A Book That Involves Gardening or Farming

A selection of books that fulfills the 2024 UBN category of a book that involves gardening or farming.

Updated January 18, 2024
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The omnivore's dilemma : a natural history of four meals
Pollan, Michael.
Audiobook
The New York Times bestseller that's changing America's diet is now perfect for younger readers "What's for dinner?" seemed like a simple question--until journalist and supermarket detective Michael Pollan delved behind the scenes. From fast food and big organic to...
Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Kingsolver, Barbara.
Paper Book
A year in the life of bestselling novelist, Barbara Kingsolver, and her family as they try to eat local produce, grow their own, and reduce their ecological footprint.
Garden spells
Allen, Sarah Addison.
Paper Book
Bascom, North Carolina is a town where everyone is known for their family's characteristics, passed down through generations. This is a magical, utterly delicious debut that will cast its charm over everyone who loved 'Chocolat' or 'Fried Green Tomatoes'.
The girls in the garden : a novel
Jewell, Lisa
Paper Book
Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play- the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up InandThe Third Wife. You live on a picturesque communal gardensquare, an oasis in urban London where your children run...
The forgotten garden : a novel
Morton, Kate
Paper Book
A moving and powerful mystery, The Forgotten Garden is the bestselling second novel from author of The House at Riverton, Kate Morton. 1913 On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned after a gruelling ocean voyage from England to...
The farm : a novel
Ramos, Joanne
Paper Book
Life is a lucrative business, as long as you play by the rules... Ambitious businesswoman Mae Yu runs Golden Oaks - a luxury retreat transforming the fertility industry. There, women get the very best of everything: organic meals, fitness trainers, daily massages and big money....
Animal farm : a fairy story
Orwell, George
Paper Book
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control...
PRODIGAL SUMMER
KINGSOLVER, BARBARA
Paper Book
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
Mudbound
Jordan, Hillary
Paper Book
City-bred Laura, having turned 30, gives up all hope of ever getting married, until Henry McAllan enters her life. After a brief courtship they marry & start building a life together. They are blessed with two children & live a comfortable life, but Henry dreams of land & the family farm that was...
My Antonia
Cather, Willa
Ebook
The Martian
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode....
The last garden in England
Kelly, Julia
Ebook
From the author of the international bestsellers The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes "a compelling read, filled with lovable characters and an alluring twist of fates" (Ellen Keith, author of The Dutch Wife) about five women living across three different times...
The grapes of wrath
Steinbeck, John
Paper Book
'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrathis Steinbeck's Pultizer Prize-winning epic of the Joad family, forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in...

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