Gluten-Free Books

Reading and Resources

If you are looking for gluten-free books and resources, this list will give you a good start. Over the years and in building this site I've read a variety of material. Although there are some books that focus on celiac disease and gluten free foods specifically, I've broadened my reading to include an exploration of the food industry, auto-immune disease, cooking for health and other related material. Note that none of these books are made with wheat, rye or barley so they are all technically gluten free books ;) I hope you enjoy...

A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

Authors: Heather Heying and Brett Weinstein

The book isn’t just about food specifically, it’s about us as a species and how we’ve come such a long way from the forests of our ancestors into today’s high tech world of social media, processed food-like substances, hook-up culture and helicopter parenting... read full review

An Epidemic of Absence: A New Way of Understanding Allergies and Auto-Immune Diseases

Author: Moses Velasquez-Manoff

This book is fascinating!

And I think in many ways it will prove to be cutting edge.

If you’ve been keeping up with recent news in the medical world, you may have heard the term “micro biome”. ..full review

Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health through Diet

Author: Elaine Gloria Gottschall, B.A, MSc

The premise of the book is that many intestinal diseases: Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn’s Disease, Colitis, and of course Celiac Disease, are all manifestations of the body’s inability to process complex sugars... full review

Eating Animals

Author: Jonathan Safran Foer

A stellar piece of investigative journalism, Foer takes it one step further than anything else I’ve read or seen on the subject of factory farming... full review

Folk Medicine: A New England Almanac of Natural Health from a Noted Vermont Country Doctor

Author: D.C Jarvis, M.D.

This is where it all began, for me anyway. My commitment to the concept that the natural world and the food we eat hold the key to our health... full review

In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto

Author: Michael Pollan

No one writes more eloquently or compellingly about food than Michael Pollan. This book is not specifically for celiacs or anyone on a gluten free diet, it’s for anyone who eats...full review

Mayo Clinic: Going Gluten Free

Author: Joseph A. Murray, M.D.

What I really love is that Dr. Murray has been in this from very early on, from before gluten was a household and much misunderstood word. He studied at the National University of Ireland in Galway, a town in the west of Ireland more...

Meals That Heal Inflammation

Author: Julie Daniluk

Everything from common sense nutritional advice that cuts through the latest fads and focuses on real science to recipes and meal plans that make eating healthy nothing short of fun and delicious...full review

The G-Free Diet: A Gluten Free Survival Guide

Author: Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Elisabeth Hasselbeck of The View shares her personal story of unexplained illness, to diagnosis, to how she manages all of the day to day challenges of life with celiac disease...full review

The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Author: Michael Pollan

Not specifically about gluten in any way, but a pure and poignant exposé on our food system and how corn came to take over the world... full review

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health

Author: William Davis M.D>

Davis makes the case, supported by extensive studies and his own clinical practice that everyone should give up wheat because everyone to some degree is intolerant...full review