8 must-read nature books like An Australian Birding Year by R. Bruce Richardson

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An Australian Birding Year

By: R. Bruce Richardson

4.33

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Bruce and his wife, Lynn, embark on a year of travel and birding across the entire continent of Aus…

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1. Big Twitch: One Man, One Continent, a Race Against Time: A True Story about Birdwatching

By: Sean Dooley

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As a self-proclaimed twitcher—a birdwatching extremist who travels around the country trying to cat… read more

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  • travel
  • nature
Cover of Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2) by Jane Harper

2. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

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3. A Trick of the Light (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #7)

By: Louise Penny

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." … read more

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4. The Scarecrow (Jack McEvoy, #2, Harry Bosch Universe, #19)

By: Michael Connelly

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

For Jack McEvoy, the killer named The Poet was the last word in evil. Think again, Jack. Twelve yea… read more

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5. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel… read more

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6. The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession

By: Mark Obmascik

3.47

Format: 185 pages,

For those who thought bird-watching was a sedate Sunday hobby, here comes the rollicking tale of th… read more

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  • travel
  • nature
Cover of The Nantucket Diet Murders (Eugenia Potter, #3) by Virginia Rich

7. The Nantucket Diet Murders (Eugenia Potter, #3)

By: Virginia Rich

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Warm memories and good food greeted Mrs. Potter's return to her beloved Nantucket, but so did a chi… read more

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8. The Genius of Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more

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9. The Pale Horseman (The Saxon Stories, #2)

By: Bernard Cornwell

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

The second installment of Bernard Cornwell's New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic… read more

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10. About Grace

By: Anthony Doerr

3.63

Format: 56 pages,

Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Gr… read more

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11. How the Light Gets In (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #9)

By: Louise Penny

3.62

Format: 272 pages,

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec digs beneath the idyllic surface of village … read more

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12. White Teeth

By: Zadie Smith

4.53

Format: 288 pages,

On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more

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13. Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

By: Noah Strycker

4.00

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first pe… read more

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14. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

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  • nature
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Cover of Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1) by Chris Hammer

15. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

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16. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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17. The Twyford Code

By: Janice Hallett

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

It's time to solve the murder of the century... Forty years ago, Steven Smith found a copy of a … read more

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"A lot of talk inside about feelings. How feelings are like visitors with something to give you. If they knock on your door: answer. Let em in. Accept the gift. Say cheers, mate. Otherwise, they said,…"

-Janice Hallett, The Twyford Code

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18. The Wife and the Widow

By: Christian White

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of THE NOWHERE CHILD Set against th… read more

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19. Bruny

By: Heather Rose

3.86

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

How far would your government go? A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Midd… read more

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"This was what happened to Tasmanian children. A lot of us left the island in search of bigger dreams. And then, sometimes, we came back."

-Heather Rose, Bruny

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20. A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds

By: Scott Weidensaul

4.20

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable … read more

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  • nature
Cover of Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark by Julia Baird

21. Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

By: Julia Baird

3.78

Format: 320 pages, ebook

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘This book is beautiful … Julia Baird has been to the tough edges and … read more

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  • nature
"McCarthy insists if we delight in nature and find joy there, we will not so carelessly plunder, neglect and destroy it. He calls it 'defence through joy'."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Seek awe and nature daily... show kindness; practise grace; eschew vanity; be bold; embrace friends, family, faith and doubt, imperfection and mess; and live deliberately."

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"Findings revealed Type As focus on how proud they are and [how] impressed others are, but are only moderately to weakly involved in actively seeing positive memories for later recall, or in reminisci…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

"There are few things as startling as encountering an unearthly glow in the wild. Glow-worms. Ghost mushrooms. Fireflies. Flashlight fish. Lantern sharks. Vampire squid. Our forest floors and ceilings…"

-Julia Baird, Phosphorescence: On Awe, Wonder and Things That Sustain You When the World Goes Dark

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22. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

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  • nature
Cover of Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3) by Jane Harper

23. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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Cover of Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

24. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • nature
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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25. The Library of Lost and Found

By: Phaedra Patrick

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Librarian Martha Storm has always found it easier to connect with books than people - though not fo… read more

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"You should always make time for books"

-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

"You're still the same people, underneath."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

"Sometimes there's no right decision. Just the one you make at the time."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

"They set off and drove up and along Maltsborough road to the sound of AC/DC, played volume level two and a half."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Library of Lost and Found

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26. The Lost Man

By: Jane Harper

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more

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"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

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27. The Voice to Parliament Handbook: All the Detail You Need

By: Thomas Mayo

4.52

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

The Voice to Parliament Handbook is an easy-to-follow guide for the millions of Australians who hav… read more

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28. An Australian Birding Year

By: R. Bruce Richardson

4.33

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Bruce and his wife, Lynn, embark on a year of travel and birding across the entire continent of Aus… read more

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  • travel
  • nature
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29. More Australian Birding Tales

By: R Bruce Richardson

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

More Australian Birding Tales takes up where the author’s very successful first book, An Australian… read more

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30. Eastern Curlew

By: Harry Saddler

4.31

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Every year around August, large flocks of Eastern Curlews leave their breeding grounds in the Arcti… read more

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  • travel
Cover of New Zealand's Biggest Year by Harry Boorman

31. New Zealand's Biggest Year

By: Harry Boorman

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

New Zealand’ s Biggest Year is an epic birding tale of how two friends become rivals and set out to… read more

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

3.84

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John Scalzi

4.16

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Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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