Trees

The Tree Book: A Practical Guide to Selecting and Maintaining the Best Trees for Your Yard and Garden (2004) by Jeff Meyer

Author's Favorite Trees:

Live Oak
Bur Oak
Blue Spruce
Sugar Maple
Sycamore
Black Gum
Flowering Crab Apple
False Cypress
Southern Magnolia

Ten Best Bang-for-Your-Buck Trees:

Bur Oak
Red Maple
Sargent Crab Apple
Fraser Fir
River Birch
Japanese Maple
Bald Cypress
Lombardy Poplar
Norway Spruce
Kousa Dogwood

Conjunction of shade-tolerant and drought-tolerant lists:

European beech
Ohio buckeye
Northern catalpa

A very comprehensive book with some curious omissions:

Butternut
Kentucky Coffee Tree
Medlar