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Beekeeping Books
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Beekeeping for Dummies (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,690 ratings — published 2002
The Backyard Beekeeper: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Bees in Your Yard and Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,134 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 4.52 — 742 ratings — published 2010
Natural Beekeeping: Organic Approaches to Modern Apiculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.94 — 319 ratings — published 2007
Honeybee Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,942 ratings — published 2010
The Beekeeper's Handbook (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.35 — 400 ratings — published 1978
Top-Bar Beekeeping: Organic Practices for Honeybee Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.40 — 324 ratings — published 2012
Langstroth's Hive and the Honey-Bee: The Classic Beekeeper's Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.01 — 219 ratings — published 1857
A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them – A Melodious Beekeeping Memoir and Nature Journal from the Missouri Ozarks (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,372 ratings — published 1988
Honey Bee Biology and Beekeeping, Revised Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.50 — 104 ratings — published 2000
The Practical Beekeeper: Beekeeping Naturally (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.49 — 147 ratings — published 2011
First Lessons in Beekeeping (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.26 — 282 ratings — published 2007
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 — 2,354 ratings — published 2011
Storey's Guide to Keeping Honey Bees: Honey Production, Pollination, Health (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.13 — 341 ratings — published 2010
The Secret Life of Bees (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,365,914 ratings — published 2001
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.98 — 760 ratings — published
Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey--The Sweet Liquid Gold that Seduced the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,028 ratings — published 2005
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,107 ratings — published 2018
The Bee Book: Discover the Wonder of Bees and How to Protect Them for Generations to Come (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.46 — 392 ratings — published 2016
The ABC and XYZ of Bee Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.10 — 84 ratings — published 1877
The Beekeeper's Problem Solver: 100 Common Problems Explored and Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.65 — 69 ratings — published 2015
The Thinking Beekeeper: A Guide to Natural Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.16 — 180 ratings — published 2012
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 — 56 ratings — published 2011
The Buzz about Bees: Biology of a Superorganism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.47 — 197 ratings — published 2007
Mad Honey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.06 — 599,972 ratings — published 2022
The Beekeeper of Aleppo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.16 — 184,627 ratings — published 2019
Song of Increase: Listening to the Wisdom of Honeybees for Kinder Beekeeping and a Better World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.34 — 276 ratings — published 2014
Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.31 — 143 ratings — published
The ABC and Xyz of Bee Culture: An Encyclopedia of Beekeeping (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.31 — 39 ratings — published 1990
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 — 432 ratings — published 2009
Sweetness and Light: The Mysterious History of the Honeybee (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.69 — 393 ratings — published 2004
The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.72 — 382 ratings — published 2004
Beekeeping At Buckfast Abbey (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.32 — 66 ratings — published 1987
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,122 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 4.10 — 305 ratings — published 2015
The Bees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,876 ratings — published 2014
Increase Essentials (Perfect Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.12 — 56 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 — 331 ratings — published 2013
The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.31 — 333 ratings — published 1985
Honey and Venom: Confessions of an Urban Beekeeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.54 — 622 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 — 13,022 ratings — published 2019
Hive Management: A Seasonal Guide for Beekeepers (Storey's Down-To-Earth Guides)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.74 — 82 ratings — published 1991
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 — 365 ratings — published 2016
At the Hive Entrance (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.15 — 26 ratings — published 2010
Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.77 — 160 ratings — published 2005
Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 3.60 — 406 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 3.98 — 165 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 — 96 ratings — published 2008
Guide to Bees and Honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as beekeeping)
avg rating 4.29 — 42 ratings — published 1976
“I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.”
― A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them – A Melodious Beekeeping Memoir and Nature Journal from the Missouri Ozarks
― A Book Of Bees: And How to Keep Them – A Melodious Beekeeping Memoir and Nature Journal from the Missouri Ozarks
“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












