The Best Pie Cookbooks

Baking confidence tastes better than any dessert ever could, which is exactly what Claire Saffitz delivers in Dessert Person.

Forget everything you think you know about pie dough―Erin Jeanne McDowell's The Book on Pie teaches you how to master flaky crusts, stunning decorations, and hundreds of recipes that prove pie is endlessly customizable.

Jamie Oliver's 5 Ingredients Mediterranean proves you don't need a sprawling shopping list to cook like you've been traveling the sun-soaked coasts.

Betül Tunç walks you through Turkuaz Kitchen, 85 doughs both traditional and invented, each one tasting like her snowy childhood in Erzurum and the home kitchen she's building now.

BAKE makes a case that your oven's been waiting for a baker this confident, and Paul Hollywood has the recipes to prove it.

Nearly 150 recipes so good people will assume you've been baking professionally, which is exactly what Bobbie Lloyd delivers in The Magnolia Bakery Handbook.

Start with brownies and end up confidently piping cream cheese puff pastry—that's the arc Sally McKenney maps out in Sally's Baking 101, her collection of 101 foolproof recipes that grows your skills one bake at a time.

The Sprinkles Baking Book by Candace Nelson opens her recipe vault with 100 desserts—fifty iconic cupcakes plus cakes, pies, cookies, and treats that prove one flavor-obsessed idea can sell out on day one and never stop.

Dorie Greenspan's Baking With Dorie pairs 150+ recipes—from browned butter apple pie to footlong cheese sticks—with the kind of clear instructions that make every technique feel effortless.