Today is March 14, or 3.14, which is the common approximation of the mathematical constant, Pi or π.
You can celebrate Pi Day by doing math or by eating pie. Baking involves ratios so if you bake a pie you’re celebrating Pi day to the Nth degree.
Here are 3.14 books for celebrating Pi Day:
1. How to Bake Pi by Eugenia Cheng
Math can be tricky, but Cheng seeks to explain concepts in a relatable way–through food. More of us might have looked forward to math class if tasty treats had been involved. Get a copy from Better World Books.
2. Cutie Pies by Dani Cone
Eating a whole pie by yourself is both more manageable and fewer calories when it is an adorable mini pie. With Cone’s variety of recipes, you could celebrate Pi day with a different mini pie for breakfast lunch and dinner. Get a copy from Better World Books.
3. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
This isn’t really about Pi or Pie, but we wanted to include something for everyone. This is a murder mystery in and eleven-year-old aspiring chemist stumbles upon a man taking his dying breath in the cumber patch. Get a copy from Better World Books.
(.)14 Other Pi(e)-related books:
- Totally Pies Cookbook by Helene Siegel
- Pie by Sarah Weeks (Children’s Fiction)
- A History of Pi by Peter Beckman (Mathematics)
- Martha Stewart’s New Pies and Tarts (Cookbook)
- Pies and Prejudice by Heather Vogel Frederick (Young Adult Fiction, a Mother-Daughter Book Club Book)
- Easy as Pi by Jamie Buchan (Mathematics)
- Whoopie Pies by Sarah Billingsley & Amy Treadwell (Cookbook)
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel (Fiction)
- The Joy of Pi by David Blatner (Mathematics)
- Pizza: And Other Savory Pies by Briget Binns (Cookbook)
- Blackberry Pie Murder by Joanne Fluke (Fiction, A Hannah Swenson Mystery)
- American Pie by Pascale Le Draoulec (Nonfiction, Slice of Life)
- Dinosaur Dinner with a Slice of Alligator Pie by Dennis Lee (Children’s Picture Book)
- Pi to 100,000 Places (Mathematics)
