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My previous Thanksgiving freebie posts were about Native American Reads, What I’m Thankful For, Bookish Memories, Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Books, and Books Set During Thanksgiving.
This annual prompt continues to be a bit of a stumper as I don’t actually celebrate Thanksgiving unless you count making a fancy meal to celebrate the end of the growing season as part of this tradition!
Some of the harvests were not very good this year in Canada due to things like drought, the dry, warm winter much of the country had in 2023 and 2024, and unpredictable swings in temperatures last winter and spring that killed off a lot of buds and vulnerable plants while also allowing more pest species to survive the winter than normal. Food prices are higher now due in part to this.
My hope is that next year will be better. In the meantime, here are ten books that are directly or indirectly about harvesting crops. Several of them include puns because I love puns.
1. Chicken Culprit (Backyard Farming Mystery, #1) by Vikki Walton
2.At the Edge Of The Orchard by Tracy Chevalier
3. The Silence of the Llamas (Black Sheep Knitting Mysteries, #5) by Anne Canadeo
4. The Martian by Andy Weir
(Yes, there is farming and harvests on Mars in this book, believe it or not!)
5.Fruit of All Evil (A Farmers’ Market Mystery, #2) by Paige Shelton
6. Strega Nona’s Harvest by Tomie dePaola
7. A Streak of Bad Cluck (Bought-the-Farm Mystery #3) by Ellen Riggs
8. The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
9. Going Organic Can Kill You (A Blossom Valley Mystery #1) by Staci McLaughlin
10. The Almond Picker by Simonetta Agnello Hornby
I think that was the best and memorable bit of The Martian for me, the fact that he managed to farm and harvest.