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?
- The New Self-Sufficient Gardener, by John Seymour
- A Pattern Garden: the Essential Elements of Garden Making, by Valerie Easton
- Ask Ciscoe, by Ciscoe Morris
- Perennials, by Roger Phillips and Martyn Rix
- Native Ferns, Mosses, and Grasses, by William Cullina
Cookbooks
- The Flexitarian Table, by Peter Berley
- Pure Dessert, by Alice Medrich
- Blue Eggs and Yellow Tomatoes: Recipes From a Modern Kitchen Garden, by Jeanne Kelley
- Mexican Everyday, by Rick Bayless
- Washington Wines and Wineries, by Paul Gregutt
Best Book Club Bets
- Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
- The Thirteenth Tale, by Diane Setterfield
- The Echo Maker, by Richard Powers
- The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, by Dinaw Mengestu
- Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
Memoir Madness
- Audacity of Hope, by Barack Obama
- Infidel, by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman
- When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir of Africa, by Peter Goodwin
- Mellon: An American Life, by David Cannadine
Mom's Time Out
- I Feel Bad About my Neck, by Nora Ephron
- Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert
- Friday Night Knitting Club, by Kate Jacobs
- Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, by Thomas McNamee
- Loving Frank, by Nancy Horan
Thrill-Seekers Club
- Various Haunts of Men, by Susan Hill
- The Woods, by Harlan Coben
- Dark Star, by Alan Furst
- The Machiavelli Covenant, by Allan Folsom
- The Accomplice, by Elizabeth Ironside
Picturebooks for Kids
- Fancy Nancy Bonjour, Butterfly, by Jane O'Connor
- The Fish Who Cried Wolf, by Julia Donaldson
- The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, by Mo Willems
- Help Me, Mr. Mutt, by Janet Stevens
- Don't Bump the Glump, by Shel Silverstein
Middle Grade Fiction Favorites
- The Ranger's Apprentice, Book 4: The Battle for Skandia, by John Flanagan
- The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, by Jeanne Birdsall
- Nim at Sea, by Wendy Orr
- The Big Field, by Mike Lupica
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Roderick Rules, by Jeff Kinney
Teens are Talking About
- California Dreaming, by Zoey Dean
- The Twilight Series, by Stephanie Meyer
- City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare
- Final Warning: Maximum Ride Book 4, by James Patterson
- Clique #9: Bratfest at Tiffany's, by Lisi Harrison








