Nigella Lawson Books in Order
Nigella Lawson has written 14 books, published between 1998 and 2021. The first book is How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (1998) and the newest is Cook, Eat, Repeat (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 14
- Published
- 1998–2021
- Pages on record
- 3,552 in 9 of 14 books
- Reading time
- 59–89 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 3,552 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 9 of 14 titles with a page count on record.
Nigella Lawson, born 6 January 1960, is an English food writer and television cook. After Oxford, Lawson became deputy literary editor of The Sunday Times in 1986 and later worked as a freelance journalist. How to Eat (1998), the first cookbook, sold 300,000 copies, and How to Be a Domestic Goddess won the British Book Award for Author of the Year. The Channel 4 series Nigella Bites began in 1999 and won Lawson a Guild of Food Writers Award. The catalogue lists 14 books through Cook, Eat, Repeat (2021), including Feast (2004) and Nigella Express (2007).
How many Nigella Lawson books are there?
Nigella Lawson has 14 books, released between 1998 and 2021.
Nigella Lawson Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 14 Nigella Lawson 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.
- 1How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food1998 · 544 pages · confirmed 1/419985441/4
- 2How to Be a Domestic Goddess: Baking and the Art of Comfort Cooking1998 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/419983841/4
- 3Nigella Bites2001 · confirmed 1/42001–1/4
- 4Forever Summer2002 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420022881/4
- 5Feast2004 · 480 pages · confirmed 1/420044801/4
- 6Nigella Express2007 · confirmed 1/42007–1/4
- 7Nigella Christmas2008 · 288 pages · confirmed 1/420082881/4
- 8Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home2010 · 522 pages · confirmed 1/420105221/4
- 9Nigella Kitchen2010 · 518 pages · confirmed 1/420105181/4
- 10Nigellissima: Easy Italian-Inspired Recipes2012 · confirmed 1/42012–1/4
- 11Simply Nigella2015 · 384 pages · confirmed 1/420153841/4
- 1220171442/4
- 13At My Table2017 · confirmed 1/42017–1/4
- 14Cook, Eat, Repeat2021 · confirmed 1/42021–1/4
Nigella Lawson 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.
Vintage Minis in order
1 book- 3. Eating
Standalone books
13 books13 Nigella Lawson titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Nigella Lawson books in order?
No. No source lists any of the 14 Nigella Lawson books here as part of a series. The numbered table above gives them by publication date.
Where to start with Nigella Lawson
Start with How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (1998), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Nigella Lawson book?
Cook, Eat, Repeat (2021) is the newest Nigella Lawson book released so far.
Is there a new Nigella Lawson book coming?
No next Nigella Lawson book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Nigella Lawson at a glance
- Paused
- No new Nigella Lawson title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Nigella Lawson books have appeared about one every 2 years on average.
- Length
- 3,552 pages across the 9 of 14 books with a recorded length, a median of 384 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Nigella Lawson books, 6 of 14, were published in the 2010s.
What the Nigella Lawson books are about
8 of the 14 Nigella Lawson 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 7 of 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.