15 best-selling nonfiction books like The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021 by Ed Yong

Cover of The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021 by Ed Yong

The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021

By: Ed Yong

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

New York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best scienc…

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1. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

By: Aldo Leopold

4.30

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • science
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

2. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

By: Mary Roach , Tim Folger

4.42

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier a… read more

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3. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2016

By: Amy Stewart , Tim Folger

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Best-selling author Amy Stewart edits this year's volume of the finest science and nature writing. read more

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4. The Pine Barrens

By: John McPhee , James Graves

4.00

Format: 290 pages,

Most people think of New Jersey as a suburban-industrial corridor that runs between New York and Ph… read more

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5. Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

By: Ibram X. Kendi

4.57

Format: 504 pages, Hardcover

An epoch-defining history of African America, the first to appear in a generation, Four Hundred Sou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Black people will always find each other in the passage between death and America"

-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

"And again we confront the problem of history: it's usually the powerful who get to write it."

-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

"Z is for zealotry: national pride like an infinite zipline, hyperdrive, the fastest way down."

-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

"There's dust, a scratch in a groove, and here we are repeating the same two seconds of "Strange Fruit."

-Ibram X. Kendi, Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

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6. The Best American Short Stories 2022

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year’s best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer … read more

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  • anthologies
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7. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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8. 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

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • science
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9. The Best American Essays 2022

By: Alexander Chee

3.98

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by award-winning writer Alexander Chee. Alexand… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays
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10. Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more

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11. Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

By: Laila Lalami

4.27

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Humanity is fundamentally a story of migration."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"White" is seen as the default, the absence of race. ...Whiteness, then, is shrouded in silence. To speak about it openly is to break a taboo."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"All immigrants walk around with a scar left behind by their crossing into a new country, an invisible mark of the exile that became their condition when they were uprooted."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

"From my mother and grandmother, I learned about faith as a private relationship with the cosmic, which did not need to be measured by adherence to strict rules and rituals."

-Laila Lalami, Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

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12. Having and Being Had

By: Eula Biss

3.83

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

"My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts," Eula Biss writes, "the time before I owned … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Art unmakes the world made by work."

-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

"Not having money is time consuming. There are hours spent at laundromats, hours at bus stops, hours at free clinics, hours at thrift stores, hours on the phone with the bank or the credit card compan…"

-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

"Why is water so often a metaphor for money? Perhaps because we like to believe that our economic system is naturally occurring, not man-made. Maybe the movement of money feels inevitable if you imagi…"

-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

"Some people choose their precarity - evidence that precarity is not just a condition of our time, but a response to it. The precariat includes people who have forgone stable employment and retirement…"

-Eula Biss, Having and Being Had

Cover of The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 by Veronica Roth

13. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021

By: Veronica Roth

3.82

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The best science fiction and fantasy stories of 2021, selected by series editor John Joseph Adams a… read more

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  • anthologies
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14. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2018

By: Sam Kean

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

“This is one of the most exciting times in the history of science,” New York Times -bestselling aut… read more

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  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science nature
  • journalism
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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15. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2020

By: Michio Kaku

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edite… read more

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  • medicine
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021 by Ed Yong

16. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021

By: Ed Yong

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

New York Times best-selling author and renowned science journalist Ed Yong compiles the best scienc… read more

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  • medicine
  • anthologies
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science nature
  • journalism
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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17. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019

By: Sy Montgomery

4.18

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Sy Montgomery, New York Times best-selling author and recipient of numerous … read more

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  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science nature
  • journalism
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  • nature
  • science
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18. The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023

By: Carl Zimmer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Award-winning writer, columnist, and journalists Carl Zimmer selects twenty science and nature essa… read more

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19. The Best American Essays 2021

By: Kathryn Schulz

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff w… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays
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20. The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2022

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A collection of the best science and nature articles written in 2021, selected by guest editor reno… read more

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  • nonfiction
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  • environment
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  • science
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21. The Best American Essays 2020

By: Robert Atwan

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A collection of the year’s best essays selected by André Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller… read more

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13 must-read essays books like The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021 by Ed Yong

Transform Your Habits

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

4.57

Transform Your Habits

The Best American Essays 2022

Alexander Chee

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America

Laila Lalami

4.27

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Transform Your Habits

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi

4.57

Transform Your Habits

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

4.67

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Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

Michael Harriot

4.59

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