2024-2025

• Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201 Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman

• Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

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2023-2024

• The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson

• Brave the River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

• The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Tan Eng

• Radical Prunings: A Novel of Officious Advice from the Countess of Compost by Bonnie Thomas Abbott

• At the Edge of the Orchard by Tracy Chevalier

• The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology by Lyric Lee-Mader, illustrated by Beverly Duncan

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2022-2023

• The Brothers Gardeners – A Generation of Gentleman Naturalists and the Birth of an Obsession by Andrea Wulf

• The Island of the Missing Trees by Elif Shafak

• Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp

• The Planter of Modern Life, Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Stephen Heyman

 

2021-2022

• Barkskins by Annie Proulx

• Find the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

• The Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly

• The Artist and the Orchard: A Memoir by Linda Hoffman

• A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London’s Flower Sellers by Hazel Gaynor

• How Carrots Won the Trojan War: Curious {But True} Stories of Common Vegetables by Rebecca Rupp

• Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin

 

2020

• Dancing With Bees:  A Journey Back to Nature by Brigit Strawbridge Howard

• An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter

• Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas Tallamy

• The Earth in Her Hands by Jennifer Jewell

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2019

• American Eden – David Hosaek – Botany and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic by Victoria Johnson

• The Overstory by Richard Powers

• A Perfect Red by Amy Butler Greenfield

• The Indigo Girl, A Novel by Natasha Boyd

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2018 

• Cutting Back: My Apprenticeship in the Gardens of Kyoto by Leslie Buck. A memoir. 

• All The Presidents’ Gardens by Marta McDowell

• The History Of Bees by Maja Lunde

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2017 

• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann

• Lab Girl by Hope Jahrenby

• The Hidden Life of Trees:  What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleban

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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2016-2017 

• 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann

• Lab Girl by Hope Jahrenby

• The Hidden Life of Trees:  What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleban

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• ​The Plant Hunters: Two Hundred Years of Adventure and Discovery Around the World by Toby Musgrave and Chris Gardner

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2014-2015

• The Care & Handling of Roses with Thorns: A Novel by Margaret Dilloway

• The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristen Kimball

• The Signature of All Things: A Novel by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Apples of Uncommon Character: Heirlooms, Modern Classics, and Little-Known Wonders by Rowan Jacobsen

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Summer Reading

• Garden Society Mysteries by Alyse Carlson

• The Azalea Assault, Keeping Mum, and The Begonia Bribe  from Neal Sanders: The Garden Club Gang, A Murder in the Garden Club, and A Murder at the Flower Show 

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2013-2014

• The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe by Glynis Ridley

• The Tulip by Anna Pavord

• Sissinghurst, An Unfinished History: The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West’s Legendary Garden by Adam Nicolson

• Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life: The Plants and Places that Inspired the Classic Children’s Tales by Marta McDowell

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2012-2013

• Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmstead by Justin Martin

• The Land of Blue Poppy by Francis Ward

• The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

• Women and Their Gardens: A History from the Elizabethan Era to Today by Catherine Horwood

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2011-2012

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2010-2011

• The Wild Vine: A Forgotten Grape and the Untold Story of American Wine by Todd Kilman

• Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile by John Hanson Mitchell

• The Trees in My Forest by Bernd Heinrich

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2009-2010

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2008-2009

• The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston

• Seedfolks by Paul Feischman

• The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Garden of Ethnic America by Patricia Klindienst

• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto by Michael Pollan

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2005-2006

• Cultivating Delight: A Natural History of My Garden by Diane Ackerman

• Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other late Natural History Writings by Henry David Thoreau

• Old Herbaceous by Reginald Arkell

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2004-2005

• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

• The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms by Amy Stewart

• An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter

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2003-2004

• The Writer in the Garden edited by Jane Garmey

• A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

• Noah’s Garden by Sara Stein

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2002-2003

• The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness by John Hanson Mitchell

• Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perenyi

• The Gardener’s Year by Karel Capek

• The Essential Earthman by Henry Mitchell

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2001-2002

• Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katherine S. White

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan

• A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd

• The Landscaping Revolution: Garden with Mother Nature, Not Against Her by Andy Wasowski and Sally Wasowski

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2000-2001

• The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean

• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard

• Second Nature by Michael Pollan

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1999-2000

• Men and Gardens by Nan Fairbrother

• The 3,000-Mile Garden by Leslie Lend

• Stalking the Wild Amaranth by Janet Marinelli

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