8 must-read nonfiction books like The Modern Gardener: A practical guide to houseplants, herbs and container gardening by Sonya Patel Ellis

Cover of The Modern Gardener: A practical guide to houseplants, herbs and container gardening by Sonya Patel Ellis

The Modern Gardener: A practical guide to houseplants, herbs and container gardening

By: Sonya Patel Ellis

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to modern matchmaking – for plants! All you need to do is be honest about what you can inve…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Modern Gardener: A practical guide to houseplants, herbs and container gardening by Sonya Patel Ellis , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of We, the Drowned by Carsten Jensen, Charlotte Barslund, Liz Jensen, Emma Ryder

1. We, the Drowned

By: Carsten Jensen , Charlotte Barslund , Liz Jensen , Emma Ryder

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

It is an epic drama of adventure, courage, ruthlessness and passion by one of Scandinavia's most ac… read more

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2. A Breath of Snow and Ashes (Outlander, #6)

By: Diana Gabaldon

3.88

Format: 0 pages,

A Breath of Snow and Ashescontinues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser a… read more

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3. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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5. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

6. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

By: Susanna Clarke

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more

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7. Love in a Cold Climate

By: Nancy Mitford

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  One of Nancy Mitford's most beloved nov… read more

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8. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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9. Act of Oblivion

By: Robert Harris

4.07

Format: 463 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fatherland, The Ghostwriter, Munich, and Conclave comes this spellbi… read more

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"He had no idea where they would go, or what they would do, or what dangers lay ahead. But with their love, and their Bible, with their absolute certainty in the power of the Lord and the protection o…"

-Robert Harris, Act of Oblivion

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10. Neighbors

By: Danielle Steel

4.13

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Meredith White was one of Hollywood’s most recognizable faces. But a personal tragedy cut her actin… read more

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"The women who are being abused stay for the sake of the children, to not break up the family, and what the children go through as a result is worse than any divorce, and damages them far more than if…"

-Danielle Steel, Neighbors

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11. The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never m… read more

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  • nonfiction
"As social commentators marvelled, charity was 'frequently derived from the lowest orders"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"The victims of Jack the Ripper were never 'just prostitutes'; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers. They were women. They were human beings, and surely that in itself is enough."

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"At its very core, the story of Jack the Ripper is a narrative of a killer's deep, abiding hatred of women, and our culture's obsession with the mythology serves only to normalize its particular brand…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

"My intention in writing this book is not to hunt and name the killer. I wish instead to retrace the footsteps of five women, to consider their experiences within the context of their era, and to foll…"

-Hallie Rubenhold, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Shipped

By: Angie Hockman

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Unhoneymooners meets The Hating Game in this witty, clever, and swoonworthy novel following a w… read more

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14. I Don't Want to Talk About Home

By: Suad Aldarra

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'I carry my troubled homeland within me; I hide it like a crime.' Growing up in deeply conserva… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Happy Plant: A Beginner's Guide to Cultivating Healthy Plant Care Habits by Puneet Sabharwal

15. Happy Plant: A Beginner's Guide to Cultivating Healthy Plant Care Habits

By: Puneet Sabharwal

3.42

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Foreword by Morgan Doane and Erin Harding, co-authors of How to Raise a Plant and Make it Love You … read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
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16. The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet

By: Dave Goulson

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** The Garden Jungle is a wonderful introduction to the hundreds of sm… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
"much of the peat sold in garden centres is now imported from other countries, notably from Ireland, Estonia, Latvia and Finland. Estonia is a wild and unspoiled country where bears and wolves still r…"

-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet

"We are all complicit, and farmer-bashing is not going to help. We need farmers, more than any other profession. If lawyers, politicians, bankers, university academics or salesmen were to somehow disa…"

-Dave Goulson, The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet

Cover of The Modern Gardener: A practical guide to houseplants, herbs and container gardening by Sonya Patel Ellis

17. The Modern Gardener: A practical guide to houseplants, herbs and container gardening

By: Sonya Patel Ellis

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to modern matchmaking – for plants! All you need to do is be honest about what you can inve… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gardening Together by Diarmuid Gavin

18. Gardening Together

By: Diarmuid Gavin

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Discover the inspiration to get gardening! Create and maintain a stunning and fragrant garden with… read more

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9 must-read audiobook books like The Garden Jungle: or Gardening to Save the Planet by Dave Goulson

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Wilding

Isabella Tree

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

Oliver Milman

4.07

Transform Your Habits

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Guy Shrubsole

4.30

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