My current reading list includes five books by Gene Logsdon. I liked All Flesh is Grass, which is about raising grassfed livestock so well that I checked out some of his other books. This guy is so funny...he really cracks me up while still having very useful things to say. For example, on the topic of public hysteria regarding certain plants or plant parts being poisonous:

For instance, there is enough nicotine, more than enough, in a pack of cigarettes to kill you if you drank it all at once- which is certainly an excellent argument for not smoking. However, one pack of the awful things is not going to kill you even if you inhale every puff.