Anthill
By: Edward O. Wilson
3.67
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
Astonishing, inspirational, even magical: a naturalist’s novel about an Alabama boy who heroically …
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1. A Thousand Acres
By: Jane Smiley
3.82
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres
2. Deadeye Dick
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages, Paperback
Deadeye Dickis Kurt Vonnegut's funny, chillingly satirical look at the death of innocence. Amid a t… read more
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- novels
- fiction
3. The World Without Us
By: Alan Weisman
4.09
Format: 296 pages,
A penetrating, page-turning tour of a post-human Earth In The World Without Us, Alan Weisman offers… read more
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- nature
4. GodPretty in the Tobacco Field
By: Kim Michele Richardson
4.27
Format: 359 pages, Paperback
Nameless, Kentucky, in 1969 is a hardscrabble community where jobs are few and poverty is a simple … read more
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- fiction
5. Havboka
By: Morten A. Strøksnes
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
Kunsten a fange en kjempehai fra en gummibat pa et stort hav gjennom fire arstider. To menn i en li… read more
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- animals
- nature
6. American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
By: Dan Flores
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book PrizeAmerica's Great Plains once possess… read more
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7. Homeland and Other Stories
By: Barbara Kingsolver
3.87
Format: None pages,
Homeland and Other Storiesoffers comic, often heart-warming but always true to life tales told as o… read more
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8. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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- nature
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
9. Nora Webster
By: Colm Tóibín
3.63
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
From one of contemporary literature's most acclaimed and beloved authors comes this magnificent new… read more
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10. The Dig
By: John Preston
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk the… read more
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11. The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
By: Susan Orlean
4.22
Format: 160 pages,
The Orchid Thiefis Susan Orlean's tale of an amazing obsession. Determined to clone an endangered f… read more
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12. 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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- animals
- nature
"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
13. Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
By: Evan Osnos
4.24
Format: 465 pages, Hardcover
After a decade abroad, the National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize– winning writer Evan Osnos retur… read more
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"In all, just 158 American families had donated half of all the money to candidates on the ballot [in the 2016 election]."-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"You've got your CEOs pulling four hundred or five hundred times what the American man does. Is there any man worth four hundred or five hundred other men? I've never met one. Have you?" -David Efaw i…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"It's not as simple as "this guy is with us on everything - or he's not!" she said. "I think the left imagines that in order for us to make progress, everyone has to agree about everything. I don't th…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
"After residents had secured the major markers of wealth - the home, the right schools, the serenity of private aviation - they turned their attention to the real game in town: the refining of advanta…"-Evan Osnos, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury
14. Diary of a Young Naturalist
By: Dara McAnulty
4.21
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more
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- nature
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist
15. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
By: Susan Rogers
3.82
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
This Is What It Sounds Like is a journey into the science and soul of music that reveals the secret… read more
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16. Last Mercy (Emma Last #7)
By: Mary Stone
4.56
Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition
At the mercy of a killer. Overwhelmed with grief and anger, Special Agent Emma Last is now haunt… read more
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17. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
By: Elizabeth Kolbert
4.10
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more
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- biology
- nature
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
18. Poet Warrior: A Memoir
By: Joy Harjo
4.35
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo offers a vivid, lyrical, and inspiring call for love and justice in this co… read more
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"Our physical living is held together by plant sacrifice. We eat, wear, and are sheltered by plants and plant material. Nearly all of our medicines are plant-derived. We need to take time with them, g…"-Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir
19. Miss Iceland
By: Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla is a budding female novelist who was born in the remote district of Dal… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- novels
"Dalla mia coscienza alle tue labbra c'è un oceano insormontabile."-Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Miss Iceland
"It’s better than anything either Laxness or Thórberger Thordarson write. We might be talking about a new Nobel Prize winner, Hekla."-Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Miss Iceland
"Calculo mentalmente. Si cada día trabajo nueve horas y duermo siete, me quedan ocho para escribir y leer. Si quiero escribir de noche, nadie me lo impedirá. Igual que nadie me animará a hacerlo. Nadi…"-Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, Miss Iceland
20. Anthill
By: Edward O. Wilson
3.67
Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition
Astonishing, inspirational, even magical: a naturalist’s novel about an Alabama boy who heroically … read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- biology
- animals
- fiction
- contemporary
- novels
- conservation
- book club
- nature
