The Books You Loved

Which are the books that sold the best according to the Los Angeles Times Cookbook Hot List? We tallied the year’s lists, based on rankings sent to The Times by national cookbook and independent booksellers. The results follow in order of strongest showing.

A Baker’s Dozen

*1. “Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone” by Deborah Madison: This year’s heavyweight champion, it has been on the list every week since mid-January--47 weeks and still counting.

2. “The New Making of a Cook” by Madeleine Kamman (William Morrow, $40): Who says people don’t buy difficult books? This highly technical effort spent more than half the year on the Hot List.

3. “Marcella Cucina” by Marcella Hazan (HarperCollins, $35): No matter how many Hazan books people have, they always want more.

4. “Cookwise” by Shirley Corriher (William Morrow, $28.50): Something of a surprise, this food science book has been a steady, strong seller.

5. “Cooking with the Two Fat Ladies” by Jennifer Patterson and Clarissa Dickson Wright (Random House, $25): There’s quite an appetite for the Food Network’s most unglamorous pair.

6. “New Joy of Cooking” by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, $30): A carry-over from last year, this much-touted revision ruled the list in the first part of the year.

7. “Rao’s Cookbook” by Frank Pellegrino (Random House, $40): You can’t get into the restaurant, but you certainly can buy the book.

8. “Born to Grill” by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison (Harvard Common Press, $27.95): It was a good year for barbecue books, but this one sold the most consistently.

*9. “How to Cook Everything” by Mark Bittman and “Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home With a Four-Star Chef” by Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Bittman: Two big books, essentially from the same author, published at the same time and both are still going strong.

*11. “Emeril’s TV Dinners,” Emeril Lagasse, Marcelle Bienvenue, Felicia Willett and Brian Smale: This year’s biggest seller by the noisiest chef on TV.

12. “Elizabeth David Classics” (Biscuit Books, $14.98): Kind of like finding Proust on the bestseller list, isn’t it?

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Two to Grown On

*”The Pie and Pastry Bible,” Rose Levy Beranbaum, and “Soup: A Way of Life” by Barbara Kafka were published late this season and are selling so well they will probably both still be on this list next year.

*Run on list has not ended