15 Best nature books like The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding Wildlife by Dave Hall

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The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding Wildlife

By: Dave Hall

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Practical guidance on how to achieve a deeper level of nature observation From the co-founder of…

If you liked the nature plot in The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding Wildlife by Dave Hall , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. This Book Is Gay

By: None , Juno Dawson

3.77

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Lesbian. Bisexual. Queer. Transgender. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of … read more

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"Living with stress and secrets is both stressful and secretive."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Who do you want to be? There's only one rule: Always be true to yourself."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Your sexuality or gender is as natural as your eye color, and you should never be ashamed of it."

-None, This Book Is Gay

"Let me tell you something, boys and girls, you can "straight act" all you want, but if you're sleeping with your own sex, to the rest of the world, you're as gay as John Waters living in a pink tent …"

-None, This Book Is Gay

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2. A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

By: Ransom Riggs

4.12

Format: 496 pages, ebook

The #1 bestselling series returns with a thrilling new story arc set in America! Vintage photogr… read more

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"Good gravy,"

-Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

"I think I'm in love."

-Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

"There´s always use in fighting,"

-Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

"It's a brave new world, Mr. Portman, And we'll be right behind you."

-Ransom Riggs, A Map of Days (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #4)

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3. Rise of the Governor (The Walking Dead: Novels, #1)

By: Robert Kirkman , Jay Bonansinga

3.86

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Based on "The Walking Dead" graphic novels/comic books and the series starring Andrew Lincoln ("Tea… read more

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4. The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration

By: Bernd Heinrich

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed scientist and author Bernd Heinrich has returned every year since boyhood to a beloved pa… read more

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5. The Trees in My Forest

By: Bernd Heinrich

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The soaring majesty of a virgin forest and the intertwined relationships of plant, animal and man a… read more

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6. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

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"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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7. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

By: Ari Shapiro

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more

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"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."

-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

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8. Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

By: Tori Dunlap

4.10

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the globally-recognized personal finance educator and social media star behind Her First $100K… read more

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"Feminism that isn't intersectional, that doesn't help others and work to change systemic inequality, is not feminism."

-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

"…the culture [had]…a manipulative but disingenuous 'we're not coworkers, we're family' mind-set. (Always be wary of a company that says seemingly well-meaning shit as this. We share a cubicle, not a …"

-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

"But when you confuse shames emotional alarm (I feel disconnected from money, what do I want to do about that?) with who you are (I’ll never get my shit together, I’m just bad with money), you’ve been…"

-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

"We live in a patriarchal world—a system that aids and abets inequality. In this system that has gatekept financial information and tools from marginalized groups, it is an act of protest to be financ…"

-Tori Dunlap, Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love

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9. Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

By: Conor Knighton

4.26

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the Emmy-winning CBS Sunday Morning correspondent, an entertaining chronicle of his year spent… read more

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"Shelton Johnson may just be the best park ranger who ever lived."

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"...tell me again about how you used to watch movies in a car. It sounded so cool to me. And so, on one of the last nights of that summer, my parents decided to re-create a drive-in movie in our drive…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

"In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national…"

-Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park

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10. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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

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

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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Cover of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner

12. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

By: Rebecca Renner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more

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Cover of The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #6) by Ransom Riggs

13. The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #6)

By: Ransom Riggs

4.22

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

The fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the Miss Peregrine's Peculi… read more

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"Oh for heaven's sake, you provincial boob, I can speak better English than you can."

-Ransom Riggs, The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #6)

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14. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

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"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Cover of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

15. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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16. Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

By: Molly Shannon

4.13

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

A candid, compulsively readable, hilarious, and heartbreaking memoir of resilience and redemption b… read more

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"But I thought, I can do whatever I want. I can be friends with whoever I want. I'm going to be friends with the freaks and the geeks and I don't have to fit into any clique. And I'm Free! And I like …"

-Molly Shannon, Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Cover of Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3) by Ransom Riggs

17. Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)

By: Ransom Riggs

4.14

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of pec… read more

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"What a beautiful day to go to hell"

-Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)

"You have your world to rebuild, and I have mine."

-Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)

"Bibliotekens förseningsavgifter är ganska dryga. Tio piskrapp per dag, och det är för pocketböcker."

-Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)

"My parents and their world represented a return to sanity and predictability, something I was longing for after all this madness."

-Ransom Riggs, Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #3)

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

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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Cover of The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #5) by Ransom Riggs

19. The Conference of the Birds (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #5)

By: Ransom Riggs

4.09

Format: 400 pages, ebook

A FRAGILE PEACE. AN APOCRYPHAL WARNING. CHAOS WAITING IN THE HEART OF THE STORM. With his dying … read more

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Cover of The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World by Oliver Milman

20. The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World

By: Oliver Milman

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From ants scurrying under leaf litter to bees able to fly higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, insects ar… read more

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Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

21. 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

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Cover of Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal

22. Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

By: Elie Mystal

4.59

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

According to commentator and lawyer Elie Mystal, Republicans are wrong when they tell you the First… read more

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Cover of Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

23. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Cover of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhuis

24. Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

By: Michelle Nijhuis

4.10

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement—told through the lives and ideas of the peopl… read more

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Cover of Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals by Laurie Zaleski

25. Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

By: Laurie Zaleski

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring and moving memoir of the author's turbulent life with 600 rescue animals. Laurie Z… read more

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"That was the end of church for Mom. She retained custody of the kids, and Dad got custody of God."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

"Many years ago, I made up my mind that, even if a person is 95 percent bad, you focus on the 5 percent that's good and decent---that's what you hold on to."

-Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals

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26. Laziness Does Not Exist

By: Devon Price

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From social psychologist Dr. Devon Price, a conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human … read more

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"If someone's behavior makes no sense to us, passing judgment on it feels very natural."

-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

"This tendency to blame people for their own pain is comforting, in a twisted way: it allows us to close up our hearts and ignore the suffering of others."

-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

"We live in a world where hard work is rewarded and having needs and limitations is seen as a source of shame. It's no wonder so many of us are constantly overexerting ourselves, saying yes out of fea…"

-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

"If you're entitled to moments of rest, of imperfection, of laziness and sloth, then so are homeless people, and people with depression, and people who are addicted to drugs. If your life has value no…"

-Devon Price, Laziness Does Not Exist

Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

27. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

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"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

Cover of Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America by Peter Wohlleben

28. Forest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America

By: Peter Wohlleben

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When you walk in the woods, do you use all five senses to explore your surroundings? For most of us… read more

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Cover of Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori

29. Around the World in 80 Plants

By: Jonathan Drori

4.43

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Often beautiful, sometimes deadly, but constantly ingenious, plants are the sources of life and del… read more

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Cover of The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding Wildlife by Dave Hall

30. The Naturalist's Companion: A Field Guide to Observing and Understanding Wildlife

By: Dave Hall

3.80

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Practical guidance on how to achieve a deeper level of nature observation From the co-founder of… read more

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24 best-selling nonfiction books like The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration by Bernd Heinrich

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Crows: Encounters with the Wise Guys of the Avian World

Candace Savage

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Thing with Feathers: The Surprising Lives of Birds and What They Reveal About Being Human

Noah Strycker

3.77

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Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod

Gary Paulsen

2.83

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The Trial and Death of Socrates

Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper

3.63

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