8 must-read science books like Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends by Mats Ottosson

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Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

By: Mats Ottosson

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stunning celebration of birds and why we love them. Gorgeous, close-up photographs highlight the …

If you liked the science plot in Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends by Mats Ottosson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Freshwater

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.02

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary debut novel, Freshwater explores the surreal experience of having a fractured self… read more

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"It wasn’t me,"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The worst part of embodiment is being unseen."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"Sometimes, you recognize truth because it destroys you for a bit."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

"The gods do not care. It is not them, after all, that will pay the cost."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater

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2. Address Unknown

By: Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it fi… read more

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3. Expeditionen: Min kärlekshistoria

By: Bea Uusma

2.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Juli 1897. Ingenjor Andrees expedition ger sig ivag i en vatgasballong med riktning Nordpolen. En d… read more

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4. 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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5. Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality

By: Helen Scales

4.05

Format: None pages,

read more

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6. Millaista on olla eläin?

By: Helena Telkänranta

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Osaako koira haveta tekosiaan? Miksi rotat nauravat? Kuinka kauas ulottuu norsun muisti? Elainten k… read more

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7. Silent Spring

By: Edward O. Wilson , Rachel Carson , Linda Lear

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in… read more

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8. Paradise

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more

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9. Sarasvatin hiekkaa

By: Risto Isomäki

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ekologinen jannitysromaani, joka paattyy ihmisen itsensa aiheuttamaan ymparistokatastrofiin. Tama v… read more

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10. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
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11. Elolliset

By: Iida Turpeinen

4.38

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Vuonna 1741 luonnontieteilijä ja teologi Georg Wilhelm Steller seilaa kapteeni Vitus Beringin retki… read more

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  • animals
  • nature
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12. Sarvijumala

By: Magdalena Hai

3.70

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

Kun kuolema koskettaa, kaikki muuttuu. Hiipivää kauhua nuorille. Lauri herää sairaalasta koht… read more

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13. Suomaa

By: Maria Turtschaninoff

4.35

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Ihmisen ja metsän juuret yhtä syvällä. Suomaa on lumoava episodiromaani metsän voimasta ja suoma… read more

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  • nature
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14. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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15. Out of the Corner

By: Jennifer Grey

3.81

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and found from the star of the ic… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Drømmen om et tre (Klimakvartetten, #4)

By: Maja Lunde

3.90

Format: 475 pages, Hardcover

Longyearbyen 2110: Dypt inne i fjellet, langt mot nord, ligger et hvelv fylt av frø fra all verdens… read more

Similar categories in Maja Lunde's Drømmen om et tre (Klimakvartetten, #4) book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • nature
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17. Cryptid Club

By: Sarah Andersen

4.27

Format: 112 pages, ebook

Do you hate social gatherings? Dodge cameras? Enjoy staying up just a little too late at night? You… read more

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18. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more

Similar categories in Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson's Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"

-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

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19. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

By: Patrik Svensson

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more

Similar categories in Patrik Svensson's The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

20. 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

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Vi ska ju bara cykla förbi by Ellen Strömberg

21. Vi ska ju bara cykla förbi

By: Ellen Strömberg

3.95

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Manda och Malin går vårterminen i nian, de är bästisar och bor i ett litet samhälle där det verklig… read more

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Cover of Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World by Craig Foster

22. Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World

By: Craig Foster

4.43

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Craig Foster and Ross Frylinck regularly dive together in the awe-inspiring kelp forests off South … read more

Similar categories in Craig Foster's Underwater Wild: My Octopus Teacher's Extraordinary World book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • art
  • biology
  • photography
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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23. Nell Plants a Tree

By: Anne Wynter

4.31

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

This gorgeous picture book shows how one little girl’s careful tending of a pecan tree creates the… read more

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  • nature
Cover of I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Being Human by Alexis Devine

24. I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Being Human

By: Alexis Devine

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Social media stars of @WhatAboutBunny, Alexis Devine and Bunny the "talking" dog, deliver a memoir … read more

Similar categories in Alexis Devine's I Am Bunny: How a "Talking" Dog Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Being Human book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • science
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25. When Among Crows

By: Veronica Roth

3.73

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

When Among Crows is swift and striking, drawing from the deep well of Slavic folklore and asking if… read more

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"I don't find it painful to be ordinary."

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

"He pinches one of the petals and breaks it away from the flower. It doesn't feel like it's as powerful as it is, but maybe that's just how powerful things are- like the zmory, like Baba Jaga herself,…"

-Veronica Roth, When Among Crows

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26. Tainnutuskehto

By: Elli Valtonen

4.37

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Hurja ja kaunis esikoisromaani auttamisen halusta ja sen alle musertumisesta. Iiris, Janna ja Sa… read more

Similar categories in Elli Valtonen's Tainnutuskehto book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • animals
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27. Walk the Vanished Earth

By: Erin Swan

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotiona… read more

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28. The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life

By: Johan Eklöf

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why We Sleep and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent and insightful loo… read more

Similar categories in Johan Eklöf's The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae."

-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life

"Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do."

-Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life

Cover of Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends by Mats Ottosson

29. Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

By: Mats Ottosson

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A stunning celebration of birds and why we love them. Gorgeous, close-up photographs highlight the … read more

Similar categories in Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends book and Mats Ottosson's Close to Birds: An Intimate Look at Our Feathered Friends

  • art
  • biology
  • photography
  • art and photography
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
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30. Lappuggla : skogens dolda väsen

By: Jonas Classon

4.58

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Varför sitter de nordliga gammelskogarnas uggla plötsligt på ett småländskt hygge? Varför rör de si… read more

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31. Das kleine Hummelbuch

By: Stefan Casta

4.69

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Eigentlich ist die Hummel zu schwer zum Fliegen. Zum Glück weiß sie das nicht! Brummend fliegen … read more

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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Out of the Corner

Jennifer Grey

3.81

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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Patrik Svensson

3.92

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Big

Vashti Harrison

4.66

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There Was a Party for Langston

Jason Reynolds

4.48

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Simon and the Better Bone

Corey R. Tabor

4.32

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Julie Leung

4.38

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