14 Top audiobook books like Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

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Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

By: Jessica J. Lee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise by Olivia Laing

1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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2. 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 Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • 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 How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler

3. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
  • science
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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4. 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 Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1) by Kate   Hilton

5. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Hilton

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more

Similar categories in Kate Hilton's Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1) book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • canada
Cover of Denison Avenue by Christina Wong

6. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • canada
  • audiobook
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7. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

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  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic by Adam Shoalts

8. Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

By: Adam Shoalts

4.32

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

From Canada’s most accomplished adventurer and storyteller comes a gripping journey into the vastne… read more

Similar categories in Adam Shoalts's Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

9. 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 Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
  • audiobook
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10. The Cure for Drowning

By: Loghan Paylor

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Evocative, magical and luminously written, The Cure for Drowning is not only a brilliant, boundary-… read more

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  • canada
Cover of Say Hello to My Little Friend by Jennine Capó Crucet

11. Say Hello to My Little Friend

By: Jennine Capó Crucet

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scarface meets Moby Dick in this groundbreaking, darkly comic novel about a young man’s attempt to … read more

Similar categories in Jennine Capó Crucet's Say Hello to My Little Friend book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • audiobook
Cover of Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium by Helen Humphreys

12. Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium

By: Helen Humphreys

3.90

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need… read more

Similar categories in Helen Humphreys's Field Study: Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • canada
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

13. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

By: Jessica J. Lee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more

Similar categories in Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • canada
  • natural history
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Coexistence: Stories by Billy-Ray Belcourt

14. Coexistence: Stories

By: Billy-Ray Belcourt

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Superbly rendered portraits of modern indigeneity from the acclaimed author of A Minor Chorus. A gr… read more

Similar categories in Billy-Ray Belcourt's Coexistence: Stories book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • canada
  • audiobook
"I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

"That's what love is -- someone else's spirit moving through you. When someone moves through you they leave behind a small trace of human life. It's how we know we're still alive."

-Billy-Ray Belcourt, Coexistence: Stories

Cover of The World We Once Lived In by Wangari Maathai

15. The World We Once Lived In

By: Wangari Maathai

3.91

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.From the Congo… read more

Similar categories in Wangari Maathai's The World We Once Lived In book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • essays
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

16. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

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Cover of Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden by Marchelle Farrell

17. Uprooting: From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden

By: Marchelle Farrell

4.09

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

What is home?It’s a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. A longed-for … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories by Shashi Bhat

18. Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories

By: Shashi Bhat

4.22

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

CBC Books' Top Pick for Most Anticipated Canadian Fiction for Spring 2024—a breathtaking and sharpl… read more

Similar categories in Shashi Bhat's Death by a Thousand Cuts: Stories book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • essays
  • canada
Cover of Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life by Ferris Jabr

19. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

By: Ferris Jabr

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains by Clayton Page Aldern

20. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

By: Clayton Page Aldern

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life , to all those who… read more

Similar categories in Clayton Page Aldern's The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel by Jane Urquhart

21. In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel

By: Jane Urquhart

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

From one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable … read more

Similar categories in Jane Urquhart's In Winter I Get Up at Night: A Novel book and Jessica J. Lee's Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

  • canada

12 Top nonfiction books like Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

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The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

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Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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Catherine Newman

3.75

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Monica Wood

4.29

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Alison B. Hart

3.47

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