11 Top nonfiction books like Wild: The Naturalistic Garden by Noel Kingsbury

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Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

By: Noel Kingsbury

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'This extraordinarily useful compendium should be required reading for anyone aspiring to ... a gor…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Wild: The Naturalistic Garden by Noel Kingsbury , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes

By: Thomas Rainer , Claudia West

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

"As practical as it is poetic. . . . an optimistic call to action." --Chicago Tribune Over time, wi… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Rainer's Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • gardening
  • landscape architecture
  • nonfiction

2. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's Erasure book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

3. Mr. Wilkinson's Vegetables: A Cookbook to Celebrate the Garden

By: Matt Wilkinson

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This lush, creative cookbook celebrates the flavor and versatility of vegetables by bringing them t… read more

Similar categories in Matt Wilkinson's Mr. Wilkinson's Vegetables: A Cookbook to Celebrate the Garden book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

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4. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • nonfiction
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5. Calling for a Blanket Dance

By: Oscar Hokeah

4.25

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

A moving and deeply engaging debut novel about a young Native American man struggling to find stren… read more

Similar categories in Oscar Hokeah's Calling for a Blanket Dance book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

"We danced, the way Kiowas danced, when called by our people, by our ancestors, to help each other heal."

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

"Driving out of Lawton, I laid my hand onto Ever's quilt and traced my fingertips around the edges of the bird pattern. I couldn't help but wonder, tla, couldn't help but worry: Would my grandson ever…"

-Oscar Hokeah, Calling for a Blanket Dance

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6. Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.02

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Bombay, New Year's Eve, 1949As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Pe… read more

Similar categories in Vaseem Khan's Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1) book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

"Just because a cow stands in a field all day doesn’t make it a philosopher"

-Vaseem Khan, Midnight at Malabar House (Malabar House #1)

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7. American Roots: Lessons and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagining Our Home Gardens

By: Nick McCullough

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“I love this book. Here are home gardens of designers from every part of our great country that are… read more

Similar categories in Nick McCullough's American Roots: Lessons and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagining Our Home Gardens book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • gardening
  • nonfiction
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8. Happy-Go-Lucky

By: David Sedaris

4.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris, the “champion storyteller,” ( Los Angeles Times ) returns with his first new collect… read more

Similar categories in David Sedaris's Happy-Go-Lucky book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • nonfiction
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9. The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more

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"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

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10. The Local

By: Joey Hartstone

4.12

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

The Lincoln Lawyer in the land of Friday Night Lights, where a freewheeling patent attorney must ta… read more

Similar categories in Joey Hartstone's The Local book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

Cover of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta

11. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

Similar categories in Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • nonfiction
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12. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • nonfiction
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13. In Ascension

By: Martin MacInnes

3.79

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the oc… read more

Similar categories in Martin MacInnes's In Ascension book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

"I questioned what else I had already missed so far, in my own life, simply through the limits of my character."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"Once he had committed to this life, there was no way he could get out of it. He was angry at us, his daughters, because the financial demands of our existence bound him to it."

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"I kind of love it. It's so macabre. The reason we haven't seen or heard from anything off-world is that reaching off-world status is a civilisational death knell. Life either gets stuck there or dest…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

"The air was thick with teeming life, just as the oceans and the rivers were. A spoonful of seawater or a pinch of soil between your fingers held billions of living things. We were blind to this out o…"

-Martin MacInnes, In Ascension

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14. God: An Anatomy

By: Francesca Stavrakopoulou

4.25

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing and revelatory history that re-presents God as he was originally envisioned by ancie… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Stavrakopoulou's God: An Anatomy book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • nonfiction
"How could I not be distracted? Here was a deity just like those I’d visited in museums as a child—a god of ancient myths, fantastic stories and long-lost rituals; a god from the distant past, from a …"

-Francesca Stavrakopoulou, God: An Anatomy

Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

15. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

Similar categories in Bent Flyvbjerg's How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • nonfiction
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16. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

Cover of The Dying Day (Malabar House #2) by Vaseem Khan

17. The Dying Day (Malabar House #2)

By: Vaseem Khan

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles.Bombay, 1950For over a century, one o… read more

Similar categories in Vaseem Khan's The Dying Day (Malabar House #2) book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

"His hair gushed up in Brylcreemed fountains and an ill-advised pencil moustache lingered in embarrassment above his upper lip."

-Vaseem Khan, The Dying Day (Malabar House #2)

Cover of The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday by Sharon Blackie

18. The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday

By: Sharon Blackie

4.04

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Taking as her starting point the inspiration and wisdom that can be derived from myth, fairy tales,… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Blackie's The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of the Everyday book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • nonfiction
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19. The Mind of a Bee

By: Lars Chittka

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive min… read more

Similar categories in Lars Chittka's The Mind of a Bee book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • nonfiction
"American writer and biologist Frederick Kenyon (1867-1941) was the first to explore the inner workings of the bee brain. His 1896 study, in which he managed to dye and characterize numerous types of …"

-Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee

Cover of Wild: The Naturalistic Garden by Noel Kingsbury

20. Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

By: Noel Kingsbury

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

'This extraordinarily useful compendium should be required reading for anyone aspiring to ... a gor… read more

Similar categories in Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden book and Noel Kingsbury's Wild: The Naturalistic Garden

  • gardening
  • landscape architecture
  • nonfiction

18 must-read audiobook books like The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

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Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

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4.54

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