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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday from That Artsy Reader Girl<\/a> invites us to pick a word and find ten books where it’s contained in the title. April and May are the months when I spend a lot of time planting (and, this year, watering), so I thought I’d share ten books from my to-be-read list that contain the word “garden” in one form or another:<\/p>\n

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  1. In the Night Garden<\/em> by Catherynne Valente<\/li>\n
  2. The Winter Garden Mystery<\/em> by Carola Dunn<\/li>\n
  3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of<\/em> The Secret Garden by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina<\/li>\n
  4. Down the Garden Path<\/em> by Beverley Nichols<\/li>\n
  5. Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education<\/em> by Michael Pollan<\/li>\n
  6. Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game<\/em> by John Thorn<\/li>\n
  7. Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens<\/em> by Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil<\/li>\n
  8. Garden Spells<\/em> by Sarah Allen Addison (I think I picked this one up at a library sale when I was staying in Connecticut and left it with my mother.)<\/li>\n
  9. The Night Gardener<\/em> by George Pelecanos (Goodreads informs me I own this book, which is a surprise to me.)<\/li>\n
  10. The White Garden<\/em> by Stephanie Barron<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Have you read any of these? Do you have other gardeny reads you’d recommend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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