22 must-read nonfiction books like Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You by Nick Hayes

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Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You

By: Nick Hayes

4.35

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European…

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1. A History of Ancient Britain

By: Neil Oliver

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

By: George Monbiot

4.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This book explodes with wonder and delight. Making use of remarkable scientific discoveries that tr… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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3. Letters from Father Christmas

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Baillie Tolkien

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Every December an envelope bearing a stamp from the North Pole would arrive for J.R.R. Tolkien's ch… read more

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4. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more

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5. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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6. The Lacuna

By: Barbara Kingsolver

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City… read more

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7. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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8. How They Broke Britain

By: James O'Brien

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

The revealing, defining account of the dark network that broke out country. Something has gone r… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. 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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10. 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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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"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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11. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

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12. Finding Hildasay: How One Man Walked the UK's Coastline and Found Hope and Happiness

By: Christian Lewis

4.40

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Join Christian Lewis as he walks the entire coastline of the UK – his dog Jet in tow – and rebuilds… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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13. Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness

By: Alastair Humphreys

4.44

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

‘Agile, wryly funny and wise’ Robert Macfarlane A search for nearby nature and wildness After years… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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14. 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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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"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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15. My Brother's Name Is Jessica

By: John Boyne

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and … read more

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16. 12 Birds to Save Your Life: Nature's Lessons in Happiness

By: Charlie Corbett

3.97

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

This book is about coping with being human. It's about how unexpected events smash and bash their w… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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17. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

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18. What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"

-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?

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19. Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

By: Caroline Lucas

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Who are the English? Today, the dominant story told about our national history solely serves the i… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Many resented how some expressions of Englishness were allowed, while others were not. It was acceptable to love the English countryside, English humour, English music and English Literature, and to …"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"With the 1980s came a new harshness in British politics, which included prioritising profit over public service. The Conservatives - the very party who might have been expected to support the traditi…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"The economist J.K. Galbraith wrote in The Affluent Society (1958) about 'private affluence and public squalor', demonstrating the pernicious effects on the economy and society of excessive wealth ine…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"Ultimately, the most powerful way to rebalance the interests of private owners and the common good is by shifting the focus towards taxes on wealth - that is, asking those who have accummulated subst…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

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20. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

By: Simon Barnes

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"

-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

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21. Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

By: Kerri Andrews

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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22. Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution

By: Sarah Langford

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When Sarah Langford left her city life behind she found herself unexpectedly back in the world of f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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23. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

By: George Monbiot

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. Back to Nature: How to love life - and save it

By: Chris Packham

4.20

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And it needs us too. From … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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25. Cairn

By: Kathleen Jamie

4.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Cairn: A marker on open land, a memorial, a viewpoint shared by strangers. For the last five yea… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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26. Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future

By: Tom Bullough

3.98

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarn Helen - Helen's Causeway - is the old Roman Road that runs from the south of Wales to the nort… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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27. Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You

By: Nick Hayes

4.35

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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28. One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate

By: Kate Bradbury

4.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Five years after her first book, Kate Bradbury has a new, slightly bigger garden two miles away. Ka… read more

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  • nonfiction
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29. How to be a Bad Botanist

By: Simon Barnes

4.07

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Can you tell a tomato from a grape? Lawn from an oak tree? Then congratulations - you are a botanis… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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30. Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them

By: Derek Gow

3.50

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"[Derek Gow is] a wry, profane truth teller who is equal parts yeoman farmer, historical ecologist,… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history

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George Monbiot

4.64

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Robert Macfarlane

4.49

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Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

4.20

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Christian Lewis

4.40

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Shubnum Khan

3.87

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4.54

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Lisa Ko

3.22

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Tommy Orange

3.89

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