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Books and Reading lists

Good Gardenin book We have more than 80,000 titles altogether. Our collections cover garden history, garden design, practical gardening, botany, horticultural science, botanical art and much, much  more.

Reading lists

The RHS Lindley Library produces a number of reading lists on gardening topics. These are selected from the Library catalogue and are a snapshot of books in the collection at that time.

You can find examples of reading lists below:

The Library also produces booklists that track new additions in selected subjects. The lists are automatically updated when a new book is added to the collections. You can find a full list of subjects in our Library catalogue ‘Books about…’ section.

Printed collections

Botanical printFind further details about our printed collections held at:

Lindley Library, London
Lindley Library, Wisley
Harlow Carr, Hyde Hall and Rosemoor Garden libraries

Our online catalogue contains details of the books in our libraries.

View our list of this month’s new titles at Wisley by searching the catalogue and click on 'New Books This Month'.

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How to request lists

If you can’t find a list on your chosen subject, you can request one from library@rhs.org.uk or compile one yourself by searching our Library catalogue.

You can also use the Library catalogue ‘New books’ section to see lists of books added to our main libraries this month.