22 best-selling nonfiction books like Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity by Dan Jason

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Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity

By: Dan Jason

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Much of our food comes from seeds. But where do our seeds come from? And where are they going? For …

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1. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

4.00

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."

-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"

-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

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2. The New Seed Starters Handbook (Rodale Organic Gardening)

By: Nancy Bubel , None , Jean Nick

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The New Seed-Starter's Handbook by Nancy Bubel Why start plants from seed? * Earlier harvests * G… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
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3. The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

By: Helaine Olen , Harold Pollack

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

TV analysts and money managers would have you believe your finances are enormously complicated and … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman

4. My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

By: Christian Wiman

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetrymagazine, wrote a now-f… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Curated Closet: A Simple System for Discovering Your Personal Style and Building Your Dream Wardrobe

By: Anuschka Rees

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

A brilliant and inspirational roadmap for discovering and cultivating a strong sense of personal st… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

7. The Strange Library

By: Haruki Murakami , Ted Goossen

4.36

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami--a fantastical illustrated short novel about … read more

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8. The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith

By: Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Rosaria, by the standards of many, was living a very good life. She had a tenured position at a lar… read more

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9. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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10. The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food

By: Janisse Ray

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is no despair in a seed. There's only life, waiting for the right conditions-sun and water, w… read more

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11. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

By: David Allen

4.01

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

In today's world, yesterday's methods just don't work. In Getting Things Done, veteran coach and ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects."

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist."

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Getting things done, and feeling good about it, means being willing to recognize, acknowledge, and appropriately manage all the things that have your consciousness engaged. Mastering the art of stres…"

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

"Your life and work are made up of outcomes and actions. When your operational behavior is grooved to organize everything that comes your way, at all levels, based upon those dynamics, a deep alignmen…"

-David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

12. My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)

By: Jean Craighead George

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the soli… read more

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13. Witch Hat Atelier, Vol. 1

By: Kamome Shirahama

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A TOUCH OF MAGIC In a world where everyone takes wonders like magic spells and dragons for grant… read more

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14. This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In This Is Your Mind on Plants, Michael Pollan dives deep into three plant drugs--opium, caffeine, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"[Taloma] offered prayers for us and for our troubled country and world. She invoked the spirit of the cactus in teaching us how to heal ourselves and how, once healed, we could better help to heal ot…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"The war on drugs is in truth a war on some drugs, their enemy status the result of historical accident, cultural prejudice, and institutional imperative. The taxonomy on behalf of which this war is b…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"How can you possibly expect to write anything when you can't concentrate? That's pretty much all writers do: take the blooming multiplicity of the world and our experience of it, literally concentrat…"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

"There's a parable here somewhere, about the difference between journalism and history. What might appear to be "the story" in the present moment may actually be a distraction from it, a shiny object …"

-Michael Pollan, This Is Your Mind on Plants

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15. とんがり帽子のアトリエ 5 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 5]

By: Kamome Shirahama

4.55

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

魔法使いを目指すことになった「普通のひと」のココ。同じアトリエで魔法を学ぶアガットとリチェが「第2の試験」を受けているところに、禁止魔法を使う「つばあり帽」の妨害が入る。ココも巻き込まれ、師匠のキー… read more

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16. Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

By: Jennie Allen

4.08

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

You can choose hope in the midst of chaos. The visionary behind the million-strong IF:Gathering cha… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms

By: Justin Whitmel Earley

4.61

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond t… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

By: Abigail Shrier

4.06

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous g… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Children’s and adolescents’ sense of self is still developing. They cannot correct the interpretations or recommendations of a therapist."

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

"When I agreed with my therapist, I told her so. When I didn’t, we talked about that. And when I felt I needed to move on, I did. Which is to say: I was an adult in therapy. I had swum life’s choppy w…"

-Abigail Shrier, Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

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20. Marilla of Green Gables

By: Sarah McCoy

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and mo… read more

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"Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"There was power in knowledge. Like the gears of a steam engine, the more active knowledge was, the more force it produced."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Human hearts are full of strife. It's a fallen world, my dears. We can only do our best to establish safe havens where we can."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Just take a deep breath and go on in there with your head held high. Look for good things and good things [are] what you'll find..."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

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21. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

By: James Nestor

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matt… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World by Brooke McAlary

22. Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

By: Brooke McAlary

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Are you constantly striving to keep up with life's busy expectations? It's easy to feel consumed wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Did slowing down and simplifying make our lives easier? Not really. And certainly not in the beginning. Simpler, yes, but not easier. What it did do was put the important things front and center."

-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

"Because what is privilege if not an opportunity? Opportunity to make things better for everyone? Opportunity to see inequity and rectify it? Opportunity to take these immense and lucky gifts and make…"

-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

"I've realized that in order to leave the world a better place than I found it - to be compassionate and caring - I need to be strong, I need to be vulnerable, I need to be healthy and vital and full …"

-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

"permission. You are allowed to make changes to the way you're living. You're allowed to look after yourself. You're allowed to decide what is important to you. And you're allowed to create a life wit…"

-Brooke McAlary, Slow: Simple Living for a Frantic World

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23. Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect

By: Will Guidara

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller Essential lessons in hospitality for every business, from the former co-owner … read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There

By: Tara Schuster

3.89

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Brutally honest, often hilarious, hard-won lessons in learning to love and care for yourself from a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Life is not a series of crises to be endured. Life is to be enjoyed."

-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There

"The thing about moving," he said, "is it's a good way to shake loose whatever old baggage you have, or the old things that were true about yourself, and decide what you want to be true about yourself…"

-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There

"I think we all suffer from the societal pressure to always be occupied. Busy is worn as a badge of honor these days, the busier we are, the more important we feel. But busy doesn't mean important, bu…"

-Tara Schuster, Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: And Other Rituals to Fix Your Life, from Someone Who's Been There

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25. The Way Forward (The Inward Trilogy)

By: Yung Pueblo

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling poet returns with his most inspiring collection yet. In this thir… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. Mushroom Rain

By: Laura K. Zimmermann

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

What can smell like bubble gum, glow neon green at night, be poisonous and yet still eaten by human… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition

By: Lorraine Johnson

4.66

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Support biodiversity with this practical guide to creating habitat gardens for native pollinators i… read more

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  • gardening
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28. Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity

By: Dan Jason

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Much of our food comes from seeds. But where do our seeds come from? And where are they going? For … read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of Four-Season Food Gardening: How to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs year-round by Misilla dela Llana

29. Four-Season Food Gardening: How to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs year-round

By: Misilla dela Llana

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Four-Season Food Gardening hands you all the know-how you need to make growing food 365 days a year… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Grow Your Soil!: Harness the Power of the Soil Food Web to Create Your Best Garden Ever by Diane Miessler

30. Grow Your Soil!: Harness the Power of the Soil Food Web to Create Your Best Garden Ever

By: Diane Miessler

4.30

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Growing awareness of the importance of soil health means that microbes are on the minds of even the… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Gardening Your Front Yard: Projects and Ideas for Big and Small Spaces by Tara Nolan

31. Gardening Your Front Yard: Projects and Ideas for Big and Small Spaces

By: Tara Nolan

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Gardening Your Front Yard is an active, inspiring resource that shows you how to treat your front y… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction

6 must-read gardening books like Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity by Dan Jason

Transform Your Habits

The New Seed Starters Handbook (Rodale Organic Gardening)

Nancy Bubel , None , Jean Nick

4.21

Transform Your Habits

A Garden for the Rusty-Patched Bumblebee: Creating Habitat for Native Pollinators: Ontario and Great Lakes Edition

Lorraine Johnson

4.66

Transform Your Habits

Saving Seeds: A Home Gardener’s Guide to Preserving Plant Biodiversity

Dan Jason

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Four-Season Food Gardening: How to grow vegetables, fruits, and herbs year-round

Misilla dela Llana

4.11

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20 Top nonfiction books like Gardening Your Front Yard: Projects and Ideas for Big and Small Spaces by Tara Nolan

Transform Your Habits

Planting the Natural Garden

Piet Oudolf , Henk Gerritsen

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Small-Space Vegetable Gardens: Growing Great Edibles in Containers, Raised Beds, and Small Plots

Andrea Bellamy

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza

Ken Forkish

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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