15 Best audiobook books like Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss

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Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

By: Lauren Redniss

4.18

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache fam…

If you liked the audiobook plot in Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. Fat Kid Rules the World

By: K.L. Going

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  Troy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds,… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Going's Fat Kid Rules the World book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

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2. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more

Similar categories in Jake Bittle's The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • nature
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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3. The Naturalist's Daughter

By: Tea Cooper

4.12

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

1808 Agnes Banks, NSW Rose Winton wants nothing more than to work with her father, eminent natur… read more

Similar categories in Tea Cooper's The Naturalist's Daughter book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • audiobook
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4. 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 Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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5. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • audiobook
  • native american
  • indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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6. Ten Birds That Changed the World

By: Stephen Moss

3.97

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Moss's Ten Birds That Changed the World book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • audiobook
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7. Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land

By: Noé Álvarez

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The son of working-class Mexican immigrants flees a life of labor in fruit-packing plants to run in… read more

Similar categories in Noé Álvarez's Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • indigenous
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8. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more

Similar categories in Dina Gilio-Whitaker's As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • history
  • politics
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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9. Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

By: Alejandra Oliva

4.25

Format: 320 pages, None

The Undocumented Americans meets Tell Me How It Ends in this chronicle about translation, storytell… read more

Similar categories in Alejandra Oliva's Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging

By: Lauren Markham

4.08

Format: 263 pages, ebook

A provocative, virtuosic inquiry that reveals how the valorization of migrations past is intimately… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Markham's A Map of Future Ruins: On Borders and Belonging book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Remainder

By: Alia Trabucco Zerán

3.51

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

Santiago, Chile. The city is covered in ash. Three children of ex-militants are facing a past they … read more

Similar categories in Alia Trabucco Zerán's The Remainder book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

"Off and on: one week there, the next nowhere to be seen, that’s how my dead began..."

-Alia Trabucco Zerán, The Remainder

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12. Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening

By: Douglas Brinkley

4.35

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of e… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Brinkley's Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • nature
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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13. Hazel's Theory of Evolution

By: Lisa Jenn Bigelow

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of The Thing About Jellyfish and Raymie Nightingale, this tender middle grade nove… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jenn Bigelow's Hazel's Theory of Evolution book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • audiobook
"The sky was dusty blue. A soft breeze came through the screen. Crickets chirped, and I heard the distant whistle of a train."

-Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Hazel's Theory of Evolution

"Hope was a huge hill you climbed higher every day. And when something went wrong, it was like getting pushed off a cliff. The higher you’d climbed, the farther you fell, and the more broken you were …"

-Lisa Jenn Bigelow, Hazel's Theory of Evolution

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14. The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

By: Daniel Stone

3.93

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

The true adventures of David Fairchild, a late-nineteenth-century food explorer who traveled the gl… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Stone's The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • audiobook
"What would normally be good news instead laid bare a pesky side effect of innovation: greater efficiency required fewer workers, leaving rural communities with little to support themselves."

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"He didn't know it, but America had a need for David Fairchild. The bare agricultural landscape at the beginning of his life would transform by its end into a colorful portrait: yellows from tropical …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"In Naples, where pizza was invented, Fairchild tasted his first cheesy flatbread, a punishing food for first-timers, whose mouths could be scorched with hot, lavalike cheese. He was enchanted by the …"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

"The grape, of a variety known as sultanina, would ultimately grow best in the wet and temperate soil of California. America's region most climatically similar to the Mediterranean. Fairchild's sample…"

-Daniel Stone, The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

15. 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 Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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16. Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

By: Xiaowei Wang

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corner… read more

Similar categories in Xiaowei Wang's Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • politics
  • nonfiction
"In Xi Jinping's China, it's uncomfortable for two strangers to go too deep into the subject of politics. There are no clear cut consequences for discussing politics. After all, this is preceisely how…"

-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

"Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is a belief that the universe is already perfect as it is, and that our duty as hum…"

-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside

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17. Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

By: Lauren Redniss

4.18

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache fam… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • art
  • history
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • native american
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City by Amanda Kolson Hurley

18. Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City

By: Amanda Kolson Hurley

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

America’s suburbs are not the homogenous places we sometimes take them for. Today’s suburbs are rac… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Kolson Hurley's Radical Suburbs: Experimental Living on the Fringes of the American City book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Smothermoss

By: Alisa Alering

3.57

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A haunting, imaginative, and twisting tale of two sisters and the menacing, unexplained forces that… read more

Similar categories in Alisa Alering's Smothermoss book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • audiobook
Cover of Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water by Amorina Kingdon

20. Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

By: Amorina Kingdon

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call f… read more

Similar categories in Amorina Kingdon's Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of My Life: Growing Up Native in America by IllumiNative

21. My Life: Growing Up Native in America

By: IllumiNative

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A moving collection of twenty powerful essays, poems, and more that capture and celebrate the moder… read more

Similar categories in IllumiNative's My Life: Growing Up Native in America book and Lauren Redniss's Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

  • nonfiction
  • native american

11 Top history books like Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss

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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

Jake Bittle

4.28

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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Ten Birds That Changed the World

Stephen Moss

3.97

Transform Your Habits

As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

Dina Gilio-Whitaker

4.36

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20 must-read audiobook books like The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

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Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

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Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

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