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. The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry, by Kathleen Finn
2. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun, by Peter Godwin
3. Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin
4. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah
5. Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal, by Jonathan Mooney

Thrill-Seekers Club

1. In the Woods, by Tana French
2. The Pure in Heart, by Susan Hill
3. DieWith Me, by Elena Forbes
4. Christopher's Ghosts, by Charles McCarry
5. The Broken Shore, by Peter Temple