A Meal Observed, Knopf, 2004
“Delectable… a tribute to Todhunter's prowess as a writer… has the flavor and urbanity of A.J. Liebling and John McPhee.”
—New York Daily News
“Enchanting... When the final glasses of cognac arrive with the bill at 12:06 a.m., you’ll feel as sated as Todhunter did on that cool summer night.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“…Todhunter plays it superlatively… He is appealingly unsnobbish [and] eloquent.”
—The New Yorker
Dangerous Games, Doubleday, 2000
“Top-drawer extreme sports writing from Todhunter, unadorned and vital and appealingly decorous.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A stunning collection. Though these stories are from real life, they read like short fiction, vignettes of incredible characters and their even more incredible pastimes… a real gem of adventure work.”
—Booklist
“Front and center in this philosophical and exhilarating collection is the humanity motivating every incredible action.”
—The New York Times
Fall of the Phantom Lord, Anchor Books, 1998
“Classic, participant-observer journalism, informed and heady, that brightly illuminates the strange, enthralling world of extreme sports.”
—Kirkus Reviews
"Andrew Todhunter produces some of the freshest and most original writing about climbing in recent memory.”
—David Roberts
“Todhunter has the writing style of a good climber on steep rock—calm, precise, and apparently effortless.”
—Sebastian Junger