Recipe for Adventure Books in Order

Recipe for Adventure by Giada De Laurentiis contains 8 books, published between 2013 and 2016. The first book is Naples! (2013) and the newest is Philadelphia! (2016). Publication order is the reading order below.

Books
8
Published
2013–2016
Total pages
1,179 across 8 books
Reading time
20–29 hours

Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,179 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200300 words a minute.

Recipe for Adventure is a children's fiction series by Giada De Laurentiis, and every title names a city. Naples! and Paris! appeared in 2013, Hong Kong! and New Orleans! in 2014, Rio de Janeiro!, Hawaii! and Miami! in 2015, and Philadelphia! in 2016. Magic, space and time, food, cooking, Italian and French cooking, brothers and sisters and great-aunts run through the recorded subjects. All eight books carry page counts, at a median of 146.

How many Recipe for Adventure books are there?

Recipe for Adventure has 8 books, released between 2013 and 2016.

Recipe for Adventure Books in Publication Order

The table lists all 8 Recipe for Adventure 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
    Naples!2013 · 138 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013138
  2. 2
    Paris!2013 · 141 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2013141
  3. 3
    Hong Kong!2014 · 141 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014141
  4. 4
    New Orleans!2014 · 144 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2014144
  5. 5
    Rio de Janeiro!2015 · 148 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015148
  6. 6
    Hawaii!2015 · 151 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015151
  7. 7
    Miami!2015 · 160 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2015160
  8. 8
    Philadelphia!2016 · 156 pages · confirmed 1/4
    2016156

Is there a chronological order for Recipe for Adventure?

No separate chronological order is on record for Recipe for Adventure, because none of the book listings this catalogue draws on publishes one; the publication order above is the only order given.

Do you have to read Recipe for Adventure books in order?

You should read the Recipe for Adventure books in publication order, the order of the numbered table above. The catalogue does not record whether each Recipe for Adventure book also stands alone.

Where to start with Recipe for Adventure

Start with Naples! (2013), the earliest published title.

What is the newest Recipe for Adventure book?

Philadelphia! (2016) is the newest Recipe for Adventure book released so far.

Is there a new Recipe for Adventure book coming?

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

Recipe for Adventure at a glance

No recent titles
The newest Recipe for Adventure title on record dates from 2016, 10 years ago. No later title is catalogued.
Release pace
Recipe for Adventure books have appeared more than one a year on average.
Length
1,179 pages across all 8 books with a recorded length, a median of 146 pages each.
Busiest decade
Most Recipe for Adventure books, 8 of 8, were published in the 2010s.

What the Recipe for Adventure books are about

All 8 Recipe for Adventure 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 8. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.

More books by Giada De Laurentiis

The author page linked below lists every book in publication order.