentarian. A 1978 graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Bourdain spent several years as executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in Manhattan, and an essay in The New Yorker in the late 1990s launched the writing career. The catalogue opens with Bone in the Throat (1995) and Gone Bamboo (1997), then Kitchen Confidential (2000), A Cook's Tour (2001) and Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook (2004). The Anthony Bourdain Reader (2025) is the newest title, and Hungry Ghosts and Get Jiro Graphic Novels are the listed series. Cooking, restaurants and food share the subjects with mystery and detective fiction.

Beyond his books, Bourdain hosted a program on CNN centered on food.

How many Anthony Bourdain books are there?

Anthony Bourdain has 23 books, released between 1995 and 2025. 4 of them were published after Anthony Bourdain's death in 2018. They include 2 series and 16 titles listed outside any series.

Anthony Bourdain Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 23 Anthony Bourdain books in the order they were released, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.

  1. Cover of Bone in the Throat by Anthony Bourdain (1995)
  2. Cover of Gone Bamboo by Anthony Bourdain (1997)
  3. Cover of Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (2000)
  4. Cover of A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain (2001)
  5. Cover of Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical by Anthony Bourdain (2001)
  6. Cover of Bobby Gold by Anthony Bourdain (2002)
  7. Cover of The Bobby Gold Stories by Anthony Bourdain (2002)
  8. Cover of Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook by Anthony Bourdain (2004)
  9. Cover of Typhoid Mary by Anthony Bourdain (2005)
  10. Cover of The Nasty Bits by Anthony Bourdain (2006)
  11. Cover of No Reservations by Anthony Bourdain (2007)
  12. Cover of Medium Raw by Anthony Bourdain (2010)
  13. Cover of Appetites by Anthony Bourdain (2016)
  1. 1
    Bone in the Throat1995 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1995304
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  2. 2
    Gone Bamboo1997 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    1997304
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  3. 3
    Kitchen Confidential2000 · 312 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2000312
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  4. 4
    A Cook's Tour2001 · 274 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2001274
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  5. 5
    Typhoid Mary: An Urban Historical2001 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2001160
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  6. 6
    Bobby Gold2002 · 120 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2002120
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  7. 7
    The Bobby Gold Stories2002 · 176 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2002176
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  8. 8
    Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook2004 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2004304
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  9. 9
    Typhoid Mary2005 · 148 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005148
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  10. 10
    The Nasty Bits2006 · 304 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2006304
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  11. 11
    No Reservations2007 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2007288
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  12. 12
    Medium Raw2010 · confirmed 2/4
    2010–
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  13. 13
    Get Jiro!Get Jiro Graphic Novels #12012 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2012160
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  14. 14
    Blood and SushiGet Jiro Graphic Novels #22015 · 160 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2015160
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  15. 15
    Appetites2016 · 288 pages · confirmed 2/4
    2016288
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  16. 16
    Hungry Ghosts #1Hungry Ghosts #12018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  17. 17
    Hungry Ghosts #2Hungry Ghosts #22018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  18. 18
    Hungry Ghosts #3Hungry Ghosts #32018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  19. 19
    Hungry Ghosts #4Hungry Ghosts #42018 · confirmed 1/4
    2018–
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  20. 20
    Easy and Complete Keto Diet Meal for Beginners2019 · confirmed 1/4
    2019–
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  21. 21
    Anthony BourdainLast Interview #262019 · 144 pages · confirmed 3/4
    2019144
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  22. 22
    World Travel2021 · confirmed 1/4
    2021–
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  23. 23
    The Anthony Bourdain Reader2025 · confirmed 1/4
    2025–
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Anthony Bourdain books grouped by series

Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.

Hungry Ghosts in order

4 books
  1. 1. Hungry Ghosts #1
  2. 2. Hungry Ghosts #2
  3. 3. Hungry Ghosts #3
  4. 4. Hungry Ghosts #4

Get Jiro Graphic Novels in order

2 books
  1. 1. Get Jiro!
  2. 2. Blood and Sushi

Last Interview in order

1 book
  1. 26. Anthony Bourdain

Standalone books

16 books

16 Anthony Bourdain titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Anthony Bourdain books in order?

You only need to read Anthony Bourdain books in order within each series: the books listed here span 2 separate series, and each series has its own publication order.

Where to start with Anthony Bourdain

Start with Bone in the Throat (1995), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Anthony Bourdain book?

The Anthony Bourdain Reader (2025) is the newest Anthony Bourdain book released so far.

Is there a new Anthony Bourdain book coming?

No next Anthony Bourdain book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.

Anthony Bourdain at a glance

Died
Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, according to Wikidata.
After death
Books credited to Anthony Bourdain are still being published after Anthony Bourdain's death in 2018; the newest appeared in 2025.
Release pace
Anthony Bourdain books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,446 pages across the 15 of 23 books with a recorded length, a median of 274 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Anthony Bourdain books, 10 of 23, were published in the 2010s.

What the Anthony Bourdain books are about

16 of the 23 Anthony Bourdain books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: cooking is tagged on 6 of 16. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.