20 Top nonfiction books like Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps by Seirian Sumner

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Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

By: Seirian Sumner

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, au…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps by Seirian Sumner , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees

By: Dave Goulson

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One man's quest to save the bumblebee. Dave Goulson has always been obsessed with wildlife, from hi… read more

Similar categories in Dave Goulson's A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • nature
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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2. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

By: Adam Nicolson

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more

Similar categories in Adam Nicolson's The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."

-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

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3. Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

By: William McKeever

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel m… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The salt in the sea is the same as the salt in our blood"

-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

"Taking into account fair labor wages for fishermen and canning employees- and the damage inflicted to the ocean through overfishing and the ecological impact of the slow annihilation of sharks- a sin…"

-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

"If we act today, we can ensure that our children will look out on the ocean and know underneath the surface, a shark will be swimming, standing guard over its dominion, protecting the ocean, the grea…"

-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

"Society's lack of compassion for our fellow people and for animals leads to an ocean where sharks are dying by the millions and slaves are being abused by the thousands. The connection is basic: a di…"

-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

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4. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

Similar categories in Steve Brusatte's The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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5. Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

By: Annie Proulx

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A lifelong acolyte of the natural world, Annie Proulx brings her witness and research to the subjec… read more

Similar categories in Annie Proulx's Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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6. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Halliday's Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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7. Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

By: Nick Lane

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end? For decades, biology has been domina… read more

Similar categories in Nick Lane's Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • audiobook
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"Almost the only thing we know for sure about consciousness is that it is, so to speak, soluble in ether, chloroform and a variety of other solvents ..."

-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

"Core metabolism has changed little in part because it was never powered down in its four-billion-year history. The genes are custodians of this flame, but without the flame life is – dead."

-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

"Keen to progress the work on photosynthesis, Lawrence hired Melvin Calvin, a colleague from the Manhattan Project, immediately after the war. The story has it that on the day of the Japanese surrende…"

-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

"Putting terms aside, we’ll see that the ancient biosynthetic Krebs cycle was fixing CO2 a billion years before rubisco and the evolution of photosynthesis in the cyanobacterial ancestors of plant chl…"

-Nick Lane, Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

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8. 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 Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

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

9. 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 Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn

11. Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

By: Rob Dunn

4.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets … read more

Similar categories in Rob Dunn's Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I know what I want my dust to say about me."

-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

"Every surface; every bit of air; every bit of water in your home is alive. The average house has thousands of species."

-Rob Dunn, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live

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12. 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 Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe by Philip Plait

13. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

By: Philip Plait

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more

Similar categories in Philip Plait's Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change by Thor Hanson

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 Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains by Bethany Brookshire

15. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Brookshire's Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Empire of Ants: The Hidden  World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors by Susanne Foitzik

16. Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors

By: Susanne Foitzik

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing … read more

Similar categories in Susanne Foitzik's Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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17. The Mind of a Bee

By: Lars Chittka

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A rich and surprising exploration of the intelligence of bees Most of us are aware of the hive min… read more

Similar categories in Lars Chittka's The Mind of a Bee book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"American writer and biologist Frederick Kenyon (1867-1941) was the first to explore the inner workings of the bee brain. His 1896 study, in which he managed to dye and characterize numerous types of …"

-Lars Chittka, The Mind of a Bee

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18. If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

By: Justin Gregg

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A dazzling, delightful read on what animal cognition can teach us about our own mental shortcoming… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps by Seirian Sumner

19. Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

By: Seirian Sumner

3.91

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from.” — Robin Ince, au… read more

Similar categories in Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps book and Seirian Sumner's Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps

  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat by Edward Struzik

20. Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat

By: Edward Struzik

3.85

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a world filled with breathtaking beauty, we have often overlooked the elusive charm and magic of… read more

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  • science
  • ecology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook

19 must-read audiobook books like Endless Forms: The Secret World of Wasps by Seirian Sumner

Transform Your Habits

The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

Adam Nicolson

3.51

Transform Your Habits

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

William McKeever

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx

3.65

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18 Top audiobook books like Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever

Transform Your Habits

The Deep

Peter Benchley

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

William McKeever

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Steve Brusatte

4.20

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