The Indie Gardening & Nature Bestseller List

Created 07/22/2008 - 11:00pm

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