Beautiful No-Mow Yards: 50 Amazing Lawn Alternatives

I adore this book. Anyone who has ever talked to me in person about gardening can tell you how much I abhor America's slavish devotion to grass, so this book is just a feast for my eyes and soul. Hadden does a great job of finding very diverse examples of no-mow yards, both in terms of geography and appearance, and really mixes good practical advice in with the inspiration. I still have way more grass than I'd like, but have been using this as a reference book to get the yard headed in the right direction.