This seasonal installment of the 20/20 Books and Food Series brings together Stone Soup, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings (LOTR). A copy of the classic folk tale Stone Soup is included in this book.

If you’ve always thought that books were delicious…

The 20/20 Books and Food Series is the series that soup lovers and book clubs have been looking for, but didn’t know it. This book series brings together twenty thought-provoking book club questions and twenty recipes in the same book. Each book in the 20/20 series is really two books in one. The first part of the book gives you popular seasonal recipes. The second part of the book gives you questions to make any book club party or soup-making endeavor all the more lively.

Additionally, these are no ordinary conversation starters. While most book club questions lists feature subjects like theme and plot -- (although you’ll get those, too, with this series) -- none specifically highlight the role that food plays in novels. The topic of food provides a thematic bind between each book featured in this cookbook/ book club guide -- books that your club might have never thought of reading together, but once you do, you’ll wonder how you could have missed the connection between them.

And at least one of the three stories featured in this installment of the 20/20 series provides inspiration for the decadent soup recipes found in this cookbook.

Food. Books. Friends. No doubt about it. The 20/20 Books and Food Series is the best collection of questions and recipes designed to help your club cook up interesting and memorable book club conversations and decadent food.

This edition of the 20/20 Books and Food Series includes the following recipes:

1. Chili Corn Soup Chowder
2. Easy Chicken and Dumplings Made With Bisquik
3. Italian Chicken Parmesan Soup
4. Enchilada Soup
5. Italian Sausage Soup With Pasta
6. Cowboy Stew
7. Beef and Carrot Soup
8. Homemade Tomato Soup
9. Homemade Tomato Soup 2
10. Winter Vegetable Soup
11. Irish Potato Soup
12. Simple Chicken Soup
13. Chicken, Sausage, Shrimp and Bacon Jambalaya
14. Vegetable Barley Soup
15. Tasty Winter Chili
16. Cabbage Soup with Sausage, Ham, and Potatoes
17. Easy Navy Bean Soup
18. New England Clam Chowder With Bacon
19. Crockpot Irish Lamb Stew
20. Onion Soup