Beekeeping Guides & Books I Like (USA)
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This blog is about sorting our beekeeping heads out as much as looking after the bees, so with this in mind, I thought I would start to list and review the best beekeeping books and other books I have read for people looking to regain their sanity.
Best Beekeeping Guides (USA)
There are many beekeeping guides. I have just chosen what I believe to be the most comprehensive, the best guide for a novice and a good natural beekeeping guide. If you have written or used a beekeeping book and want it listed please use the comment form below.
Collins Beekeeper's Bible | Beekeeping For Dummies | The Practical Beekeeper: Beekeeping Naturally |
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Most comprehensive beekeeping book. 416 pages | One of the best introduction to beekeeping. 392 pages | Best guide to low intervention beekeeping. 629 pages |
The guide which goes with the beehaus is a good introduction to beekeeping and is available as a FREE download (and you don’t need to give your email address).
Best Beekeeping Stories (Non Fiction)
The Bad Beekeepers Club | The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America | Bad Beekeeping |
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Very funny book by Bill Turnbull (UK TV breakfast presenter) | A non-fiction portrait of an unusual fourth-generation beekeeper who travels the West with 10,000 beehives, making honey, pollinating crops, and struggling to keep his bees alive in the middle of a strange and sobering honey bee die-off. | The author buys a bee ranch and makes a million pounds of honey. |
Best Books About Bees
The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism | The Bee Garden | A World Without Bees |
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250 excellent photos and a milestone in bee literature | Invaluable aid to the design of an attractive bee garden. | A moving, enjoyable, well-researched homage to the honeybee. |
Best Books For Regaining Some Sanity
These three books represent the best, accessible philosophy and psychology I have read.
Status Anxiety | The Romantic Movement | The Road Less Travelled |
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If you feel inadequate, and everyone around you appears to be more successful – read this book. | If you’re a romantic or a commitment phobe. Or just need some words of wisdom in matters of the heart - read this book. | I had never looked inside myself, until this book! Inspirational. |
Best Books With Crazy Characters
We can probably all identify a bit with the characters in these books that I love. If you need an emotional boost, please read them.
A Fraction Of The Whole | The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared | Hector & The Search For Happiness |
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Three crazy characters upset an entire continent. Incorporating death, parenting (good and bad kinds), one labyrinth, first love, a handbook for criminals, a scheme to make everyone rich and an explosive suggestion box. | An inspirational 100 year old man has an adventure. | A psychiatrist is very good at treating patients in real need of his help. But many people he sees have no health problems: they re just deeply dissatisfied with their lives. |
I hope you enjoy some of the books above as much as I have. Some of the secrets of life can be found within the pages as well as within the beehive.
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Got “Honey-Maker” by Rosanna Mattingly for XMas. Wonderful accessible explanations of how the worker bees do it. I love this book!