12 Best memoir books like The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary by Melissa Harrison

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The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

By: Melissa Harrison

4.21

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, followi…

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1. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more

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2. Impact of Evidence

By: Carol Carnac

4.11

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Near St. Brynneys in the Welsh border country, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, a… read more

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  • british literature
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3. The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Lost Spells book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells

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4. The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal

By: Horatio Clare

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

As November stubs out the glow of autumn and the days tighten into shorter hours, winter’s occupati… read more

Similar categories in Horatio Clare's The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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5. Diary of a Young Naturalist

By: Dara McAnulty

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more

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  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

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6. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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7. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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8. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

Similar categories in Guy Shrubsole's The Lost Rainforests of Britain book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • audiobook
  • british literature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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9. Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

By: Lucy Mangan

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Mangan's Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Each book is a world entire. You're going to have to take more than one pass at it."

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

"The intensity of childhod reading, the instant and complete absorption in a book - a good book, a bad book, in any kind of book - is something I would give much to recapture"

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

"The philosopher and psychologist Riccardo Manzotti describes the process of reading and rereading as creating both locks and keys with which to open them; it shows you an area of life you didn't even…"

-Lucy Mangan, Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading

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10. Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival

By: Alice Vincent

3.84

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Women have always gardened, but our stories have been buried with our work. Alice Vincent is on a q… read more

Similar categories in Alice Vincent's Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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11. Bridges to Burn (Detective Clare Mackay #8)

By: Marion Todd

4.34

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

DI Clare Mackay is called to Albany High, where the body of a girl has been found. A suspected suic… read more

Similar categories in Marion Todd's Bridges to Burn (Detective Clare Mackay #8) book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • audiobook
Cover of Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes

12. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

By: Simon Barnes

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more

Similar categories in Simon Barnes's Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"

-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

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13. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution

By: Sarah Langford

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langford's Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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14. The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

By: Neil Ansell

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The great gift of solitude is that although you might think that it provokes introspection, actually the very opposite is true - you can lose all sense of self."

-Neil Ansell, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

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15. The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

By: Melissa Harrison

4.21

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, followi… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary by Emma   Mitchell

16. The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary

By: Emma Mitchell

4.11

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Emma Mitchell has suffered with depression - or as she calls it, 'the grey slug' - for twenty-five … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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17. On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet

By: Simon Barnes

3.99

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even clo… read more

Similar categories in Simon Barnes's On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet book and Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

  • nature
  • memoir
  • british literature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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18. Nature Tales for Winter Nights

By: Nancy Campbell

3.22

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

___ From the author of Fifty Words for Snow comes a treasure trove of nature tales from storyteller… read more

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  • nature
  • natural history
Cover of The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life by Kate Bradbury

19. The Bumblebee Flies Anyway: A year of gardening and (wild)life

By: Kate Bradbury

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming her decked, barren… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Best is Yet to Come (The Lake District, #3) by Jessica Redland

20. The Best is Yet to Come (The Lake District, #3)

By: Jessica Redland

4.54

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

Escape to the Lake District with million-copy bestseller Jessica Redland, for an uplifting story o… read more

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Robert Macfarlane

4.49

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Dara McAnulty

4.21

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Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Katherine May

3.62

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L.J. Ross

4.64

Transform Your Habits

The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle (Detective Jan Talantire #1)

Nick Louth

3.94

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Angela Marsons

4.54

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Neil Lancaster

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