The Book Sense Gardening & Nature Bestseller List [3]

For the eight-week period ending August 20, 2006, and based on sales in hundreds of independent bookstores with Book Sense nationwide.

Past Category Bestseller lists [4] are available on ABA's trade website, BookWeb.org [5].

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The Book Sense Gardening & Nature Bestseller List

1.

The Botany of Desire
Michael Pollan, Random House, $13.95, 0375760393

2.

The Golden Spruce
John Vaillant, Norton, $14.95, 0393328643

3.

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
Henry David Thoreau, Penguin, $8.95, 0143037587

4.

Sunset Western Garden Book
Kathleen Norris Brenzel (Ed.), Sunset, $32.95, 0376038756

5.

Outside the Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home
Julie Moir Messervy, Sarah Susanka, Taunton, $34.95, 1561587346

6.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Eastern Region
Elbert L. Little, Jr., Knopf, $19.95, 0394507606

7.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers: Eastern Region
John W. Thieret, Knopf, $19.95, 0375402322

8.

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
Edward Abbey, Ballantine, $6.99, 0345326490

9.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Annie Dillard, HarperCollins, $13.95, 0060953020

10.

The Best American Science and Nature Writing
Jonathan Weiner (Ed.), Houghton Mifflin, $14, 0618273433

11.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to Wildflowers: Western Region
National Audubon Society (Eds.), Knopf, $19.95, 0375402330

12.

Oak: The Frame of Civilization
William Bryant Logan, Norton, $15.95, 0393327787

13.

Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Michael Pollan, Grove Press, $13, 0802140114

14.

Walden: Or, Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau, Dover, $2.50, 0486284956

15.

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Trees: Western Region
Elbert L. Little, Jr., Knopf, $19.95, 0394507614

16.

Walden and Civil Disobedience (150th Anniversary)
Henry David Thoreau, Signet, $5.95, 0451529456

17.

Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning: What, When, Where & How to Prune for a More Beautiful Garden
Cass Turnbull, Kate Allen (Illus.), Sasquatch, $19.95, 1570614687

18.

Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska
Andy MacKinnon, Jim Pojar, Lone Pine Publishing, $24.95, 1551055309

19.

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden: Planting & Pruning Techniques
Tracy DiSabato-Aust, Timber Press, $29.95, 0881924148

20.

The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, and Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans
Patricia Klindienst, Beacon Press, $26.95, 0807085626

21.

The New Garden Paradise: Great Private Gardens of the World
Dominique Browning, and The Editors of House and Garden, Norton, $75, 0393059391

22.

Small Garden
John Brookes, DK, $19.95, 0756617235

23.

National Geographic Field Guide to Trees of North America
Keith Rushforth, Charles Hollis, National Geographic, $17.95, 0792253108

24.

Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Mark Turner, Phyllis Gustafson, Timber Press, $27.95, 0881927457

25.

A Field Guide to Wildflowers: Northeastern and North-Central North America
Roger Tory Peterson, et al., Houghton Mifflin, $19, 0395911729
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