My publisher, Chronicle Books launched a fun Give Books campaign yesterday. They are partnering with authors, artists and blogs to encourage people to give books for the holidays and I’m helping them spread the word. Books are a perfect gift don’t you think. There’s one for everyone. For every age, for every interest. They are personal and the right one can really show the recipient how much you care. They feel good to hold and they make you feel good to give.
I know because I’m giving away 10 books courtesy of Chronicle Books.
I stuck with all cookbooks and I tried to find a good mix for keeping or gift giving. It’s up to you.
Want to see which ones I picked from their website?
Good… let’s check out some sweet reads! I think these would all come in pretty handy for holiday baking.
Now since I’m an equal opportunity eater,
here’s another set of 10 books you might want more.
These are less sweet and much more savory.
Want a chance to win one of these groups of ten?
You choose which one.
- Just leave a comment on the blog and let me know which group of ten you’d like to win. Sweet or savory?
- The deadline to enter is
6:00 pm ET on Thursday, November 15, 2012SORRY, TIME’S UP! Winner announced below. - One winner will be chosen at random and announced sometime Thursday evening on this post.
Good luck guys!
P.S. Here’s a post on Chronicle’s blog if you’d like to try and win one of the other sets of ten books chosen by others.
And now through December 31, enjoy 30% off + free ground shipping on all holiday orders at ChronicleBooks.com! Just enter discount code GIVEBOOKS at checkout.
Give Books artwork created by the amazing Julia Rothman!
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We have a winner!
Yay Redheadwriter! I think I might have picked savory, too. Those covers all look amazing. Enjoy!
I would love the Sweet set of books!
Either one would be delightful! Thanks!!!
Savory! The Ottolenghi Book looks divine and inspired me to look up the website. I love Eat Like A Man. Even though I am a woman. There is nothing like a good steak or cut of meat with roasted veggies and arugula! MMMM! My kinda meal. The one thing I most love about your book introductions is it gives me the opportunity to visit the websites and peruse their recipes! HOT DAWG!
I also would select savory. These are both really great lists. Thank you!!
Savory! They all look like wonderful additions to the collection!
Sweet!
Savory!!! But it would be a lot more awesome with a cake pop book thrown in too!
Both groups look great! I going to go with Sweet this time around.
Sweet!!! Although savory looks good too…
Yay for books! I’d take the sweet set.
Hands down the sweet books, especially for the holidays!! :)
Sweet!!! :)
Savory would be more useful around here, although my sweet tooth is not happy with me for admitting it!
I love books and I love baking! Sweet please! :)
You’re making us choose?! No fair! They all look sooo amazing! :) But, alas, I will have to choose the sweets!
I would love to win the savory set. I especially love the book titled by Esquire “Eat like a Man”. Thanks.
You did a wonderful job picking out books. All the books are fantastic. I would love the savory collection. Thank you.
Such a tough choice…I think I’d have to go with sweet!
Love the sweet stuff
Sweet, of course! Although savory is tempting.
Savoury! As much as I like Sweet, savoury usually wins the battle :) Thanks for the giveaway!
Sweet!
Sweet and savory. If a book has both then that’s a equal pick. But if I have to pick just one, I’d probably pick sweet.
Sweet – thanks!!
This was a no-brainer….sweet :) Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win the savory set. I especially love the book titled “Eat like a Man”. Thanks.
Definitely the Sweet set!
Sweet for sure!! Although I may have to purchase some of those savory cookbooks, yum!!
Am I allowed to choose half and half? They all look so very fun and tasty!!
Sweet definitely, please! What a great collection of books!
SWEET!!! :0)
Sweet! This time of year I’m inspired to bake and make candies.
Although they all look delicious, I think I have to go for sweet!
I’d love to win the sweet set! But both sure sound amazing.
Hard to pick, but Savory please!!
I feel like such a pig saying I’d LOVE the sweet (first) books!
I would like the sweet reads books
Sweet!
Oh my goodness! I would LOVE the sweet ones but I probably need the savory ones…would be awesome to have either set for sure!
Oh, my goodness! What a feast for the eye, the mind, and the palate! The thought of the stack of luscious sweets books sitting on my shelf has me swooning on my couch! Pick me! Pick me! Pick me please, sweet Bakerella! :))))))))))))))))))))))))
Sweet please!!
I would love the savory set!
I’d go for the sweet set, because I just love everything sweet and they look so great!
Tough call – but I guess I’d go with Sweet.
I definitely have a sweet tooth! Would love to add these 10 sweet cookbooks as mine are all old and ratty. Thanks.
Michele
It was a hard decision, but I would love the Savory set.
WOW! They look so amazing! I wrote the list down so I can buy them…if I don’t win ;)\
SWEET!
I want to say sweet, but since I have so many sweet cookbook maybe I should say savory!!!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Savory because I have some of the sweet already! Cake Pops anyone?
All the books look scrumptious, but I’d love to have the sweet set! I heart baking/decorating books! :) Thanks!
I would love to win the Sweet Set! Thanks!!
Savory please!!!!
Beautiful books. Love the sweet ones.
Sweet for sure! they all look so yummy!
Tough choice…savory please!
They all look awesome! But my choice would be savory!! :-)
I would love to have the sweet collection. Some to keep and some to give…
Oh my! What great book recommendations! I could wipe out most of my Christmas list with your Sweet bundle!
It would have to be the sweet set so I can save my hips from more pounds by looking at the pictures in the books instead of having to taste my way through the bakery
the sweet ones are adorable! definitely those
Oh man, I would ADORE that savory set!
While most people have a sweet tooth, I have sweet teeth! Sweet for sure! :D
I’d definitely have to go Sweet on this one! :)
Oh, I am so bad…..sweet please.
Sweet set, please! : 0 )
I’ve always had a love for baking sweets and just recently picked it up again. I don’t have any baking books so….the sweet reads for me please.
Oh My My! How do I decide? They all look delish!!!! But, as most often . . the Sweet Tooth wins :)
OMGosh, what a tough choice…
I think I would have to choose sweet though!!!
Definitely sweet!
Sweet please!
Lol I choose both;
How can u choose one or the other?
Definitely the sweet!
SWEET! I love sweet cookbooks!!
Savory! I love the unique selection!
Sweet. Mmmmhmm!
Mmmmmmmm savory :)
All of these books look amazing! I would definitely pick the sweet set though :-)
Savory!
Loving those sweet books!!!! :)
Gotta go savory this time. My hubby would love the Man cookbook. He is an awesome chef!
Sweet….def! I love baking and follow your posts although I am not nearly as creative as you..lol These books would def. get good use!
Sweet, please! Thanks for the giveaway!!
Sweet of course! (I mean, wouldn’t most people who read Bakerella go for sweet??)
The Sweet set! (although I already have one book from it…give you one guess which one…haha)
Sweet! Thank you!!!
This is so hard! I have a lot of sweet cookbooks already, so I choose savory.
They all look good!! But I am a “savory” girl just a titch more than a “sweets”, but just a titch mind you! Fun give away!
Definitely savory!
I would choose the Sweet set!!
I can never pass up the sweets (but I wouldn’t pass on the savory either).
They both look wonderful, but I am a baker at heart. So I would most certainly go with Sweet!
Sweet! Mmmmmmm…
Mmmmmm Savory!
Tough decision! Savory!
Savory, yum!
Ohhh I’d love to win sweet!
Hi, both look great but sweet is my favourite!
Normally I’d say sweet but the savory set looks too tempting to pass up!
Sweet for me since I love to bake but don’t get to do it nearly enough!!!!
Im going with the Savory. While I love sweets, nothing brings me more joy than a great dinner recipe that my fiance raves about!
Sweet for me please!!!!!! Love it!!!
Savory – definitely! I’m much more of a cook than a baker and would enjoy finding some new recipes! Thanks for the giveaway!
Sweet of course!
So hard to pick but I think I’d have to go with savory!!
Sweet all the way!!!!
Savory, but both are looking awesomely delicious.
Sweet of course! It’s sugar I live for!!!
As cool as the Sweet set looks, I’d go with the Savory. The books on Pasta and Cheese look terrific.
I’ll take any….I LOVE receiving books. I have many of the sweet books already, so I’ll say savory.
The books look amazing!! I’m all about the sweets!!
Oh my …the word both keeps popping into my head…lol !
But I will have to say Savory…..fingers crossed xoxo
I need some new dinner ideas so I would go for savory.
Normally I would go for the sweet because that’s what I do best… but I think the list of savory books looks amazing!
Sweet, pretty please with sugar on top!
The Sweet set, please.
Thanks for the opportunity! Savory for me please.
I have a lot of Sweet books so I would love to try Savory! :-)
I love the Sweet set! All those books look amazing!
Savory!
They both look great but my choice is “sweet”.
I pick the SAVORY!!! I need more savory cookbooks in my collection!
I would have to choose the SWEET set for sure!! :)
Sweet!
Although this covers make me doubt!
Sweet please! :)
The sweet set!
Sweet! Sweet! Sweet!!
Sweet, No, Savory…No. Sweet. they both look fantastic!
I need the savory, because is what I need help with, but I did put some of the sweet titles on my Christmas list. They all look spectacular!
Savory Please!
Definitely the sweet set please.
Definitely sweet!!!
I love Sweets but I think this time I need to say savory! :)
Difficult decision!!……………but…………savory
Hi Bakerella, I would Love Love Love the Sweets Books. Thank you
Woooow!!!
I’d like sweet :)))
mmmm… this is a tough one…
I have to go with… oh I don’t know!
ok ok…
sweet!!!!
Wow, both of these collections are beautiful! I’d have to say the sweets would be my choice. Thanks!
Since you haven’t authored any savory books YET!, I would have to pick the sweet side for this contest. I have a celiac friend that would LOVE that gluten-free baking book!
Wow both are amazing! But i’ll have to go with savory :]
I’m a baking addict so definatly sweet.
I would definitely choose the sweet ones. I love cookbooks of all sorts but the sweet set spoke to me!
Would love the Sweet cookbooks… so fun!
It’s difficult to choose. There are books in each catagory I would like. Since I need to make a choice I will pick Savory.
Sweet!
Decisions, decisions…..this is hard, but I guess I’ll go with the Savory batch.”
Savory!!
I would love to win that sweet set!
Savory!! But both look equally drool worthy!
it’s hard to decide, but I choose sweet!!!
Definitely Sweet. I would want the “Desserts for a Serious Sweet Tooth” book.
I’m all about the “sweet” please!!!
Ooh, the sweet ones definitely.
I always struggle coming up with savory recipes so id like the savory set.
Aaahh…I can’t decide! Too many interesting books in each category! ….SAVORY! But I’m definitely looking up some of those sweet titles!
While I love the gluten free holiday cookbook, I’d have to go with the savory set.
I am a baker at heart, so sweet for me! Fingers super duper crossed!
Definitely SWEET!!! I would love the gluten-free book because my neice and sister-in-law have Celiac’s disease. I find it hard to discover yummy recipes for the holidays for them!
Sweet please!
I’m gonna go with…savory, only because I have quite a few sweet recipe books in my collection already.
That’s a hard call but I am thinking “SWEET” today!!
As good as the sweet books look…I choose SAVORY!
I must have the sweet collection!
Always sweets…
What a beautiful collection! I’d live the sweet set.
I would love to win the savoury set for sure! A number of the titles you picked are already on my wishlist!
Sweet please. My daughter wants Cake Pops book for Christmas and this will give me a head start!
As a future pastry chef, I can never have enough books on sweets!!
I have been collecting cookbooks since I was a little girl and the Sweet selections would be a perfect complement to my little library!
Thank you, Bakerella!
I think SWEET!
I will have to pick the savory pack….but boy, was it a tough decision!!
Who wants savory when sweet is available? (not me)
Savoury, please – and thanks for the chance, Bakerella! :-)
Savory dishes please!! I am going to have wonderful dreams about the t-bone on that cover
M
Savory, please!
I have to go with sweet!!!
Savory. As a diabetic, I could go into a diabetic coma just looking at all those wonderful sweet books. So, I’d best ask for the savory.
Both sets look amazing! But I would definitely have to go with the sweets. Wouldn’t mind the savory either set either but my sweet tooth (and children) says “pick sweet pick sweet” lol! We love you bakerella hehe :)
Definitely sweet, although my husband would prefer savory.
Savory, please!! :) Of course, the gluten-free baking book is always welcome, too….. Oh dear!! But let’s be practical, right? Savory for sure!
Sweet
Savory, I need to expand my repertoire.
I just love books and Sweets would be the one i would pick.
wow, very hard to choose and I keep changing my mind while typing. I am going to go Sweet.
Sweet! Sweet! Sweet!
Savory for sure! Both sets are wonderful.
Yum! Both sets look great it’s so hard to choose. I think I would have to go with the sweet set.
I would love to have the Sweet set!!
hmmmm, would be thrilled with either, but I guess, since I’m on a diet, I’ll go for savoury…no, sweet!
The grandkids hollered “get the sweet ones grandma” So absolutely have to have the sweet ones. I’ve got them baking now days so why not? hugs and thank you for this great idea!
The sweet set all the way!! :)
Sweet please! Love all of the selections.
Oh what a fabulous selection. Definitely the sweet for me! *fingers crossed*
Hands down, Savory please!!!
Sweet :)
I *SHOULD* say savory…but I’m going to say sweet!
Sweet!! :)
How do you choose between two perfect categories, and twenty beautiful looking books??? While my taste buds adore both sweet and savory, I’d choose the sweet group. Then there would be so many more options of sweet treats to make for all my SWEET friends and family! xo
Hmm, should prob go with the savory but gonna be bad and saw sweet! Thx Bakerella!!
Sweet for me!!!! Yum!!!
Sweet please. My Thanksgiving tradition is to have a Pie Party the Sunday after Thanksgiving. This year I’ll be making 16 pies- 13 different types. I could always use a few new ideas.