Giada De Laurentiis Books in Order

Giada De Laurentiis has written 19 books, published between 2005 and 2025. The first book is Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes (2005) and the newest is Super-Italian: More Than 110 Indulgent Recipes Using Italy's Healthiest Foods; A Cookbook (2025). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
19
Published
2005–2025
Pages on record
3,518 in 17 of 19 books
Reading time
59–88 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,518 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute, covering the 17 of 19 titles with a page count on record.

Photo of Giada De Laurentiis, author of the Recipe for Adventure series

Italian cooking dominates the subject tags for Giada De Laurentiis, whose catalogue begins with Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes (2005) and runs to Super-Italian (2025). Giada De Laurentiis, born Giada Pamela De Benedetti on August 22, 1970, is an Italian-American chef, entrepreneur, writer and television personality. Giada De Laurentiis hosted Giada at Home on Food Network, appears on NBC's Today as a contributor and guest co-host, and founded the catering company GDL Foods. Awards include a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Lifestyle Host and a Gracie Award. The listing also includes the Recipe for Adventure series, and its subjects extend to children's fiction, magic, and space and time.

How many Giada De Laurentiis books are there?

Giada De Laurentiis has 19 books, released between 2005 and 2025. 8 of them belong to the Recipe for Adventure series.

Giada De Laurentiis Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 19 Giada De Laurentiis books in the order they were published, 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. 1
    Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes2005 · 255 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2005255
  2. 2
    Giada's Family Dinners2006 · 254 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2006254
  3. 3
    Everyday Pasta2007 · confirmed 1/4
    2007
  4. 42008240
  5. 52010240
  6. 62012239
  7. 7
    Naples!Recipe for Adventure #12013 · 138 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013138
  8. 8
    Paris!Recipe for Adventure #22013 · 141 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013141
  9. 92013256
  10. 10
    Hong Kong!Recipe for Adventure #32014 · 141 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014141
  11. 11
    New Orleans!Recipe for Adventure #42014 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014144
  12. 12
    Rio de Janeiro!Recipe for Adventure #52015 · 148 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015148
  13. 13
    Hawaii!Recipe for Adventure #62015 · 151 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015151
  14. 14
    Miami!Recipe for Adventure #72015 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015160
  15. 152015311
  16. 16
    Philadelphia!Recipe for Adventure #82016 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016156
  17. 172018
  18. 182021272
  19. 192025272

Giada De Laurentiis series in order

The series linked below has its own reading-order page.

Giada De Laurentiis 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.

Standalone books

11 books

11 Giada De Laurentiis titles here are not listed as part of any series.

Do you have to read Giada De Laurentiis books in order?

You only need to read Giada De Laurentiis books in order within the Recipe for Adventure series, which holds 8 of the 19 Giada De Laurentiis books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.

Where to start with Giada De Laurentiis

Start with Naples! (2013), the first Recipe for Adventure book. The earliest catalogued title overall is Everyday Italian: 125 Simple and Delicious Recipes (2005).

What is the newest Giada De Laurentiis book?

Super-Italian: More Than 110 Indulgent Recipes Using Italy's Healthiest Foods; A Cookbook (2025) is the newest Giada De Laurentiis book released so far.

Is there a new Giada De Laurentiis book coming?

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

Giada De Laurentiis at a glance

Still publishing
Giada De Laurentiis published a book as recently as 2025.
Release pace
Giada De Laurentiis books have appeared about one a year on average.
Length
3,518 pages across the 17 of 19 books with a recorded length, a median of 239 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Giada De Laurentiis books, 13 of 19, were published in the 2010s.

What the Giada De Laurentiis books are about

18 of the 19 Giada De Laurentiis books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: brothers and sisters is tagged on 7 of 18. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.