My husband Kelly has a massive website on all aspects of natural building, greenhomebuilding.com and a smaller one, earthbagbuilding.com. The other day I got curious what the most popular books on green home building were, so I downloaded the stats for four years of what had sold on Amazon through his sites. Here they are, in the order of popularity, and the links take you to Amazon. #25 is a major favorite of mine, and not just because our earthbag house is in it. I used to be a librarian and I do love doing book lists!

1.Earthbag Building: The Tools, Tricks and Techniques (Natural Building Series)

2.The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar Living Book

3.Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs

4.Building With Cob: A Step-by-step Guide

5.Earth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable…

6.The Stonebuilder’s Primer: A Step-By-Step Guide for Owner-Builders

7.Cordwood Building: The State of the Art (Natural Building Series)

8.Earthship: How to Build Your Own, Vol. 1

9.The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling

10.Adobe: Build It Yourself, Revised Edition

11.The Cob Builders Handbook: You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home

12.The New Ecological Home: A Complete Guide to Green Building Options (Chelsea Green Guides for Homeowners)

13.Small Strawbale: Natural Homes, Projects & Designs

14.More Straw Bale Building: A Complete Guide to Designing and Building with Straw (Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series)

15.The Good House Book: A Common-Sense Guide to Alternative Homebuilding Solar * Straw Bale * Cob * Adobe * Earth Plaster * & More (A Natural Home Book)

16.Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own

17.Serious Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates (Real Goods Solar Living Book)

18.Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables

19.The Owner-Built Adobe House

20.Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings: Design and Construction

21.The Fifty Dollar and Up Underground House Book

22.Build Your Own underground Root Cellar

23.The Tire House Book

24.The Rammed Earth House: Revised Edition

25.Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter