14 Top environment books like Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo…

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1. Myths of the Sacred Tree

By: Moyra Caldecott

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Essential to life on earth since the beginning of time, trees hold a special place in our collectiv… read more

Similar categories in Moyra Caldecott's Myths of the Sacred Tree book and Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

  • nonfiction
  • nature

2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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3. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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4. Lace & Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens

By: Ross Gay , Aimee Nezhukumatathil

3.96

Format: 332 pages,

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5. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

6. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

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  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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7. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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  • science
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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8. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • science
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

  • audiobook
Cover of Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. Sevigny

10. Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

By: Melissa L. Sevigny

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1938, botanists Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter set off down the Colorado River, acc… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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11. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

12. World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.06

Format: 165 pages, Hardcover

From beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction--a collecti… read more

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  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"It is this way with wonder: it takes a bit of patience, and it takes putting yourself in the right place at the right time. It requires that we be curious enough to forgo our small distractions in or…"

-Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

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13. The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights and Inciting Joy is back with a new c… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I've completed another year of delights. Or maybe I should say another year of delights has completed me."

-Ross Gay, The Book of (More) Delights: Essays

Cover of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine by Uché Blackstock

14. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine

By: Uché Blackstock

4.46

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Legacy is an illuminating and stirring journey of a book.” —Ibram X. Kendi, #1 New York Times- bes… read more

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  • audiobook
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. Inciting Joy: Essays

By: Ross Gay

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"And when we catch the grave light shimmering from the tethers between us when it happens, our dying again and again in each other's presence, this falling together, it is called, this holding each ot…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

"But when we allow and expect each other to change and, even more to the point, when we witness the learning, the changing, the grieving, with curiosity and patience and care and love; when we make ro…"

-Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

16. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

17. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • race
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Cover of Birding to Change the World: A Memoir by Trish O'Kane

18. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

By: Trish O'Kane

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Feminist Bird Club's Birding for a Better World: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Nature by Sydney Anderson

19. The Feminist Bird Club's Birding for a Better World: A Guide to Finding Joy and Community in Nature

By: Sydney Anderson

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

“Through the Feminist Bird Club, Molly Adams and Sydney Golden Anderson have walked the walk of inc… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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20. How to Say Babylon

By: Safiya Sinclair

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"As I grew older, I knew I would never be his perfect Rasta daughter. I was too headstrong, too curious. Too much of myself, and not enough of him."

-Safiya Sinclair, How to Say Babylon

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21. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • ecology
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

22. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. book and Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

Cover of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

23. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • ecology
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

24. Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees

By: Aimee Nezhukumatathil

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders, a lyrical book of short essays abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Thunder Song: Essays by Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

25. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush

26. The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

By: Elizabeth Rush

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, vital book about Antarctica, climate change, and motherhood from the author of Risi… read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"It occurred to me... I ought to treat Antarctica not as a desolate outpost at the end of the earth but as a place where life begins."

-Elizabeth Rush, The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

Cover of Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and other Sensory Wonders of Nature (-) by Nancy  Lawson

27. Wildscape: Trilling Chipmunks, Beckoning Blooms, Salty Butterflies, and other Sensory Wonders of Nature (-)

By: Nancy Lawson

4.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Nancy Lawson, author of The Humane Gardener , a first-of-its-kind guide that takes readers on … read more

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  • ecology
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily  Raboteau

28. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

By: Emily Raboteau

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology by Eric Lee-Mäder

29. The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology

By: Eric Lee-Mäder

4.43

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Delve into this fascinating appreciation of milkweed, an often-overlooked plant, and discover an am… read more

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  • ecology
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin Sharkey

30. A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars

By: Erin Sharkey

4.31

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A Ms. Magazine Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in c… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World by Edward Humes

31. Total Garbage: How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal Our World

By: Edward Humes

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how indi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science

20 must-read audiobook books like Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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18 must-read audiobook books like The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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James

Percival Everett

4.54

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4.14

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