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10 best books like My Garden (Book) (Jamaica Kincaid): Our Life in Gardens, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters, Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement, The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem, Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden, Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden, Onward and Upward in the Garden, Down the Garden Path, Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World

Our Life in Gardens
AuthorJoe Eck
ISBN0374160317
This is the third book we have written together, though separately we have written others . . . But to say ‘written separately' makes no sense, for when two lives have been bent for so many years on one central enterprise—in this case, gardening—there really is no such thing as separately."

With...
Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth
AuthorWilliam Bryant Logan
"You are about to read a lot about dirt, which no one knows very much about." So begins the cult classic that brings mystery and magic to "that stuff that won't come off your collar."


John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Saint Phocas, Darwin, and Virgil parade through this thought-provoking work,...
Two Gardeners: Katharine S. White & Elizabeth Lawrence--A Friendship in Letters
AuthorEmily Herring Wilson
ISBN0807085596
A legendary editor at The New Yorker during its first thirty-four years, Katharine S. White was also a great garden enthusiast. In March 1958 she began publishing her popular column, "Onward and Upward in the Garden." Her first column elicited loads of fan mail, but one letter in particular caught her...
Around the House and in the Garden: A Memoir of Heartbreak, Healing, and Home Improvement
AuthorDominique Browning
ISBN0743226933
"My story," writes Dominique Browning, the editor in chief of House & Garden, "is about the way a house can express loss, and then bereavement, and then, finally, the rebuilding of a life."

Around the House and in the Garden is a moving narrative, culled from Browning's much-loved monthly...
The Vegetable Gardener's Guide to Permaculture: Creating an Edible Ecosystem
AuthorChristopher Shein
ISBN1604692707
“A masterful distillation of permaculture in a way that is easy to apply to our gardens, farms, and lives today.” —David Cody, founder, Urban Permaculture Institute

Once a fringe topic, permaculture is moving to the mainstream as gardeners who are ready to take their organic gardening...
Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden
AuthorDiane Ackerman
ISBN0060199865
In the mode of her esteemed bestseller A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman's new book, Cultivating Delight celebrates the sensory pleasures she discovers in her garden.

Ackerman delights in her garden through all the seasons. Whether she is deadheading flowers or glorying in...
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden
AuthorEleanor Perenyi
A classic in the literature of the garden, Green Thoughts is a beautifully written and highly original collection of seventy-two essays, alphabetically arranged, on topics ranging from “Annuals” and “Artichokes” to “Weeds” and “Wildflowers.” An amateur gardener for over thirty...
Onward and Upward in the Garden
AuthorKatharine S. White
ISBN0807085618
Katharine White began working at The New Yorker in 1925, the year of its founding, and was an editor there for thirty-four years, shaping the careers of such writers as John O'Hara, Vladimir Nabokov, and Jean Stafford. Throughout and beyond those years she was also a gardener. In 1958, when her job as...
Down the Garden Path
AuthorBeverley Nichols
ISBN0881927104
Rating Clarification: 4.5 Stars

This is one of those books that would have forever remained hidden from my reading world without the auspices of Goodreads in general and my GR buddy Leslie in particular (to Leslie - thanks for your squee-worthy review which led me to read this).

Written...
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
AuthorWendy Johnson
ISBN0553378031
Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate is fundamental work that permeates your entire life. It demands your energy and heart, and it gives you back great treasures as well, like a fortified sense of humor, an appreciation for paradox, and a huge harvest of Dinosaur kale and tiny red potatoes.

For...
The Garden Primer
AuthorBarbara Damrosch
ISBN0894803166
Now the beloved classic is revised front-to-back. The new edition has gone 100% organic, which in Barbara Damrosch's hands also means completely accessible. It reflects the latest research on plants, soils, tools, and techniques. There is updated and expanded information on planning a garden,...
A Restricted Country
AuthorJoan Nestle
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Joan was kind, amiable, flirty, sweet-tempered, clear-eyed. she was filled with gentle strength; her spirit glowed. a generous aunt, one who loved the world around her and who shared that...
Perennial Vegetables: From Artichokes to Zuiki Taro, a Gardener's Guide to Over 100 Delicious and Easy to Grow Edibles
AuthorEric Toensmeier
ISBN1931498407
There is a fantastic array of vegetables you can grow in your garden, and not all of them are annuals. In Perennial Vegetables the adventurous gardener will find information, tips, and sound advice on less common edibles that will make any garden a perpetual, low-maintenance source of food.

Imagine...
Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales
AuthorMarta McDowell
ISBN1604693630
A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the Garden Writers Association Gold Award

There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in...
Delights and Prejudices
AuthorJames Beard
ISBN0689706057

3 Beard Stars
I requested an R2R of this after reading the James Beard Cookbook… I did not realize I was getting a memoir. I wanted more recipes. It’s not really a cookbook and it’s not really a memoir it’s a strange blend of the two. I wish I loved it but it was very one note and boring. The...
Brooklyn Was Mine
AuthorValerie Steiker
ISBN1594482829
A tribute to New York City's most literary borough-featuring original nonfiction pieces by today's most celebrated writers.

Of all the urban landscapes in America, perhaps none has so thoroughly infused and nurtured modern literature as Brooklyn. Though its literary history runs deep-Walt...
Laughing Allegra: The Inspiring Story of a Mother's Struggle and Triumph Raising a Daughter With Learning Disabilities
AuthorAnne Ford
ISBN1557046220
When Anne Ford, great-granddaughter of Henry Ford, learned that her four-year-old daughter Allegra’s “differences” were the result of severe learning disabilities, she faced a challenge that neither money nor position could ease. Desperate for answers, Anne sought out doctors, teachers,...
Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares
AuthorCarmen L. Oliveira
ISBN0813530334
Rare and Commonplace Flowers—a Brazilian bestseller—tells the story of two women. Elizabeth Bishop, the Pulitzer Prize–winning American poet, sought artistic inspiration in Brazil. There she met and fell in love with Lota de Macedo Soares, a self-trained Brazilian architect. This dual...
Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object
AuthorLaurie Colwin
ISBN0060958960
When Sam Bax, that charming daredevil of a Boston lawyer, sails his boat into a storm off the coast of Maine, Elizabeth "Olly" Bax, his wife and ardent sidekick, becomes a widow at the edge of twenty-seven.  With no pretense of "courage", Olly grieves, coping with the warmth and awkwardness of family...
Retreat from Love
AuthorColette
ISBN0720612276
One of the best of the celebrated Claudine novels, this installment follows the sexual and emotional machinations of three upper-class youths in a remote farmhouse, where the protagonist of the series awaits her husband Renaud's return from a Swiss sanatorium. She distracts herself by encouraging...
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