 | Smoke & Spice: Cooking with Smoke, the Real Way to Barbecue by Cheryl Alters Jamison
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.00 A very good introduction to barbecue cooking where the key is low temperature and long times, hence "low and slow" cooking. Ribs, brisket, pulled pork are all covered here.
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 | Peace, Love, & Barbecue: Recipes, Secrets, Tall Tales, and Outright Lies from the Legends of Barbecue by Mike Mills
Buy used from: $15.93 Mike Mills takes you on a BBQ journey around the country. He gets and gives good advice from many famous BBQ names.
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 | Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country by Eric Lolis Elie
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $0.34 Elie describes the world of barbecue as he takes a tour of the BBQ belt. Not many recipes, but a very good historical context of BBQ is given. Photography by Frank Stewart is wonderful.
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 | Barbecue America: A Pilgrimage in Search of America's Best Barbecue by Rick Browne
Buy used from: $6.45 Many recipes and tons of pictures as Rick Browne tours the US in search of the best barbecue. Book comes with sauce stains already on the pages, so you don't feel so bad when you add your own.
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 | Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook: Recipes and Recollections from the Pit Bosses by Robb Walsh
Buy used from: $12.25 Many good recipes with stories and pictures to document famous and not so famous Texas BBQ pit bosses.
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 | The Barbecue! Bible 10th Anniversary Edition by Steven Raichlen
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $12.95 This book by Steven Raichlen is more about grilling and less about BBQ, but some recipes touch on "low and slow" cooking. Covers all the major ethnic groups of the world and how they cook with open fire or coals.
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 | Barbecue! Bible : Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades, Bastes, Butters, and Glazes by Steven Raichlen
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $5.96 Raichlen spans the world with rubs, sauces and marinades from ethnic groups around the world. Chinese, African, Korean, Middle Eastern, North/South American, you name it, it's probably covered.
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 | Where There's Smoke, There's Flavor : Real Barbecue--The Tastier Alternative to Grilling by Richard Langer
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.82 A quirky little book that follows the trail Richard Langer takes from knowing nothing about bbq to cooking in an open pit in his front yard. A fun read, but many of the recipes are not real bbq.
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 | Sublime Smoke: Bold New Flavors Inspired by the Old Art of Barbecue by Cheryl Jamison
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $1.91 Another entry from Jamison. This one is more of an upscale look at BBQ and grilling, if that is even possible. I haven't made many of the recipes in this one, but it is interesting to expand your boundaries of what you can grill.
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 | Paul Kirk's Championship Barbecue Sauces: 175 Make-Your-Own Sauces, Marinades, Dry Rubs, Wet Rubs, Mops, and Salsas by Paul Kirk
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $5.99 If you want to create your own sauce from scratch, Paul Kirk will help you balance the flavor palette with this book. Step by step process given to make a unique sauce to call your own.
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 | Bruce Aidells's Complete Sausage Book : Recipes from America's Premium Sausage Maker by Bruce Aidells
Buy new: $18.76 / Used from: $11.75 No BBQ session is complete without snacks to feed the cook while the brisket spends 18 hours at 250F. Bruce Aidells recipes for sausages from around the world will make your mouth water. If you don't feel like making your own, there are also delicious recipes that use sausage as an ingredient. Step-by-step description of the home sausage making process makes it easy for anyone.
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