18 must-read nonfiction books like Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich

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Slime: A Natural History

By: Susanne Wedlich

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The House on the Strand

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.83

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Dick Young is lent a house in Cornwall by his friend Professor Magnus Lane. During his stay he agre… read more

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"The world of today asleep, and my world not awakened, or not as yet, until the drug possessed me."

-Daphne du Maurier, The House on the Strand

2. Blowback (Enzo Files, #5)

By: Peter May

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

When France's top chef, Marc Fraysse, summoned the world's press to make a shattering announcement,… read more

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3. The Box Man

By: Kōbō Abe , E. Dale Saunders

4.09

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative f… read more

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4. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

Similar categories in Merlin Sheldrake's Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures book and Susanne Wedlich's Slime: A Natural History

  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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

By: Dan Egan

4.23

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author on the source of great bounty—and now great peril—all over t… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • science
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6. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

Similar categories in Cat Jarman's River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road book and Susanne Wedlich's Slime: A Natural History

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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7. The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells

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8. 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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  • history
  • biology
  • evolution
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • 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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9. Great-Uncle Harry: A Tale of War and Empire

By: Michael Palin

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the time, many years ago, when Michael Palin first heard that his grandfather had a brother, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. Eat, Poop, Die: How Animals Make Our World

By: Joe Roman

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A “fascinating” exploration (Elizabeth Kolbert) of how ecosystems are sculpted and sustained by ani… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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11. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The scuba-diving philosopher who wrote Other Minds explores the origins of animal consciousness … read more

Similar categories in Peter Godfrey-Smith's Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind book and Susanne Wedlich's Slime: A Natural History

  • history
  • biology
  • evolution
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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12. 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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  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • 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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13. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

By: Bethany Brookshire

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA by Neil Shubin

14. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA

By: Neil Shubin

4.14

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • evolution
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • science
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15. In Praise of Paths: Walking through Time and Nature

By: Torbjørn Ekelund

3.83

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An ode to paths and the journeys we take through nature, as told by a gifted writer who stopped dri… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea by Edith Widder

16. Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

By: Edith Widder

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence—the l… read more

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  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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17. Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses

By: David Scheel

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A behavioral ecologist's riveting account of his decades-long obsession with octopuses: his discove… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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18. Nine Musings on Time

By: John Gribbin

3.93

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Time travel is a familiar theme of science fiction, but is it really possible? Surprisingly, tim… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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19. Slime: A Natural History

By: Susanne Wedlich

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Slime is an ambiguous thing. It exists somewhere between a solid and liquid. It inspires revulsion … read more

Similar categories in Susanne Wedlich's Slime: A Natural History book and Susanne Wedlich's Slime: A Natural History

  • history
  • biology
  • evolution
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion by Michael        Taylor

20. Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin, and the Battle Between Science and Religion

By: Michael Taylor

4.24

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

“Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary” (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves t… read more

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  • history
  • biology
  • evolution
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World by Peter Godfrey-Smith

21. Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet. … read more

Similar categories in Peter Godfrey-Smith's Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World book and Susanne Wedlich's Slime: A Natural History

  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

13 best-selling history books like Slime: A Natural History by Susanne Wedlich

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

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Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

Cat Jarman

4.06

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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.13

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Transform Your Habits

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

Sy Montgomery

4.33

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

Adam Nicolson

3.51

Transform Your Habits

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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