18 must-read nonfiction books like The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush

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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…

"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

"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

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Thin Skin: Essays

By: Jenn Shapland

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

From a National Book Award finalist and a powerful literary mind, an incisive new work examining ca… read more

Similar categories in Jenn Shapland's Thin Skin: Essays book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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2. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Jamison's Splinters book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

3. 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

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

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

4. 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

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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5. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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6. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • nature
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7. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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8. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • nature
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

9. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Cover of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

10. 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

Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • nature
  • history
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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11. We Loved It All: A Memory of Life

By: Lydia Millet

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A personal evocation of the glory of nature, our vexed position in the animal kingdom, and the diff… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's We Loved It All: A Memory of Life book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging by Lauren Markham

12. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

By: Lauren Markham

4.08

Format: 263 pages, ebook

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
Cover of You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limon

13. 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

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

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

14. 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

Similar categories in Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Cacophony of Bone by Kerri ní Dochartaigh

15. Cacophony of Bone

By: Kerri ní Dochartaigh

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway… read more

Similar categories in Kerri ní Dochartaigh's Cacophony of Bone book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

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

16. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • history
  • memoir
  • travel
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • 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 Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit

17. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.98

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Cover of Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily  Raboteau

18. 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

Similar categories in Emily Raboteau's Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • climate change
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin

19. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

By: Manjula Martin

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural hi… read more

Similar categories in Manjula Martin's The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • history
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty by Gina Rushton

20. The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty

By: Gina Rushton

3.97

Format: 217 pages, Kindle Edition

Our Culture Magazine Best Book of 2023 “Rushton's work is generous, thoughtful, and honest, taking … read more

Similar categories in Gina Rushton's The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
Cover of Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea by Hannah Stowe

21. Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea

By: Hannah Stowe

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"A sensuous book, more felt than described, more described than explained, more painted than part … read more

Similar categories in Hannah Stowe's Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea book and Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

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Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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Naomi Klein

4.22

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Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

Camille T. Dungy

4.19

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Lauren Markham

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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4.54

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4.14

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