A Place of My Own
 A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder was Michael Pollan's second book after Second Nature: A Gardener's Education (1991). In 2008 it was re-released and re-titled as A Place of My Own: The Architecture of Daydreams.The book begins by outlining how Michael reached the decision to build a writers house and to build it himself. The second chapter covers the site selection process.