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)
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
13.Small Strawbale: Natural Homes, Projects & Designs
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
24.The Rammed Earth House: Revised Edition
25.Home Work: Handbuilt Shelter
