The Indie Gardening & Nature Bestseller List

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For the eight-week period ending July 22, 2008, and based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores nationwide.

1.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara and Camille Kingsolver, Steven Hopp, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780060852566

2.

The Botany of Desire
Michael Pollan, Random House, $13.95, 9780375760396

3.

The Wild Trees
Richard Preston, Random House, $16, 9780812975598

4.

The Garden Primer
Barbara Damrosch, Workman, $18.95, 9780761122753

5.

American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
Bill McKibben (Ed.), Library of America, $40, 9781598530209

6.

Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World
Wendy Johnson, Bantam, $25, 9780553378030

7.

The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book
Barbara W. Ellis, Storey, $14.95, 9781603420242

8.

The Wild Places
Robert MacFarlane, Penguin, $15, 9780143113935

9.

Sunset Western Garden Book
Kathleen Norris Brenzel (Ed.), Sunset, $34.95, 9780376039163

10.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region
Elbert L. Little, Jr., Knopf, $19.95, 9780394507606

11.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard, Harper Perennial, $14.95, 9780061233326

12.

All New Square Foot Gardening: Grow More in Less Space!
Mel Bartholomew, Cool Springs Press, $19.99, 9781591862024

13.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan, Grove/Atlantic, $14, 9780802140111

14.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
John W. Thieret, Knopf, $19.95, 9780375402326

15.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing
Tim Folger (Ed.), Houghton Mifflin, $14, 9780618722310

16.

The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
Barbara Pleasant, Deborah L. Martin, Storey, $19.95, 9781580177023

17.

The Vegetable Gardener's Bible
Edward C. Smith, Storey, $24.95, 9781580172127

18.

National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America
Bruce Kershner, Sterling, $19.95, 9781402738753

19.

Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Andy MacKinnon, Jim Pojar, Lone Pine, $24.95, 9781551055305

20.

Grow Organic
Anna Kruger (Ed.), DK, $25, 9780756636777

21.

Desert Solitaire
Edward Abbey, Ballantine, $7.99, 9780345326492

22.

The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces From an Active Life
Bill McKibben, Holt, $18, 9780805076271

23.

Perennial Combinations
C. Colston Burrell, Rodale, $22.95, 9781594868535

24.

How to Grow More Vegetables
John Jeavons, Ten Speed Press, $19.95, 9781580087964

25.

Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau, Dover, $3.50, 9780486284958