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!
Sweet books for the Sweet Tooth!!
Either sweet or savory, but if I had to choose, I’d pick savory. I absolutely love cookbooks! I love to curl up and plan out meals on a rainy afternoon :)
I want to say sweet, but I think I would get more use out of savory, so savory it is.
Oh my, savory…no sweet….no savory…ok my final answer is savory. You are so nice Bakerella!
100% Sweet! I want to win them all though=)
SWEET set! I love that it includes a Gluten Free book. My dad has celiac disease, I’d love to bake him something yummy!
The Sweet set looks awesome.
Sweet for me please !
S.W.E.E.T!!!! PLEASE
Sweets all the way….although that steak looks mighty tasty ; )
Wow — such beautiful books! I agree that books make the perfect gift for anyone. As far as choosing which set of books … definitely sweet! :) :) :)
Usually I’m a sweet person….but I have to go with savory with those choices! Wish I could have both :)
I’m a sweet kinda girl!!!!!
Oooh…I love something sweet….but I think I like the savory group better!!!
I’d have to say sweet! :-)
With the holidays coming up, definitely savory!
Sweet ! Had my eye on the cakepop book for a whilenow :)
Sweet all the way!!
Would absolutely love to win the Savory Set! Thank you for the wonderful lineup of cookbooks!
Savory!
I need to stop eating desserts for dinner! ;)
Sweet!! Both look amazing though
Sweets for me. I have a 100 savory books and only 25 sweet books. And I am a baker!!!
I would choose savory. Thanks for the change to win!
Oooh they all look fabulous, but I would have to choose the sweets! I have recently moved into a home of my own, and am just now starting a cookbook collection, so this would be wonderful!
definitly sweet for the holidays!
Savory looks fabulous!
The sweet cookbooks look awesome – but I have less savory cookbooks – so I’d have to go with Savory. Thanks for the fun chance!
I’m about to have a baby, my first pregnancy, and he will be adopted. In the days after the birth, you’ll be coming to sign books in Stillwater, near where I live, and I plan to go even if I won’t be able to afford to buy a book for you to sign. It would be amazing to meet you! But since I can’t afford the book, I’m most definitely going to try for this, and I’d love the Sweet set, I make more cookies than anyone in my house will eat!
Since I’m a sweets lover so the Sweet one would be the best! :))
Hugs! xo
sweet! biggest sweet tooth ever over here
Sweet, of course!
Sweets please! Thanks you for the giveaway, you are awesome!
Savory all the way!!!
Sweet for sure!!
Sweets!
you are so sweet to participate in this; books are definitely the best gifts ever! I’d chose the savory one just to expand my menus a littleb it; I’ve got you for the sweets in my life!
I can’t help myself…sweet.
Tough choice…but I would have to go with SWEET. But I’m loving the cheese book in Savory. Hmmmmm….
Sweet!! Thank you for the giveaways!
The Sweet one, for sure!!!
They both look great…..Sweet
sweet please :)
I’d go with savory!
Sweet all the way! :D
Can’t stop drooling over those frontpages!
Sweet, please!
What great books! Sweet please! :)
sweet ;))
Sweet! (but those savory ones look awesome, too!)
Sweet Sweet Sweet all the way!!!
Oh my everything looks so Delicious ,
Thanks so much!
Sweeeeeeetsssss!!! I’ve always wanted to start a collection of dessert books!!
I would LOVE the sweets!
Both sets look awesome! and very helpful!!! I’d probably have more fun with the Sweet set, but the Savory set would really help me out with my meal planning!
Sweet for sure. I love sweets heaps!
I would love to win the sweet set! I love sweets and enjoy baking. I have become interested in gluten free recipes so would love to win this book as well as add the new cake pop book to my collectn. My coworkers love these! Thanks for the chance to win this awesome set!
I have a ton of dessert cookbooks, so I would go with the Savory.
I would love the chance to win the sweet set but certainly wouldn’t say no to the savoury set. Please and thank you.
The set of sweet books, please.
With the holidays almost here, I could use a little inspiration from a cookbook teeming with sweets!!!
I would love the sweet books. I love to bake and I collect cookbooks but I don’t have any of these they would be great for my collection!
Either one would be amazing!
Sweet, of course :-)
I would looove the sweet!
Savory for me!!!! Thanks!
sweet,sweet,sweet please!
sweet please
Savory would be my pick. Thanks for the opportunity. :)
Sweet of courseee!!!
Oh, SWEET, SWEET, SWEET!!!
Even though my eyes nearly popped out of my head when I saw the True Blood book of treats, I ‘d still have to go with sweet!
Oooh! They all look so pretty and fun! I’d be happy to have Savoury or Sweet!
It would always be sweet. For sure.
definitely SWEET!!!
I love to bake!! :)
I would be thrilled with either group, but I’m going to pick sweets. I couldn’t help it.
The sweets, for sure!
Sweet please! It would be awesome to win and will feel better when I make all the goodies for all my friends and family!
Seeing as I just stuffed my face with way too many chocolate (okay, there is no such thing, but I do feel a bit nauseous) cupcakes I think I would rather go for the savory one right now! That being said, ALL of those books look fabulous and are going on my Christmas wish-list.
They all sound great, but I would have to choose sweet!
I would definitely love to have the Plenty book! I saw it the other day at a store and the recipes looked delicious, I’m not very creative when it comes to my vegetables… this cookbook would be great to have!
I would love to get the Sweet set for sure, due to the fact that I can’t cook to save my life :D
This is a major Sophie’s choice! I’ll have to go with the Sweets…
Most definitely Sweet! :)
I would really love to win either, but if I HAD to pick, I guess I would say savory!
What a great selection of books! I would definitely like to win the sweet group of books!
I would love the set of savory books!
And I think I’m going to go look through my own shelves now for something to donate! :)
Savory please! They all look so delicious!
Oh – I’d love the Sweet ones. Wow – what a fantastic giveaway! Thank you so much for the opportunity!
Sweet wins everytime! I can’t help it!!
While I love a good sweet – I really need to grow my savory side…Please and thank you
You are great Bakerella!!
Sweet for me :)
Tough choice but I would have to go with savory for this one.
sweets of course :)
I love me some savory! Thanks for the fun giveaway!!!
Thank you! I would love the savory set! I need more cookbooks, I have 5 hungry boys to feed!!
Awesome!!!!! Sweet or savory either would be wonderful addition.
Such a hard decision, but I’m going to have to go with savory, please!
I would definitely have to go with sweet! :)
You can never have too much sweet in your life!
I’d be down for both, but if you twist my arm I’d have to say SWEET! :)
I would most definitely pick the sweet!
Sweet! They look too good to pass up!
They all look amazing…thanks for the chance to win!!! Sweet for me please :) Thanks.
Hmmmm… lets think for a minute… SWEET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sweet, for sure!
Sweet!!! Thanks
I always go for the sweets, so I’m switching it up for the savory this time. Thank you Bakerella!
I would love either set, but if i had to choose.. probably the second savory set. I already have a lot of baking cook books and i need some with dinner recipes :) thanks bakerella!!
Guess I will have to go with SWEET!!!
Sweeeet!!
Sweet please. But I would not turn down the savory set either. I love books, and books about food are about as good as you can get.
Sweet for me! :)
I would love the sweets.
Normally I would choose the sweet set (aren’t they both sweet???) but seeing as we don’t make as many sweet things these days, I’d have to go with savory. But I sure would love the cakepop book. If nothing else they’re so stinkin’ fun to look at!
Savory, but the Sweet set looks great too!
I’m going to have to say savory–especially because of the “Eat Like a Man” book. I have four boys and am always looking for recipes that guys will like!
I will always and forever have a sweet tooth, so I’m going to say, Sweet!!! You’re awesome Bakerella!!!
Sweet, but really either group.
Ooo, savory. Take me out of my cooking comfort zone…and CHEESE!
SWEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!! :D
Definitely SWEET!
Oh my … Both look so, so good, but I’d choose the sweet group. I’d rather bake than cook usually (even though I love eating savory and saw a couple I’d keep, and a couple I’d give, etc.).
I know my girlfriend would want me to say sweet but I have to go with savory
would love the Sweet set!!!
Great books! I have so many sweet books, including both of your cake pops books, so I’ll have to go with savory. Happy Thanksgiving!
Sweets! (I had to flip a coin because I couldn’t decide)
Savory, please! I have 6 recipes in my rotation – so very boring & dull. I need help!!! Thanks!
savory
sweet for sure!:)xx
Savory!
Savory for me. I love baking, but need to up my skill on cooking. Hopefully these books can help!
sweet, please! thanks!
I pick sweet!!!
wow… defintely the sweets (the Tartine set, specifically!)
SWEET!!!! :9
Definitely the sweet ones! :) !!!
Savory! Savory! Savory! The savory side of my cookbook shelf is really lacking.
sweets!!!
I would love to have either! But will probably say the savory as I own a couple of the sweet ones already!
Sweet! Those look like some great books!
I really really want the first set, with the Cake Pops book included. This would be such a great gift to me from “Santa”
Oh, I’d love to win! Sweet, please :)
Sweet, definitely!
Great books! I normally go for sweet, but these savory cookbooks look fantastic. Savory all the way!
The aubergines did it for me – Savory!
Sweet!
Sweet please! Butttt I could be convinced that the savory ones are worth it too!
Sweet! Those look amazing!
Sweet, Sweet, SWEET!! They all look so good!! :D
savory please! Thanks for the heads up wrong page originally :) Happy Thanksgiving!
Ooooh, my boyfriend and I just moved in with eachother in to a beautyful home with a large kitchen. However my special cookbook shelve is still only holding two cookbooks.
I would love the savory set but would be equally as happy with the sweet set!
x Nikki
Sweet! But I really want both. :-)
Definitely the sweet set. I have to satisfy my sweet tooth!
Can I say both? :) Maybe savory if I had to choose!
It would be savory! (ideally half and half but savory probably wins).
It’s all about the sweet!
sweet!
sweet…no… savory…no…sweet…no…savory… GGGGaAAAAA!!!
*closes eyes*
*throws dart*
*tosses coin*
is this timed? *5 minutes later*
sweet…i think…
Savory! Hard to pick though :)
I’ll go with…savory!
I would like to win the Cookie Party book or the Keys to the Kitchen book.
Definitely Sweet!!! But I would love the savory too so put me in for both :)
My sweet tooth is telling me to pick sweet!
Savory! Those books look like they would be very helpful in menu planning for this upcoming holiday season.
Definitely savory! Yum!
Savory!
Sweet all the way! Hand held pies! Oh my!
Sweets all the way!!!
Savory, please!
I’d have to go with the sweet…
i’d probably use the savory books more!
wow all nice books. I prefer the sweet ones though
Excuse me while I wipe the drool away… savory!
Sweeeeeet!
I’d definitely go with the sweet set! You can’t go wrong with baked goods :)
Awesome! I would love to win the Sweet…please. :)
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SWEET all the way!
Savory, I like meat!
The sweet set!!!
Sweet! I just love baking sweets.
It would have to be sweet!
Hmmm ~ decisions, decisions! Even though I shouldn’t, I think I’ll go for the sweets, because I know there are some people who would love to eat some of these sweet desserts, ahem! Thank You!
Ooooh, savory please! I need that Cheesemonger’s book!
Savory! Thank you!
what a sweet treat!
Tough choice! But, in the end I think I’d give a slight edge to the savory. Must be a side effect of all the kids’ Halloween candy still laying around!
Oh… cookbooks are a passion! Savory, please?
Oh these books look awesome! Sweet, please. Thanks.
I am going to have to go with the sweet set!
As tempting as the Sweet books look, I’d go for savory.
I’d go for the sweet, because the cookie swap one looks like it would make for a fun mom’s night out. But savory looks pretty yummy as well.
it would have to be SWEET!
Sweet for me! I have a serious sweet tooth but my husband’s the savory type so either for me.
Gotta be Sweet! I did have to think long and hard about that choice but my sweet tooth always wins lol. What a fantastic selection of books, though it will be very difficult to gift them on after all, I’m a cook book collector just like my Mum.
Hat tip to the artist who did such a great job, gets me in the mood for giving books for Christmas for sure!
Sweet, for sure!!
sweet, sweet, sweet please……
definitely savory.
Oh dear! “Sweet” has sent my mouth a-drooling. Please, please, please can I have the “sweet” set <3
Savory
suh-weeeeet!
OF course the Sweet Set <3
Savory! They all look so great!
Savory. I have a mouth full of sweet teeth so going for something different!