Botanic Book Buddies: Book Buddies meet on the second Wednesday of even-numbered months at noon in the Lawn House.
All are welcome. No need to be a member of the book club or even have read the current book.
2024 Books
Feb. The Land Where the Lemons Grow by Helena Atlee
Apr. Herbarium::The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants by Barbara Theirs
June Second Nature by Michael Pollan
Aug. Flower Confidential by Amy Stewart
Oct. Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
Dec. Soil: the Story of a Black Mother’s Garden. by Camille Dungy
2023 Books
April 12: What A Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses by
Daniel Chamovitz
June 14: The Plant Hunter by Cassandra Leah Quave
August 9: The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most
Essential Native Trees by Douglas Tallamy
October 11: The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
December 13: Fen, Bog and Swamp by Annie Proulx
2022 Books
February It’s A Jungle Up There: More tales from the treetops
By Margaret Lowman
April The Private Life of Plants By David Attenborough
June The Songs of Trees: Stories from nature’s great
connectors By David George Haskell
August Upstream: Selected essays By Mary Oliver
October Entangled Life By Merlin Sheldrake
2021 Books
February The Forgotten Peninsula by Joseph Wood Krutch
April The Brother Gardeners by Andrea Wulf
June The Outermost House by Henry Beston
August A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
October Onwards and Upwards by Katherine S. White
December Plant Portraits the Califonia Legacy by A. R. Valentien (Review by Mike Blanco)
December In December, we will review one of the following classics. Please let
me know what YOUR choice is:
My First Summer In The Sierra by John Muir or
Henry David Thoreau: Walden or
Charles Darwin: The Voyage Of The Beagle
2020 Books
The Botanic Book Buddies have chosen their books for 2020.
We had a great response to our request for suggestions for books for next year. Several books had been read in recent years and because we only read 6 books each year, I have listed one other title which might interest some of you.
February Two for the Far North by Margaret Murie ((biography/novel)
April The Forgotten Peninsula: A Naturalist in Baja California by Joseph Wood Krutch (history)
June Braiding Sweet Grass by Robin Kimmerer
August Hippie Food by Jonathan Kauffman
October The King of California by Mark Arax & Rick Wartzman (biography/history)
December Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (novel)
The Fate of Food by Amanda Little is highly recommended by Mike Blanco
2019 Books
February 13 Overstory by Richard Powers
April 10 Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
June 12 The Forest Unseen by George Haskell
August 14 The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel or Monk of Mokha by Dave Eggers
October 9 Choosing books for 2020.
December The Plant Messiah by Carlos Magdelena
Books for 2020 will be chosen at the December 2019 meeting
2018 Books
February Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
April Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
June The Nature Fix by Florence Williams
August Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
October The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleden
2017 Books
February 8 Sowing Seeds of Wonder (History of Larabees) by Sally
Sandler who will attend that meeting and let us know the details of
writing and researching the book.
April 12 Unstoppable by Bill Nye
June 14 Small Wonders by Barbara Kingsolver
August 9 Stopping the Road by Jack Fisher
October 11 or possibly the 18 (because of plant sale) West With the
Night by Beryl Markham
December 13 The Human Age by Dianne Ackerman