Explore the Bob’s Burgers Bookshelf with These 6 Book-Character Pairings

September 22 2020
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The Belchers are one of the funniest families on TV, and Bob’s Burgers has followed their insane but lovable adventures for ten seasons now. Long-suffering chef Bob, energetic and optimist Linda, awkward lovesick teen Tina, creative and crazy Gene, and terrifying chaotic gremlin Louise really grow on you. So, in honor of the start of their eleventh season on the air, here’s a look at what the cast of Bob’s Burgers would likely have on their bookshelves.

This post was originally published on GetLiterary.com.

Let Them Eat Pancakes
by Craig Carlson

For Bob

A chef going against the grain? Check. Opening one’s first business and utilizing “exotic” ingredients? Check. Food puns? Big check. Bob and Craig Carlson have a lot in common, which is why Bob would absolutely devour this memoir. Carlson had a dream: opening the first American diner in Paris. Convincing Parisians to enjoy typical American breakfast foods was hard enough, let alone getting French banks to give him the loans necessary to open the diner in the first place. Carlson’s sweet vignettes about adjusting to life in France, hunting down ingredients, and dealing with the various customers who pass through his door would likely resonate with Bob, struggling to keep his own restaurant relevant and afloat. Definitely the perfect literary treat for a struggling chef looking to find some laughter and some hope.

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Let Them Eat Pancakes
Craig Carlson

A second helping of tales on the joys and challenges of working, eating, and loving in France from the New York Times bestselling author of Pancakes in Paris.

Craig Carlson set out to do the impossible: open the first American diner in Paris. Despite never having owned his own business before—let alone a restaurant, the riskiest business of all—Craig chose to open his diner in a foreign country, with a foreign language that also happens to be the culinary capital of the world. While facing enormous obstacles, whether its finding cooks who can navigate the impossibly petite kitchen (and create delicious roast Turkey for their Thanksgiving Special to boot), finding “exotic” ingredients like bacon, breakfast sausage, and bagels, and dealing with constant strikes, demonstrations, and Kafkaesque French bureaucracy, Craig and his diner, Breakfast in America, went on to be a great success—especially with the French.

By turns hilarious and provocative, Craig takes us hunting for snails with his French mother-in-law and invites us to share the table when he treats his elegant nonagrian neighbor to her first-ever cheeseburger. We encounter a customer at his diner who, as a self-proclaimed anarchist, tries to stiff his bill, saying it’s his right to “dine and dash.” We navigate Draconian labor laws where bad employees can’t be fired (even for theft) and battle antiquated French bureaucracy dating back to Napoleon.

When Craig finds love, he and his debonair French cheri find themselves battling the most unlikely of foes—the notorious Pigeon Man—for their sanity, never mind peace and romance, in their little corner of Paris. For all those who love stories of adventure, delicious food, and over-coming the odds, Let Them Eat Pancakes will satisfy your appetite and leave you wanting even more.

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The Winemaker's Wife
by Kristin Harmel

For Linda

Linda’s flair for the dramatic and taste for the finer things in life would attract her to this historical romance. Inès and Céline are two women tied together by the French champagne house Maison Chauveau, with Inès married to its owner and Céline, who is Jewish, married to the head winemaker. On the brink of World War II, with the Germans on their way to invade France, the two women face impossible choices that will seal their fates in ways they never could have imagined. Filled with romance, drama, and intrigue too good to spoil, The Winemaker's Wife is a tale of regret and family secrets that would enthrall Linda and likely lead her to try to get her sister or her friend Gretchen to read it so she could have someone to discuss this juicy, thrilling plot with.

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The Winemaker's Wife
Kristin Harmel

The author of the “engrossing” (People) international bestseller The Room on Rue Amélie returns with a moving story set amid the champagne vineyards of France during the darkest days of World War II, perfect for fans of Heather Morris’s The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

Champagne, 1940: Inès has just married Michel, the owner of storied champagne house Maison Chauveau, when the Germans invade. As the danger mounts, Michel turns his back on his marriage to begin hiding munitions for the Résistance. Inès fears they’ll be exposed, but for Céline, the French-Jewish wife of Chauveau’s chef de cave, the risk is even greater—rumors abound of Jews being shipped east to an unspeakable fate.

When Céline recklessly follows her heart in one desperate bid for happiness, and Inès makes a dangerous mistake with a Nazi collaborator, they risk the lives of those they love—and the vineyard that ties them together.

New York, 2019: Recently divorced, Liv Kent is at rock bottom when her feisty, eccentric French grandmother shows up unannounced, insisting on a trip to France. But the older woman has an ulterior motive—and a tragic, decades-old story to share. When past and present finally collide, Liv finds herself on a road to salvation that leads right to the caves of the Maison Chauveau.

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My Squirrel Days
by Ellie Kemper

For Gene

Gene may very well be a musical genius, or he might be nuts. Who knows? But one thing’s for sure; he’d find a kindred spirit in comedian and actress Ellie Kemper. Gene and Ellie actually have a lot in common. For one, both are well-intentioned optimists who are smart but also very weird. Just as likely to say the right thing as they are to say the very honest but kooky thing. In her book, My Squirrel Days, Kemper details how she befriends squirrels (sort of) and went to Princeton (yes, that Princeton), pursuing her dreams of acting and washing her dad’s car with a Brillo pad. You know, the kind of zany, oddball adventures Gene would absolutely get into. Equal parts memoir and essays about things like ice cream brands, this book will have you in stitches with all the crazy, wonderful joy only Ellie Kemper could provide.

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My Squirrel Days
Ellie Kemper

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Vicious
by V.E. Schwab

For Louise

A tale of revenge, featuring mad science, epic payback plotting, and dark characters? This one might as well have Louise Belcher’s name written right on the cover. Vicious follows Victor, a student who develops a theory about how to make someone get superpowers, which he ends up proving correct by testing it out on himself. However, his best friend Eli (who also gets powers) ends up turning him in for the accidental death of Eli’s girlfriend. After a decade, Victor breaks out and is looking for revenge on Eli, who has made it his mission to kill every person with any special abilities. Friendships ruined, siblings turned against one another, and an epic chess match of wills and bodies—this is the kind of plot Louise would concoct herself. Gritty, dark, and deliciously devious, our bunny-hat-wearing youngest Belcher would definitely get sucked into this superpowered world.

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Vicious
V.E. Schwab

Good and evil, right and wrong. In fiction, it can be as easy as being told who the good guy is. In reality, however, it’s all about your perspective and circumstance. Victor and Eli are two friends and college students who, after a series of experiments with adrenaline, develop superpowers and accidentally kill Eli’s girlfriend. Victor goes to jail for the crime but escapes a decade later to find Eli is hunting down superpowered individuals in order to eliminate what he considers evil from the world. And yes, this includes children. Thus, two quests, one for revenge and the other for power, end up intertwined once more. With a quick-paced and gripping narrative, along with some fascinating and nuanced characters, Vicious will grab your attention and pull you into a world where nothing is clear-cut and the powers are high-stakes.

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Britt-Marie Was Here
by Fredrik Backman

For Teddy

Poor Teddy, he wants to belong so badly. If he could become a Belcher, he would in a heartbeat. While his presence in the restaurant, and on the show, is often a somewhat pathetic one, it just wouldn’t be Bob’s Burgers if he were gone. That’s why Britt-Marie Was Here is the perfect book for him. Britt-Marie’s existence in the small town of Borg is...less than ideal. She has left her cheating husband and is often treated like a fussy busybody whose opinions on cleanliness and order are not welcome. But she ends up finding meaning in coaching the town’s underdog soccer team, and among her less-than-perfect fellow townspeople. The main character’s sense of isolation and loneliness, as well as her ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, would likely resonate with Teddy, who is as lonely and awkward as they come. Still, the novel would provide hope that he can find his place, even if that place is only at the counter of Bob’s restaurant.

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Britt-Marie Was Here
Fredrik Backman

The New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry “returns with this heartwarming story about a woman rediscovering herself after a personal crisis…fans of Backman will find another winner in these pages” (Publishers Weekly).

Britt-Marie can’t stand mess. A disorganized cutlery drawer ranks high on her list of unforgivable sins. She is not one to judge others—no matter how ill-mannered, unkempt, or morally suspect they might be. It’s just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention.

But hidden inside the socially awkward, fussy busybody is a woman who has more imagination, bigger dreams, and a warmer heart that anyone around her realizes.

When Britt-Marie walks out on her cheating husband and has to fend for herself in the miserable backwater town of Borg—of which the kindest thing one can say is that it has a road going through it—she finds work as the caretaker of a soon-to-be demolished recreation center. The fastidious Britt-Marie soon finds herself being drawn into the daily doings of her fellow citizens, an odd assortment of miscreants, drunkards, layabouts. Most alarming of all, she’s given the impossible task of leading the supremely untalented children’s soccer team to victory. In this small town of misfits, can Britt-Marie find a place where she truly belongs?

Funny and moving, sweet and inspiring, Britt-Marie Was Here celebrates the importance of community and connection in a world that can feel isolating.

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