8 must-read nature books like Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden by Bill Noble

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Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden

By: Bill Noble

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Delve into this beautiful book. You’ll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens b…

If you liked the nature plot in Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden by Bill Noble , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Designing and Planting a Woodland Garden: Plants and Combinations that Thrive in the Shade by Keith Wiley

1. Designing and Planting a Woodland Garden: Plants and Combinations that Thrive in the Shade

By: Keith Wiley

3.46

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

“The wonder of woodland gardening is that it looks like plants grow themselves there. After reading… read more

Similar categories in Keith Wiley's Designing and Planting a Woodland Garden: Plants and Combinations that Thrive in the Shade book and Bill Noble's Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden

  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour

2. Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

By: Lisa Damour

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel Sch… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes by Rick Darke, Piet Oudolf

3. Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes

By: Rick Darke , Piet Oudolf

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you can't get to the High Line. . . this is the next best thing." --The Washington Post Before … read more

Similar categories in Rick Darke's Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes book and Bill Noble's Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden

  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage by None, Adam Levine, David L. Culp, Teri Dunn  Chace

4. The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage

By: None , Adam Levine , David L. Culp , Teri Dunn Chace

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the desig… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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5. The Cut Flower Garden

By: Erin Benzakein , Michele M. Waite , None

4.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature

6. Landscaping for Privacy: Innovative Ways to Turn Your Outdoor Space into a Peaceful Retreat

By: Marty Wingate

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The area around your home is your haven, your sanctuary, your refuge from the noise and irritation … read more

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7. Lolly Willowes

By: Sylvia Townsend Warner , Alison Lurie

3.50

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

In Lolly Willowes, an ageing spinster rebels against her role as the universal aunt, at everybody's… read more

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8. How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease

By: Michael Greger , Gene Stone

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

From the physician behind the wildly popular website NutritionFacts.org, How Not to Die reveals the… read more

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9. John Adams

By: David McCullough

3.71

Format: 435 pages,

The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Am… read more

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10. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

By: Stephen R. Covey , Ron McMillan , Kerry Patterson , Joseph Grenny , Al Switzler

3.78

Format: None pages,

Learn how to keep your cool and get the results you want when emotions flare. When stakes are high,… read more

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11. Hark! A Vagrant

By: Kate Beaton

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Hark! A Vagrantis an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemp… read more

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12. The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District

By: James Rebanks

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Hardcover

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James … read more

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13. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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14. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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15. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

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"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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16. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • nonfiction
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

Cover of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker

17. The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

By: Priya Parker

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A transformative exploration of the power, purpose, and benefits of gatherings in our lives: at wor… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Chill" is a selfishness disguised as kindness"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Good controversy is much more likely to happen when it is invited in but carefully structured."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"In a world of infinite choices, choosing one thing is the revolutionary act. Imposing that restriction is actually liberating."

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

"Barack Obama's aunt once told him, 'If everyone is family, no one is family.' It is blood that makes a tribe, a border that makes a nation. The same is true of gatherings. So here is a corollary to h…"

-Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

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18. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Bill Noble's Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden

  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Cover of Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers: Designing Gorgeous Arrangements for Every Season by Erin Benzakein

19. Floret Farm's A Year in Flowers: Designing Gorgeous Arrangements for Every Season

By: Erin Benzakein

4.59

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller— New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Publisher's Weekly , Washington Post L… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Feels Like Home: Relaxed Interiors for a Meaningful Life by Lauren Liess

20. Feels Like Home: Relaxed Interiors for a Meaningful Life

By: Lauren Liess

4.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The third design book from Lauren Liess, the TV and social media star and author of Habitat and Dow… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Modern Cottage Garden: A Fresh Approach to a Classic Style by Greg Loades

21. The Modern Cottage Garden: A Fresh Approach to a Classic Style

By: Greg Loades

3.71

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

In this practical and inspirational guide, Greg Loades presents a new style of planting: a fusion b… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of New Naturalism: Designing and Planting A Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden by Kelly D.   Norris

22. New Naturalism: Designing and Planting A Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden

By: Kelly D. Norris

3.92

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In New Naturalism, horticulturist and modern plantsman Kelly D. Norris shares his inspiring, ecolog… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening by Montagu Don

23. The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening

By: Montagu Don

4.54

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Combining practical advice with stunning photography, The Complete Gardener shows gardeners how to … read more

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

24. 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
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25. Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden

By: Bill Noble

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Delve into this beautiful book. You’ll come away sharing his passion for the beauty that gardens b… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again by Page Dickey

26. Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again

By: Page Dickey

3.83

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

“ Uprooted  reveals how a late-life uprooting changed Dickey as a gardener.”  —The Wall Street Jour… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The View from Federal Twist: A New Way of Thinking About Gardens, Nature and Ourselves by James Golden

27. The View from Federal Twist: A New Way of Thinking About Gardens, Nature and Ourselves

By: James Golden

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Federal Twist is set on a ridge above the Delaware River in western New Jersey. It is a naturalisti… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
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28. The Gardening Book

By: Monty Don

4.47

Format: 574 pages, Kindle Edition

A fresh approach to gardening by bestselling author and the nation's favourite gardener Monty Don.'… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
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29. A Year at Brandywine Cottage: Six Seasons of Beauty, Bounty, and Blooms

By: David L. Culp

4.22

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

“If you've been looking to be inspired by nature and everything your garden gives you, you'll be en… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of Flowers by Design: Creating Arrangements for Your Space by Ingrid Carozzi

30. Flowers by Design: Creating Arrangements for Your Space

By: Ingrid Carozzi

3.66

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From florist and founder of Tin Can Studios Ingrid Carozzi, a guide to creating floral arrangements… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of From Seed to Bloom: A Year of Growing and Designing with Seasonal Flowers by Milli Proust

31. From Seed to Bloom: A Year of Growing and Designing with Seasonal Flowers

By: Milli Proust

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Milli Proust is inspired by the way plants grow in the wild, and she loves working with what she gr… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction

22 Best nonfiction books like Spirit of Place: The Making of a New England Garden by Bill Noble

Transform Your Habits

Designing and Planting a Woodland Garden: Plants and Combinations that Thrive in the Shade

Keith Wiley

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood

Lisa Damour

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes

Rick Darke , Piet Oudolf

3.38

Transform Your Habits

The Layered Garden: Design Lessons for Year-Round Beauty from Brandywine Cottage

None , Adam Levine , David L. Culp , Teri Dunn Chace

4.18

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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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