20 must-read memoir books like Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Rae Wynn-Grant

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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…

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1. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors

By: Carolyn Finney

4.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreati… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Finney's Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment

2. Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.06

Format: 205 pages, Hardcover

As development and subsequent habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wil… read more

Similar categories in Douglas W. Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

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3. 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

Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"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

Cover of The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle    Tometich

4. The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

By: Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Rows of orange people sit handcuffed in a beige room. One of them is my mother. When journalist … read more

Similar categories in Annabelle Tometich's The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

5. 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

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History by Karen Valby

6. The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

By: Karen Valby

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The forgotten story of a pioneering group of five Black ballerinas and their fifty-year sisterhood,… read more

Similar categories in Karen Valby's The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon

7. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Birding to Change the World: A Memoir by Trish O'Kane

8. 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 Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World by Joe Roman

9. Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

By: Joe Roman

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A “fascinating” exploration (Elizabeth Kolbert) of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by ani… read more

Similar categories in Joe Roman's Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Jackson Taffa

10. Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jackson Taffa

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York T… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Jackson Taffa's Whiskey Tender: A Memoir book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"My Laguna grandmother, Esther, is the one who taught me that a deep intimacy with a homeland requires three things: sensory experiences of particular geographies, a storied history of the trails, and…"

-Deborah Jackson Taffa, Whiskey Tender: A Memoir

Cover of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson

11. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Tomlinson's Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • audiobook
Cover of Coming Home by Brittney Griner

12. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Griner's Coming Home book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of Picasso's Lovers by Jeanne Mackin

13. Picasso's Lovers

By: Jeanne Mackin

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tangled and vividly intimate portrait of the women caught in Picasso’s charismatic orbit through … read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Mackin's Picasso's Lovers book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
Cover of Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger

14. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Kaltenegger's Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of We Loved It All: A Memory of Life by Lydia Millet

15. 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 Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences by Jedidiah Jenkins

16. Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

By: Jedidiah Jenkins

4.03

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

When his mother, Barbara, turns seventy, Jedidiah Jenkins is reminded of a sobering fact: Our pare… read more

Similar categories in Jedidiah Jenkins's Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"In my midthirties, I realized that my parents would die soon. Not like a terminal illness. I just mean in the flow of time. It hit me hardest when my mother turned seventy. I did a quick bit of math.…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

"I wondered about my friendship with my mom. Is it friendship? How can it be? Friendship is chosen. Friendship is discovered. But a mother and a son have a bond that is necessary. If the son exists, t…"

-Jedidiah Jenkins, Mother, Nature: A 5,000-Mile Journey to Discover if a Mother and Son Can Survive Their Differences

Cover of Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family by Mark  Daley

17. Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family

By: Mark Daley

4.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A candid, unforgettable, and often hilarious memoir of two dads daunting quest for fatherhood. A… read more

Similar categories in Mark Daley's Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Oye by Melissa Mogollon

18. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
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 Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • african american
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily  Raboteau

20. 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 Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

21. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin

22. 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 Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World by Miriam Darlington

23. Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World

By: Miriam Darlington

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A plan formed in my mind. I would explore the places in this land that hid my grail. I would spend … read more

Similar categories in Miriam Darlington's Otter Country: An Unexpected Adventure in the Natural World book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Omega Farm: A Memoir by Martha McPhee

24. Omega Farm: A Memoir

By: Martha McPhee

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist—a candid, riveting account of her complicated,… read more

Similar categories in Martha McPhee's Omega Farm: A Memoir book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist by Jasmin  Graham

25. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more

Similar categories in Jasmin Graham's Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian by Amy Attas

26. Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian

By: Amy Attas

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hilarious, jaw-dropping, and heartfelt stories from New York City’s premier “house-call veterinaria… read more

Similar categories in Amy Attas's Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Summers End (A Shady Hollow Mystery, #5) by Juneau Black

27. Summers End (A Shady Hollow Mystery, #5)

By: Juneau Black

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A unique take on dark academia, featuring everyone's favorite vulpine sleuth, Vera Vixen. It's lat… read more

Similar categories in Juneau Black's Summers End (A Shady Hollow Mystery, #5) book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

28. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth by Christine Figgener

29. My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth

By: Christine Figgener

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

“A wonderful book that will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us.”—DR. JANE GOODALL … read more

Similar categories in Christine Figgener's My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"Optimismus ist eine Entscheidung. Mich selbst würde ich als kritisch-optimistisch bezeichnen: Ich glaube fest daran, dass es in Zukunft besser werden kann – ansonsten könnte ich mir gleich die Kugel …"

-Christine Figgener, My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth

Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

30. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kiser's Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

31. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

Similar categories in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Lovely One: A Memoir book and Rae Wynn-Grant's Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

27 Top audiobook books like Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Rae Wynn-Grant

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

Annabelle Tometich

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Swans of Harlem: Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

Karen Valby

4.31

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

James Patterson

3.92

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Ruth Reichl

3.84

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