The Best Smoker Cookbooks

Matty Matheson's Home Style Cookery proves that cooking for people you love stops feeling like a performance—it's just good food, made simple.

Rodney Scott learned barbecue before he learned to drive, and Rodney Scott's World of BBQ proves that 4 decades of pit mastery, family legacy, and unwavering craft translate into recipes—and a life story—that stay with you.

Let Sean Brock walk you through South, where fried chicken, grits, and biscuits taste exactly like home should.

Andy Husbands, Chris Hart, Mike Mills, and Amy Mills walk you through Pitmaster, revealing the smoke, char, and regional secrets that separate backyard cooks from true believers.

Where brisket smoke and carne asada flames converge, Arnie Segovia's ArnieTex serves up over 100 recipes that prove Texas and Mexico were always meant to share the same table.

Magnus Nilsson's The Nordic Cookbook gathers 700 authentic recipes collected across Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden—a comprehensive guide to gravlax and rose-hip soup, woodsmoke and preserved things, all photographed beautifully by the chef himself.

Edward Lee's Smoke and Pickles weaves Korean technique and Southern hospitality into 130+ recipes that smoke, pickle, ferment, and fry their way into your kitchen with equal parts warmth and flavor.

Fire isn't a medium but an ingredient you've been underusing, which is exactly what Aaron Franklin and Jordan Mackay prove throughout Franklin Smoke with strategies for live-fire grilling and smoking that work on any backyard setup.