Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006), The Last Fish Tale: The Fate of the Atlantic and Survival in Gloucester, America's Oldest Fishing Port and Most Original Town (2008), The Food of a Younger Land (2009), The Eastern Stars: How Baseball Changed the Dominican Town of San Pedro de Macoris (2010), World Without Fish (2011), this work was chosen by many school districts to be used in their curriculum as part of EL education, including Wake County Public School System. What?: Are These the 20 Most Important Questions in Human History—Or Is This a Game of 20 Questions? (2011), Hank Greenberg: The Hero Who Didn't Want to Be One (2011), Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man (2012), Ready for a Brand New Beat: How "Dancing in the Street" Became the Anthem for a Changing America (2013), International Night: A Father and Daughter Cook Their Way Around the World with Talia Kurlansky (2014), Paper: Paging Through History (2016), Havana: A Subtropical Delirium (2017), Milk!: A 10,000-Year Food Fracas (2018), Bugless: Why Ladybugs, Butterflies, Fireflies, and Bees are Disappearing (2019), Salmon and the Earth: The History of a Common Fate (2020), The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing (2021), The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (2022), Fiction The White Man in the Tree, and Other Stories (2000), Boogaloo on 2nd Avenue: A Novel of Pastry, Guilt, and Music (2005), Edible Stories: A Novel in Sixteen Parts (2010), City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife (2015), Children's books The Cod's Tale, illustrated by S. D. Schindler (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2001), The Girl Who Swam to Euskadi (Reno, NV: Center for Basque Studies, 2005), The Story of Salt, illus. S. D. Schindler (Putnam, 2006), Battle Fatigue (Walker Books & Co., 2011), , young-adult historical novel, Frozen in Time: Clarence Birdseye's Outrageous Idea About Frozen Food (2014), , 165 pp. As editor Choice Cuts: A Savory Selection of Food Writing From Around the World and Throughout History (2002), As translator The Belly of Paris by Émile Zola, Mark Kurlansky as translator. The Modern Library, 2009. Awards 1998: James A. Beard Award for excellence in food writing 2006: Bon Appétit Food Writer of the Year 2007: Nonfiction winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Nonviolence: Twenty-five Lessons From the History of a Dangerous Idea (2006). 2007: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Butler University 2011: Gold