1. The best book for getting started with woodfired ovens:
2. Anything by Peter Reinhart is usually excellent and this is his best. A coffee table type book sharing his years of knowledge and recipes.
3. Peter's pizza book. This book is half recipes/ techniques and half travel stories of his search for the perfect pizza.
4. A really good overview of artisan bakers and baking across America by Maggie Glezer.
5. A more advanced book by Joe Ortiz. Good section on sourdough.
6. Julia Child assembled some of the best bakers around for this all purpose book. Covers wedding cakes through pita bread. Beautiful photos.
7. Ed Levine offers an interesting review of the best pizzas and pizzerias in the world.
8. The Scicolones offer a gourmet/eclectic book on making pizzas based on their research done in Italy:
9. An early somewhat philosophical book by Peter Reinhart, worth the price of the book for the Struan Bread recipe which is my favorite multigrain bread.
10. Alton Brown has a revolutionary (and simple!) way to look at baking with this book. He organizes the entire world of baked goods down to just a few "methods" and helps the reader see the similarities in so many baked items
