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Beekeeping Books
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Beekeeping for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,646 ratings — published 2002
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,114 ratings — published 2005
The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses (The Backyard Naturalist Series)
by (shelved 34 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.51 — 732 ratings — published 2010
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.94 — 315 ratings — published 2007
Honeybee Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,863 ratings — published 2010
The Beekeeper's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.35 — 394 ratings — published 1978
Top-Bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.39 — 323 ratings — published 2012
Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.01 — 214 ratings — published 1857
Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Revised Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.50 — 103 ratings — published 2000
The Practical Beekeeper: Beekeeping Naturally (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.48 — 145 ratings — published 2011
A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,299 ratings — published 1988
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.98 — 724 ratings — published
The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,329 ratings — published 2011
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees: Honey Production, Pollination, Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.12 — 331 ratings — published 2010
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,347,504 ratings — published 2001
Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,016 ratings — published 2005
First Lessons in Beekeeping (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.24 — 273 ratings — published 2007
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,055 ratings — published 2018
The Thinking Beekeeper: A Guide to Natural Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.14 — 179 ratings — published 2012
The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.10 — 83 ratings — published 1877
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.32 — 136 ratings — published
The Bee Book: Discover the Wonder of Bees and How to Protect Them for Generations to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.45 — 374 ratings — published 2016
The Beekeeper's Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.71 — 65 ratings — published 2015
Better Beekeeping: The Ultimate Guide to Keeping Stronger Colonies and Healthier, More Productive Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.04 — 55 ratings — published 2011
The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.48 — 198 ratings — published 2007
Mad Honey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.07 — 569,062 ratings — published 2022
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.16 — 175,655 ratings — published 2019
The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.32 — 331 ratings — published 1985
Plan Bee: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Hardest-Working Creatures on the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.81 — 426 ratings — published 2009
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.69 — 389 ratings — published 2004
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.72 — 369 ratings — published 2004
Beekeeping At Buckfast Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.32 — 65 ratings — published 1987
Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.36 — 262 ratings — published 2014
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,060 ratings — published 2018
Beeswax Alchemy: How to Make Your Own Soap, Candles, Balms, Creams, and Salves from the Hive (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.09 — 298 ratings — published 2015
Increase Essentials (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.09 — 54 ratings — published 2014
Homegrown Honey Bees: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping Your First Year, from Hiving to Honey Harvest (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.17 — 325 ratings — published 2013
The ABC and Xyz of Bee Culture: An Encyclopedia of Beekeeping (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.31 — 39 ratings — published 1990
Queenspotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.60 — 274 ratings — published
Bee People and the Bugs They Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.96 — 426 ratings — published
Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.55 — 605 ratings — published 2020
The Honey Bus: A Memoir of Loss, Courage and a Girl Saved by Bees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,314 ratings — published 2019
100 Plants to Feed the Bees: Provide a Healthy Habitat to Help Pollinators Thrive (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.32 — 356 ratings — published 2016
The Bees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.71 — 43,648 ratings — published 2014
Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.78 — 157 ratings — published 2005
The Backyard Beekeeper's Honey Handbook: A Guide to Creating, Harvesting, and Cooking with Natural Honeys (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.19 — 64 ratings — published 2009
Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.60 — 403 ratings — published 2009
The Hive and the Honey Bee (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published 1992
The Sacred Bee in Ancient Times and Folklore (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.00 — 162 ratings — published 1937
The Barefoot Beekeeper : A simple, sustainable approach to small-scale beekeeping top bar hives (softcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.15 — 97 ratings — published 2008
“...she’d found she couldn’t bring herself to kill any of her bees, which was the system all the northern demesnes used, and so had to get them through the winter somehow. She’d been cold that winter herself, after wrapping up her most exposed hives in all the blankets she had.”
― Chalice
― Chalice
“But her curiosity got the better of her and at last she went back to where she’d left a big shallow basin of milk only the day before…and found the surface of the milk invisible under a carpet of her bees. “Bees don’t drink milk,” she said to them. When they lifted and flew away the basin was empty and clean.”
― Chalice
― Chalice












