13 Top science books like Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome by James Kinross

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Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

By: James Kinross

4.19

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with …

If you liked the science plot in Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome by James Kinross , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. The Rachel Papers

By: Martin Amis

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of … read more

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2. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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3. Two Caravans

By: Marina Lewycka , Vesa Suominen

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Paperback

Also published as Strawberry Fields. The bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrai… read more

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4. 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

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"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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5. Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Truly essential’ MARGARET ATWOOD Feeling anxious, powerless or confused about the future of our p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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6. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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7. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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  • science
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • health
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8. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

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  • science
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • health
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10. Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life

By: Michael Mosley

4.03

Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on the popular BBC podcast, Just One Thing, this book brings to life Dr Mosley's mission to u… read more

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  • popular science
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
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11. How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older

By: Michael Greger

4.29

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Uncover the evidence-based science to slowing the effects of aging, from the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • science
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • health
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12. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works

By: Helen Czerski

4.23

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. The Well-Lived Life: A 102-Year-Old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health and Happiness at Every Age

By: Gladys McGarey

4.29

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Dr. Gladys McGarey, a centenarian still-consulting doctor and the mother of holistic medicine, reve… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health
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14. Food for Life: The New Science of Eating Well

By: Tim Spector

4.27

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth , a comprehensive guide to the new scien… read more

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  • science
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • health
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15. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • 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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16. Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

By: Helen Knott

4.31

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

When matriarchs begin to disappear, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"What else have I made my responsibility that no one asked me to take on?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Mama's arms felt like ceremony on nights when the ghosts of my past experiences wouldn't let me sleep."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"The women in my family are medicine. They are backbones and ribcages and hearts. They are whispers in men's ears. They are the guardians that kept us whole."

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

"Teetering on the brink of relapse and the edge of insanity. I can't fuck or fight my way out of these feelings, so that's a bitch, but the weather is nice. More cream for your coffee, Edna?"

-Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch: A Memoir

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17. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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18. Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome

By: James Kinross

4.19

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 START THE WEEK From a world-leading microbiome scientist and surgeon with … read more

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  • health
  • biology
  • food
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • science
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19. The Balanced Brain

By: Camilla Nord

4.04

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

'Simply brilliant. This is science writing at its best. If you want to understand mental health - r… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • health

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Thomas Halliday

4.13

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4.29

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4.20

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Rory Stewart

4.36

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Jessie Inchauspé

4.44

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Daniel E. Lieberman

4.18

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