1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Welcome
4. Dedication
5. Preface
6. Part I : Childhood
   1. Little House in the Big Woods: Breakfast Sausage
   2. “Hansel and Gretel”: Gingerbread Cake with Blood Orange Syrup
   3. In the Night Kitchen: Scalded and Malted Milk Cake
   4. Nancy Drew: Double Chocolate Walnut Sundae
   5. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie: Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
   6. The Indian in the Cupboard: Grilled Roast Beef
   7. The Boxcar Children: Chocolate Pudding
   8. Pippi Longstocking: Buttermilk Pancakes
   9. Anne of Green Gables: Salted Chocolate Caramels
   10. Homer Price: Old-Fashioned Sour Cream Donuts
   11. The Witches: Mussel, Shrimp, and Cod Stew
   12. The Secret Garden: Currant Buns
   13. Charlotte’s Web: Pea and Bacon Soup
   14. Where the Red Fern Grows: Skillet Cornbread with Honey Butter
   15. Strega Nona: Black Pepper–Parmesan Pasta
   16. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”: Buckwheat Pancakes
7. Part II : Adolescence and College Years
   1. To Kill a Mockingbird: Biscuits with Molasses Butter
   2. Lord of the Flies: Porchetta di Testa
   3. The Catcher in the Rye: Malted Milk Ice Cream
   4. The Bell Jar: Crab-Stuffed Avocados
   5. Rebecca: Blood Orange Marmalade
   6. Les Misérables: Black Rye Bread
   7. Great Expectations: Pork Pie
   8. Moby-Dick: Clam Chowder
   9. Down and Out in Paris and London: Rib-Eye Steak
   10. Pride and Prejudice: White Garlic Soup
   11. The Silence of the Lambs: Crostini with Fava Bean and Chicken Liver Mousses
   12. Middlesex: Olive Oil Yogurt Cake
   13. Brideshead Revisited: Blinis with Caviar
   14. The Corrections: Chocolate Cupcakes with Peppermint Buttercream Frosting
   15. The Aeneid: Honey–Poppy Seed Cake
   16. Mrs. Dalloway: Chocolate Éclairs
   17. Anna Karenina: Oysters and Cucumber Mignonette
8. Part III : Adulthood
   1. The Bluest Eye: Concord Grape Sorbet
   2. A Confederacy of Dunces: Jelly Donuts
   3. The Dog Stars: Whole Roasted Trout
   4. The Hours: Birthday Cake
   5. “Goodbye to All That”: Grilled Peaches with Homemade Ricotta
   6. American Pastoral: Hot Cheese Sandwich
   7. Emma: Perfect Soft-Boiled Egg
   8. “The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether”: Goat Cheese Pumpkin Pie
   9. In Cold Blood: Cherry Pie
   10. The Little Friend: Peppermint Stick Ice Cream
   11. “Gimpel the Fool”: Challah
   12. In the Woods: Chocolate-Covered Digestive Biscuits
   13. Sometimes a Great Notion: Blackberry-Hazelnut Coffee Cake
   14. Gone Girl: Brown Butter CrÊpes
   15. The Odyssey: Red Wine–Rosemary Bread
   16. “The Best Girlfriend You Never Had”: Red Flannel Hash
   17. The Secret History: Wine-Braised Leg of Lamb with Wild Mushrooms
9. The Books in Voracious and the Recipes They Inspired
10. Acknowledgments
11. About the Author
12. Newsletters
13. Copyright