8 Best nature books like Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World by Craig Foster

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Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

By: Craig Foster

4.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests off South …

If you liked the nature plot in Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World by Craig Foster , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By: Sy Montgomery

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • memoir
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

2. Humans of New York: Stories

By: Brandon Stanton

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 2010, photographer Brandon Stanton began an ambitious project -to single-handedly … read more

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3. What Now?

By: Ann Patchett

4.67

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Based on her lauded commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College, this stirring essay by bestsell… read more

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4. 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

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"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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5. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's I Must Be Dreaming book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. 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

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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7. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • nonfiction
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8. The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

By: Karen Fine

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A tribute to our furry, feathery, scaley, and wet family members, All Creatures Great and Small mee… read more

Similar categories in Karen Fine's The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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9. The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, a radical investigation into the… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"We dig up dinosaurs to try and figure out what happened to them. Perhaps someday dinosaurs, in the form of corvids, will dig us up to figure out what happened to us."

-Jennifer Ackerman, The Bird Way: A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think

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10. Secrets of the Octopus

By: Sy Montgomery

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex anima… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Secrets of the Octopus book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • biology
  • photography
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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11. Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

By: Cade Metz

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

"This colorful page-turner puts artificial intelligence into a human perspective. Through the lives… read more

Similar categories in Cade Metz's Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • science
"It was a combination of genetics, stupidity, and bad luck, like everything else that goes wrong in life"

-Cade Metz, Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

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12. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • science
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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13. Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

By: Craig Foster

4.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests off South … read more

Similar categories in Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • biology
  • photography
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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14. Southern Man (Penn Cage, #7)

By: Greg Iles

4.15

Format: 966 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his l… read more

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15. Banana Ball: The Unbelievably True Story of the Savannah Bananas

By: Jesse Cole

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Savannah Bananas have peeled back the game of baseball and made it fun again. This is their sto… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Cole's Banana Ball: The Unbelievably True Story of the Savannah Bananas book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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16. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

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17. Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

3.67

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Ocean Yoon has never felt like much of a Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haeny… read more

Similar categories in Elaine U. Cho's Ocean's Godori book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

"She asks, "Do you ever want to go back to Mars?" "It's a weird little place," he replies. "Stuck in its ways. I feel more like a Martian when I'm not there, if that makes sense."

-Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori

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18. Devil's Kitchen

By: Candice Fox

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This tight-knit, four-person unit has worked together to save countless lives and stop out of contr… read more

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Cover of A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever by Kim Mager

19. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more

Similar categories in Kim Mager's A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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20. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

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21. Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

By: Amorina Kingdon

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call f… read more

Similar categories in Amorina Kingdon's Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water book and Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

8 best-selling memoir books like Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World by Craig Foster

Transform Your Habits

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

4.33

Transform Your Habits

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

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Transform Your Habits

I Must Be Dreaming

Roz Chast

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Other Family Doctor: A Veterinarian Explores What Animals Can Teach Us About Love, Life, and Mortality

Karen Fine

4.01

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

My Darling Dreadful Thing

Johanna van Veen

3.89

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A Good Happy Girl

Marissa Higgins

3.01

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