20 Top environment books like Man's War Against Nature by Rachel Carson

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Man's War Against Nature

By: Rachel Carson

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.With the preci…

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1. Fox 8

By: George Saunders

4.12

Format: 21 pages, ebook

A darkly comic short story, a fable about the all too real impact that we humans have on the enviro… read more

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  • nature
"Now all these happy sites and sounds seem like triks. Now it seems like the gud times are mere lee smoke that, upon blowing away, here is the reel life, which is: rok hats, kikking, stomping."

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"You may have herd the Yuman frase, What are frends for? Well, I will tell you. Frends are for, when your hole Groop terns its baks on you, here comes your frend, Fox 7, of who I spoke of erlyer, as b…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"One day, walking neer one of your Yuman houses, smelling all the interest with snout, I herd, from inside, the most amazing sound. Turns out, what that sound is, was: the Yuman voice, making werds. T…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

"Every minit with no kikking and stomping now seems like not a real minit. Do you get what I mean? It is like some frend who preveusly was nise suden lee says some crool thing and does this nip on you…"

-George Saunders, Fox 8

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2. Sex and Rage

By: Eve Babitz

3.87

Format: 260 pages,

The popular rediscovery of Eve Babitz continues with this very special reissue of her novel, origin… read more

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3. The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

By: John Gardner

4.01

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
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4. Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

By: Michael Pollan

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

A DEFINITIVE COMPENDIUM OF FOOD WISDOM Eating doesn't have to be so complicated. In this age of eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. Little Birds

By: Anaïs Nin

4.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Evocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex … read more

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6. The Collectors (His Dark Materials, #0.6)

By: Philip Pullman , Bill Nighy

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Audible Audio

"But the thing is," said Horley, "they didn't know each other at all. Never heard of each other. It… read more

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7. Batman: The Black Glove

By: Tony S. Daniel , Grant Morrison , J.H. Williams III , Jonathan Glapion

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

Mysterious Batman impostors begin to appear on the streets of Gotham. One of these impostors begins… read more

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8. The Loved One

By: Evelyn Waugh

3.76

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Following the death of a friend, British poet and pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself enter… read more

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"Who asked you to the funeral anyway? Were you acquainted with the late parrot?"

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"Dennis hesitated with his fingers on the handle and was aware of communication with another hand beyond the panels. Thus in a hundred novels had loves stood."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

"What is a "canty day", Dennis?' 'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.' 'What is that?' 'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.' 'Oh."

-Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One

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9. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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10. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

By: Greta Thunberg

3.86

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"The real power belongs to the people."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

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11. 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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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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12. The Democracy of Species

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.49

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and… read more

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"When we rely deeply on other lives, there is an urgency to protect them. Our ancestors, who had so few material possessions, devoted a great of attention to this question, while we are drowning in po…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"Taking coal buried deep in the earth, for which we must inflict irreparable damage, violates every precept of the code [of honorable harvest]. By no stretch of the imagination is coal 'given to us'. …"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"Cautionary stories of the consequences of taking too much are ubiquitous in Native cultures, but it’s hard to recall a single one in English. Perhaps this helps to explain why we seem to be caught in…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

"We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the…"

-Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Democracy of Species

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13. All Art is Ecological

By: Timothy Morton

3.39

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
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14. The Garden of Time

By: J.G. Ballard

4.05

Format: 7 pages, Kindle Edition

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15. The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah

By: Masanobu Fukuoka

3.53

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
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16. The Clan of One-Breasted Women

By: Terry Tempest Williams

3.84

Format: 90 pages, Paperback

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

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • essays
"The power of nature is life in association. Nothing stands alone."

-Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women

"A life in association, not a life independent, is the democratic ideal."

-Terry Tempest Williams, The Clan of One-Breasted Women

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17. We Belong to Gaia

By: James E. Lovelock

3.73

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"We are interfering with temperature regulation by turning up the heat and then simultaneously removing the natural systems that help to regulate it."

-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia

"It is foolish to think that we can explain science as it evolves, rationally and consciously. We have to use the crude tool of metaphor to translate conscious ideas into unconscious understanding."

-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia

"Over half the Earth's people live in cities, and they hardly ever see, feel or hear the natural world. Therefore our first duty should be to convince them that the real world is the living Earth and …"

-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia

"The Earth System behaves as a single, self-regulating system comprised of physical, chemical, biological and human components.' These words marked an abrupt transition from a previously solid convent…"

-James E. Lovelock, We Belong to Gaia

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18. The Most Dammed Country in the World

By: Dai Qing

3.52

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

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

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
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19. A Warning from the Golden Toad

By: Tim Flannery

3.68

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Taking us on a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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20. 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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
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21. What I Stand for Is What I Stand On (Green Ideas)

By: Wendell Berry

4.16

Format: 87 pages, Kindle Edition

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

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
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22. The Last Tree on Easter Island

By: Jared Diamond

3.98

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.This is Jared … read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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23. An Idea Can Go Extinct (Green Ideas)

By: Bill McKibben

3.30

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.An Idea Can Go… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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24. Every Species is a Masterpiece

By: Edward O. Wilson

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin Classics brings you the ideas that have changed the way we think and… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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25. Man's War Against Nature

By: Rachel Carson

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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26. Think Like a Mountain

By: Aldo Leopold

3.86

Format: 85 pages, Paperback

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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • science
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27. This Can't Be Happening (Green Ideas)

By: George Monbiot

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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

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  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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28. The Examiner

By: Janice Hallett

4.06

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more

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29. Hot Money

By: Naomi Klein

4.27

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.In Hot Money N… read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"when climate change deniers claim that global warming is a plot to redistribute wealth. It's not (only) because they are paranoid. It's also because they are paying attention."

-Naomi Klein, Hot Money

"And the real surprise, for all involved, is that we are so much more than we have been told we are - that we long for more and in that longing have more company than we ever imagined."

-Naomi Klein, Hot Money

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30. There is No Point of No Return

By: Arne Næss

3.43

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • ecology
  • environment
  • nature
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31. Uncanny and Improbable Events

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.73

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment

22 must-read nonfiction books like Man's War Against Nature by Rachel Carson

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers

John Gardner

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Michael Pollan

4.04

Transform Your Habits

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Greta Thunberg

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

Henry Dimbleby

4.39

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21 Top nonfiction books like A Warning from the Golden Toad by Tim Flannery

Transform Your Habits

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

Michael Pollan

4.04

Transform Your Habits

No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

Greta Thunberg

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Democracy of Species

Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.49

Transform Your Habits

All Art is Ecological

Timothy Morton

3.39

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