8 best-selling british literature books like 21st Century Yokel by Tom Cox

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21st Century Yokel

By: Tom Cox

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or …

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1. Oystercatchers

By: Susan Fletcher

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Amy lies in a coma. Moira, eleven years older, spends the evenings at her sister's… read more

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  • british literature
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2. Waterlog: A Swimmer's Journey Through Britain

By: Roger Deakin

4.27

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

In 1996 Roger Deakin, the late, great nature writer, set out to swim through the British Isles. Fro… read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature

3. The Wild Places

By: Robert Macfarlane

3.73

Format: None pages,

"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more

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4. How to Talk to Girls at Parties

By: Neil Gaiman

4.38

Format: 234 pages, ebook

Nominated for a 2007 Hugo Award. "Come on," said Vic. "It'll be great." "No, it won't," I said, alt… read more

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5. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

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6. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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7. 52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School

By: James Felton

3.96

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

JAMES FELTON'S NEW BOOK "ASSHOLES" IS OUT NOW 'Scurrilous, scandalous and frequently disgusting. I… read more

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  • audiobook
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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8. A Haunting in the Arctic

By: C.J. Cooke

3.78

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

1901-ben ​járunk. A fiatal nőt, Nickyt megtámadják, majd egy bálnavadász hajó, az Ormen fedélzetén … read more

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9. For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

By: Victoria Mackenzie

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

An astounding debut, both epic and intimate, about grief, trauma, revelation, and the hidden lives … read more

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"Sometimes I reworked, with much crossing out and burning of papers; I had to sift through my thoughts for words that gleamed with truth. But other times the words came fast, and then I was an arrow, …"

-Victoria Mackenzie, For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain

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10. 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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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • british literature
"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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11. Perilous Times

By: Thomas D. Lee

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet—saving the politically polar… read more

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  • audiobook
"Oi!' says the squirrel. 'Get your filthy hands off me! I'll fucking have you!"

-Thomas D. Lee, Perilous Times

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12. Killingly

By: Katharine Beutner

3.39

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Based on the unsolved real-life disappearance of a Mount Holyoke student in 1897, Killingly weaves … read more

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13. Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain

By: Amy Jeffs

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Soaked in mist and old magic, Storyland is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wilde… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • british literature
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14. Wild Fell: Fighting for Nature on a Lake District Hill Farm

By: Lee Schofield

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In 2015, England's last and loneliest golden eagle died in an unmarked spot among the remote easter… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
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15. The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

By: Neil Ansell

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Neil Ansell's The Last Wilderness is a mesmerising book on nature and solitude by a writer who has … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The great gift of solitude is that although you might think that it provokes introspection, actually the very opposite is true - you can lose all sense of self."

-Neil Ansell, The Last Wilderness, A Journey into Silence

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16. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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  • nature
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17. 21st Century Yokel

By: Tom Cox

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or … read more

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  • memoir
  • british literature
  • humor
  • animals
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
  • audiobook
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18. Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

By: Lev Parikian

4.26

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

This is the miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
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19. The Heeding

By: Rob Cowen

4.14

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The world changed in 2020. Gradually at first, then quickly and irreversibly, the patterns by which… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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20. All the Grey Cats (The Aubrey and Hyde Thrillers Book 4)

By: Craig Thomas

4.18

Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition

In the blazing heat of a war-torn Kathmandu, Aubrey’s oldest enemy returns to settle the score…Desp… read more

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9 best-selling audiobook books like 21st Century Yokel by Tom Cox

Transform Your Habits

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Wilding

Isabella Tree

4.46

Transform Your Habits

52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn’t Get Taught At School

James Felton

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Rainforests of Britain

Guy Shrubsole

4.30

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16 Top nonfiction books like Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Nicklas Brendborg

3.92

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