We have had so many new members sign up since the Boston Globe article last week.  The number of cookbooks on EYB members' Bookshelves is now more than 10,000 and growing every day.  You will see a lot of new indexed books being added too as we have had hundreds of index requests in the last week.

There is a great article today about Eat Your Books in the Boston Globe Food Section.

We have just added our 800th indexed book to EYB. It was How to Roast a Lamb: New Greek Classic Cooking by Michael Psilakis which has been getting great reviews and appearing in some of the Best Cookbooks of 2009 lists.

In addition to their best of the year cookbook list, Eat Me Daily has produced a Best Cookbooks of the Decade list. I'm not sure that I agree with all their choices - too many restaurant chefs in my opinion. They are all indexed on EYB though, with the exception of The Big Fat Duck Cookbook (that $250 price tag is putting me off) and also no EYB member has requested that we index it (everyone else is probably put off by the price tag too).

Susie was featured on NPR yesterday talking about her selection of the best cookbooks of 2009 - you can hear her discussion with Lianne Hansen on Weekend Edition.

Another interesting piece on NPR recently was a discussion between Adam Gopnik of the New Yorker and Monica Bhide, author of Modern Spice, with Rebecca Roberts on Talk of the Nation. This is a fascinating analysis, prompted by Adam's piece in the New Yorker, "What's the Recipe? Our Hunger for Cookbooks" about why we buy, use and above all love our cookbooks.

It's that time of year when all the Best Cookbooks of the Year lists are popping up - ours is up on the Community page now. Our own Susie's list for NPR has been attracting lots of attention. Here are some other best of lists you might like to take a look at. It's interesting how little overlap there is between the lists - does this mean there were a lot of good cookbooks this year or that cookbook reviewers have very different tastes?:

The New York Times
Eat Me Daily
Publishers Weekly
Omnivore Books of San Francisco
Serious Eats
Epicurious.com
David Lebovitz
Cooking With Amy
Michael Ruhlman
Andrea Nguyen - best Asian cookbooks
Chicago Tribune
The Washington Post
LA Daily News
Dorie Greenspan - best baking books
San Francisco Chronicle
Boston Globe - another list from Susie
Amateur Gourmet
Good Bite
Tulsa World

And some best of 2009 lists from the UK:
The Times
The Guardian who also have a Best Food Books of the Decade list.
The Mail
The London Evening Standard
Financial Times

Let us know if you come across any other good lists - info@eatyourbooks.com