I love reading blogs about food, healthy living and weight loss. A few of my favorite bloggers have turned their stories into books. This reading list houses all of the bloggers turned authors.
Books Written By Bloggers
Here’s a quick list of books written by bloggers. I’ve broken it down into categories so you can view by type of book. You can see more detail for each below.
Healthy Living & Weight Loss Blogger Books
Carrots ‘N’ Cake: Healthy Living One Carrot and Cupcake at a Time
Blogger: Tina Haupert from Carrots N’ Cake
Tina’s book is all about eating your carrots… and savoring your cupcake, too. She translates her story of dropping extra pounds and finding balanced eating habits into a book that has easy-to-follow fitness routines, food tips, and her most popular feature: cookie Friday.
The Amazing Adventures of DietGirl
Blogger: Shauna Reid from DietGirl
Shauna went from an amazing 351 pounds to becoming a successful blogger and super hero. She lost 175 pounds, traveled the world, and became half the woman she once was and more. Her book details her travels and romance and triumph in defeating past demons. She conquered her cravings and bad habits and shares how she did it to inspire the rest of us.
Half-Assed: A Weight Loss Memoir
Blogger: Jennette Fulda from Pasta Queen
Jennette Fulda decided it was time to lose some weight after surgery when her weight reached 372 pounds. Her book Half-Assed is incredibly funny, captivating, and honest. It’s a story of trial and error and persistence to change her life that will inspire you and keep you reading.
Food Blogger Books
Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously
Blogger: Julie Powell
Julie & Julia is the story of Julie Powell’s attempt to revitalize her marriage, restore her ambition, and save her soul by cooking all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume I, in a period of 365 days.
The movie was adorable and the book is too. It’s original, warm, and inspiring to see someone change their life through food.
The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl
Blogger: Ree Drummond from Pioneer Woman
Blogger-turned-author Ree Drummond shares her life on the ranch through her kitchen. She walks you through delicious dishes that are popular in her home like guacamole, chili, dips, and more. If you need to satisfy some ranchers, or just a hungry group, this cookbook has great ideas for chicken fried stea, meat loaf, and ribeye steak.
Personal Development
Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better
Bloggers: Adam Pash, Gina Trapani from Lifehacker
Lifehackers redefine personal productivity with creative and clever methods for making life easier and more enjoyable. This new edition of a perennial bestseller boasts new and exciting tips, tricks, and methods that strike a perfect balance between current technology and common sense solutions for getting things done. Exploring the many ways technology has changed since the previous edition, this new edition has been updated to reflect the latest and greatest in technological and personal productivity.
The new “hacks” run the gamut of working with the latest Windows and Mac operating systems for both Windows and Apple, getting more done with smartphones and their operating systems, and dealing with the evolution of the web. Even the most tried-and-true hacks have been updated to reflect the contemporary tech world and the tools it provides us.
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier by helping us work more efficiently. Lifehacker: The Guide to Working Smarter, Faster, and Better, Third Edition is your guide to making that happen!
The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in Life
Blogger: Leo Babauta
With the countless distractions that come from every corner of a modern life, it’s amazing that we?re ever able to accomplish anything. The Power of Less demonstrates how to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary ? freeing you from everyday clutter and allowing you to focus on accomplishing the goals that can change your life for the better.
By setting limits for yourself and making the most of the resources you already have, you?ll finally be able work less, work smarter, and focus on living the life that you deserve.
Personal Finance
10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget
Blogger: Various authors from Wisebread
Filled with savvy tips on how to live, eat, shop, and have fun on a small budget, 10,001 Ways to Live Large on a Small Budget is a compilation of the juiciest tips from the #1 personal finance blog WiseBread.com, including:
- 9 Ways to See the World For Free
- 12 Ways to Live Rent or Mortgage Free
- 6 Steps to Eliminating Your Debt Painlessly
- 7 Ways to Score Free Food
- Bulk Buying 101
- 10 Killer Ways to Feel Like a Million Bucks
Your Money: The Missing Manual
Blogger: J.D. Roth from Get Rich Slowly
Keeping your financial house in order is more important than ever. But how do you deal with expenses, debt, taxes, and retirement without getting overwhelmed? This book points the way. It’s filled with the kind of practical guidance and sound insights that makes J.D. Roth’s GetRichSlowly.org a critically acclaimed source of personal-finance advice.
You won’t find any get-rich-quick schemes here, just sensible advice for getting the most from your money. Even if you have perfect credit and no debt, you’ll learn ways to make your rosy financial situation even better.
Suddenly Frugal: How to Live Happier and Healthier for Less
Blogger: Leah Ingram from Suddenly Frugal
Many people know one or two things they can do to save money, like cutting back on vacations and meals out, but beyond that, they’re stumped. When they look at their current lifestyle, they have no idea where they can trim the fat without sacrificing their quality of life.
That’s exactly what this guide will do. It will help you identify small, painless changes you can make to your daily habits that can add up to big savings–while bringing you closer as a family. By grouping these money-saving tips into a room of the house or errand on a to-do list, you can immediately put your suddenly frugal plan into action–and instantly begin saving money.
By pinpointing the dollar amount associated with each cost-saving step, financial whiz and mom Leah Ingram will inspire you to embrace–and enjoy–your new frugality.