ATROCIOUS BOOKS is Serena Levi 's meticulous inventory (with index) of her working library collection of cookbooks. Serena Levi started her adult life as a cook, and later became a milliner but she spent much of her spare time cooking for friends and family. Now living in quiet retirement, she set out to write her life. First she gathered her books around her. ... This edition of the inventory appears with supplement by A Singer.