 | The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £0.01 Enter Florida, a parallel universe of eccentric people devoted to their (sometimes illegal) passions.
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 | Flora's Orchids by Ned Nash
Buy new: £28.00 / Used from: £16.45 An incredible piece of work; comprehensive and with beautiful photographs.
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 | The Cloud Garden: A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture by Tom Hart Dyke
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The exciting true account of an orchid hunting expedition in the Darién Gap gone seriously wrong.
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 | The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids: Over 1100 Species Illustrated and Identified
Buy used from: £19.99 Originally published by Timber Press, this is the most authoritative encyclopedia on orchids around.
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 | Orchid Fever (Methuen non-fiction) by Eric Hansen
Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £0.01 Eric Hansen uncovers the shocking details about the inner workings of CITES and orchid conservation.
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 | Ultimate Orchid (American Horticultural Society Practical Guides) by Thomas J. Sheehan
Buy used from: £2.87 Luscious photography and fascinating text. A good introduction to the subject.
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 | Orchids and Their Conservation by Harold Koopowitz
Buy used from: £7.05 Difficult to obtain, but a remarkable treatise on orchid conservation and CITES legislature.
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 | Growing Orchids - Successful Gardening Indoors and Out: An Illustrated Encyclopedia and Practical Gardening Guide by Brian Rittershausen
Buy used from: £7.99 A really useful grower's manual: sensible advice applicable to most areas of the world.
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 | Introducing Orchids by Brian Rittershausen
Buy used from: £3.21 Some portraits of state-of-the-art modern hybrids, as well as some classic beauties.
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 | Growing Orchids in Your Garden by Robert G. M. Friend
Buy new: £19.13 / Used from: £10.75 Terrific volume on growing a variety of orchids in your garden. Ingenious.
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 | Orchid Grower's Companion: Cultivation, Propagation, and Varieties by David P. Banks
Buy used from: £94.95 Pretty good coverage, good photography and text, great book to own.
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 | The World's Most Beautiful Orchids by Greg Allikas
Buy new: £15.23 / Used from: £6.90 Ravishing photographs from the official show photographer of the American Orchid Society.
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