Arboretum Book Club

Join us to discuss books that open a window to the great outdoors! 

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Join us to discuss books that open a window to the great outdoors! 

It’s free with admission and open to anyone who read the book, but please register in advance for the session you will be attending. Please leave small children at home, but older ones with interest in the topic may attend, especially if they’ve read the book with you. Didn’t quite finish the book? As long as you don’t mind spoilers, come anyways and discuss the bits you got to.

Limited copies are available in our libraries at the Garden and Arboretum, but if we are out, please consider supporting your local public library by checking out their ebook, audiobook, or physical copies! 

Want more book club goodness? Check out our Botanical Book Club for more books and discussion.

Arboretum Book Club Reads: Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Price: Free with admission

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Marisha Sullivan

Holden Forests & Gardens Librarian

If you’d like to read some of the same books we’ve read in the past, here’s our list of previously read books!

  • In Defense of Plants by Matt Candeias
  • This is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
  • Good Food Revolution by Will Allen
  • Lessons from Plants by Beronda L Montgomery
  • Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn
  • Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley
  • Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
  • Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden by Camille Dungy
  • Better Living Through Birding by Christian Cooper
  • Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  • Plain Vanilla Murder by Susan Wittig Albert
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