Los Angeles Times Cookbook Hot List

1. “The Cake Mix Doctor” by Anne Byrn (Workman, $14.95). How to turn a box cake into something special. Last week: 3 Weeks on list: 41

2. “The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook” (Clarkson Potter, $35). More than 1,000 recipes collected from the magazine. Last week: 1 Weeks on list: 8

3. “Julia’s Kitchen Wisdom” by Julia Child (Knopf, $19.95). Distilling 50 years of great cookbooks. Last week: 5 Weeks on list: 3

4. “Kitchen Confidential” by Anthony Bourdain (Bloomsbury Publishing, $24.95). Life in the culinary trenches. Last week: 2 Weeks on list: 28

5. “The New Joy of Cooking” by Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker (Scribner, $35). The updated version of the cooking classic. Last week: 4 Weeks on list: 39

6. “How To Cook Everything” by Mark Bittman (MacMillan, $25). A fresh approach to the cooking encyclopedia, with more than 1,500 recipes. Last week: 6/ Weeks on list: 104

7. “Mexico One Plate at a Time” by Rick Bayless (Scribner, $35). The companion piece to the master instructor’s PBS series. Last week: 7 Weeks on list: 7

8. “Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home” by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin (Alfred Knopf, $40). A spirited kitchen conversation between two great cooks. Last week: 8 Weeks on list: 52

9.”The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook” by Ina Garten (Clarkson Potter, $32.50). Recipes from the specialty food store of the same name in the Hamptons. Last week: 10 Weeks on list: 58

10. “Think Like a Chef” by Tom Colicchio (Clarkson Potter, $37.50) Cooking classes from a top New York chef. Last week: -- Weeks on list: 1

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Rankings are based on a Times poll of national and independent cookbook sellers.