14 best-selling animals books like Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris

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Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

By: Emma Marris

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relatio…

"The only way to really stop life from changing is to kill it."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"The only way to really stop life from changing is to kill it."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"I only know one place in the United States where 'natural' wolf death is the norm: Yellowstone National Park."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"I only know one place in the United States where 'natural' wolf death is the norm: Yellowstone National Park."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

If you liked the animals plot in Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins

By: Jonathan Balcombe

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can the… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Balcombe's What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

2. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

By: Carl Safina

3.00

Format: 81 pages,

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3. The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses

By: Peter Brannen

3.59

Format: 464 pages, ebook

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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 Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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5. The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

Similar categories in Dan Egan's The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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6. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."

-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

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7. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman

8. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

By: Oliver Milman

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more

Similar categories in Oliver Milman's The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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9. 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

Similar categories in Trish O'Kane's Birding to Change the World: A Memoir book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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10. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

By: Michelle Nijhuis

4.10

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Nijhuis's Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World by Jeff Goodell

11. The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World

By: Jeff Goodell

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

What if Atlantis wasn't a myth but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the gl… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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

12. 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 Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • 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.

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13. Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse

By: Dave Goulson

4.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Insects are essential for life as we know it. As they become more scarce, our world will slowly gri… read more

Similar categories in Dave Goulson's Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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14. Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change

By: Thor Hanson

4.06

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

*A  New York Times  Editor's Choice pick *Shortlisted for the 2022 Pacific   Northwest Book Awards … read more

Similar categories in Thor Hanson's Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care by Kelly Hayes

15. Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care

By: Kelly Hayes

4.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let T… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Hayes's Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are by Carl Safina

16. Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

By: Carl Safina

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Becoming Wild offers a glimpse into cultures among non-human animals through looks at the lives of … read more

Similar categories in Carl Safina's Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it."

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

"Shrinking forests, melting ice, plowed grasslands, raging fires, drying rivers, and dying corals — diminished of all the major habitats, proxy for all who live therein, means that the numbers of free…"

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

"We might pity hunter-gatherers for their stuck simplicity, but we would err. They held extensive knowledge, knew deep secrets of their lands and creatures. And they experienced rich and rewarding liv…"

-Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are

Cover of The Quickening: Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth by Elizabeth Rush

17. 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 Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • 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 Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World by Emma Marris

18. Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

By: Emma Marris

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relatio… read more

Similar categories in Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • wildlife
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"The only way to really stop life from changing is to kill it."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"I only know one place in the United States where 'natural' wolf death is the norm: Yellowstone National Park."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"It was when I moved to Oregon in 2013 that I really began to examine how conservation did and did not make the lives of individual animals better."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

"But 'wild' animals in the twenty-first century are not truly independent of humanity. In fact, today, I am not sure there are any 'wild animals' left."

-Emma Marris, Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Cover of Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Rae Wynn-Grant

19. Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

By: Rae Wynn-Grant

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this vulnerable and urgent memoir, Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant explores the ever-shifting relationship be… read more

Similar categories in Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear by Erica  Berry

20. Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

By: Erica Berry

3.55

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An original and probing debut work of nonfiction by a brilliant new writer, rooted in her years-lon… read more

Similar categories in Erica Berry's Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I see myself as a kaleidoscope of selves, wheeling through that poppy studded countryside, the colour from one self always tinting the colour of another. No barriers between them. Only the truth of t…"

-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

"With both the last and the first wolf, I wonder, did you know just how alone you were? Beneath this question, lay the other one. The same one that now flickered in my chest as I travelled alone for i…"

-Erica Berry, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear

Cover of Nursery Earth: The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World by Danna Staaf

21. Nursery Earth: The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World

By: Danna Staaf

4.05

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Monarchs of the Sea, a first-of-its-kind journey into the hidden world of baby a… read more

Similar categories in Danna Staaf's Nursery Earth: The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World book and Emma Marris's Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

  • audiobook
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

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3.50

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4.45

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4.23

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Laura Bates

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4.05

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