List O Mania

For those who can't get enough of lists, here's our top five picks in an assortment of categories.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

1. The New Self-Sufficient Gardener, by John Seymour
2. A Pattern Garden: the Essential Elements of Garden Making, by Valerie Easton
3. Ask Ciscoe, by Ciscoe Morris
4. Perennials, by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix
5. Native Ferns, Mosses, and Grasses, by William Cullina

Cookbooks

1. The Flexitarian Table, by Peter Berley
2. Pure Dessert, by Alice Medrich
3. Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes From a Modern Kitchen Garden, by Jeanne Kelley
4. Mexican Everyday, by Rick Bayless
5. Washington Wines and Wineries, by Paul Gregutt

Best Book Club Bets

1. Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
2. The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
3. The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers
4. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, by Dinaw Mengestu
5. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert

Memoir Madness

1. Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
2. Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
3. How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman
4. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, by Peter Goodwin
5. Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine

Mom's Time Out

1. I Feel Bad About my Neck, by Nora Ephron
2. Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
3. Friday Night Knitting Club, by Kate Jacobs
4. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, by Thomas McNamee
5. Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan

Thrill-Seekers Club

1. Various Haunts of Men, by Susan Hill
2. The Woods, by Harlan Coben
3. Dark Star, by Alan Furst
4. The Machiavelli Covenant, by Allan Folsom
5. The Accomplice, by Elizabeth Ironside

Picturebooks for Kids

1. Fancy Nancy Bonjour, Butterfly, by Jane O'Connor
2. The Fish Who Cried Wolf, by Julia Donaldson
3. The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, by Mo Willems
4. Help Me, Mr. Mutt, by Janet Stevens
5. Don't Bump the Glump, by Shel Silverstein

Middle Grade Fiction Favorites

1. The Ranger's Apprentice, Book 4: The Battle for Skandia, by John Flanagan
2. The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, by Jeanne Birdsall
3. Nim at Sea, by Wendy Orr
4. The Big Field, by Mike Lupica
5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules, by Jeff Kinney

Teens are Talking About

1. California Dreaming, by Zoey Dean
2. The Twilight Series, by Stephanie Meyer
3. City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare
4. Final Warning: Maximum Ride Book 4, by James Patterson
5. Clique #9: Bratfest at Tiffany's, by Lisi Harrison