9 best-selling memoir books like Rootbound: Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent

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Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

By: Alice Vincent

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather's garden - the freedom, the calm, the beau…

"London is my most compelling lover; I am hooked on it, for all its mistreatment. Expensive and demanding and, if you know where to look, beautiful."

-Alice Vincent, Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

"London is my most compelling lover; I am hooked on it, for all its mistreatment. Expensive and demanding and, if you know where to look, beautiful."

-Alice Vincent, Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

If you liked the memoir plot in Rootbound: Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes

By: Rick Darke , Piet Oudolf

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"If you can't get to the High Line. . . this is the next best thing." --The Washington Post Before … read more

Similar categories in Rick Darke's Gardens of the High Line: Elevating the Nature of Modern Landscapes book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • gardening
  • nonfiction
Cover of Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot

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

Similar categories in George Monbiot's Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
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3. The Darling Buds of May

By: H.E. Bates

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Darling Buds of May, which came out in 1958, was the first of five Larkin novels and in it read… read more

Similar categories in H.E. Bates's The Darling Buds of May book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

4. The Wild Other: A Memoir

By: Clover Stroud

4.24

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Clover Stroud's idyllic childhood in rural England was shattered when a horrific riding accident le… read more

Similar categories in Clover Stroud's The Wild Other: A Memoir book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

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5. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nature
  • memoir
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Cover of Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

6. Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

By: Rory Stewart

4.36

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing insider's account of ten extraordinary years in Parliament from Rory Stewart, former Cabi… read more

Similar categories in Rory Stewart's Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Proper searching could stop drugs being carried through the gates. In the US and Sweden, where there was proper searching, I had discovered, the drug rates were far lower. But when I shared these sug…"

-Rory Stewart, Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

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7. 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

Similar categories in Isabella Tree's Wilding book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • 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

Cover of Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party by Michael Cragg

8. Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party

By: Michael Cragg

4.28

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Using the arrival of the Spice Girls as a jumping-off point, this fascinating new narrative will ex… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cragg's Reach for the Stars: 1996–2006: Fame, Fallout and Pop’s Final Party book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nonfiction
Cover of Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age by Katherine May

9. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

Similar categories in Katherine May's Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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10. Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild

By: Lucy Jones

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Today many of us live indoor lives, disconnected from the natural world as never before. And yet na… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Jones's Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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11. Oersoep

By: Bregje Hofstede

3.77

Format: 214 pages, Paperback

Iets wendde zich in mij, zoals je sommige pennen draait om de punt naar buiten te laten komen – en … read more

Similar categories in Bregje Hofstede's Oersoep book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • audiobook
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12. UNMASKED

By: Ellie Middleton

4.24

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

Brought to you by Penguin. Whether you are neurodivergent, suspect you might be, or want to be a… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Middleton's UNMASKED book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Outrun: A Memoir by Amy Liptrot

13. The Outrun: A Memoir

By: Amy Liptrot

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDA… read more

Similar categories in Amy Liptrot's The Outrun: A Memoir book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"I'm filling the void with new knowledge and moments of beauty. The dangerous thoughts will happen - and while I'm experiencing them I feel like that's the way I will feel for ever - but I just have t…"

-Amy Liptrot, The Outrun: A Memoir

Cover of Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature by Julia Bradbury

14. Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature

By: Julia Bradbury

4.02

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'It's hard not to be persuaded by Bradbury's enthusiasm and positivity' … read more

Similar categories in Julia Bradbury's Walk Yourself Happy: Find your path to health and healing in nature book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Tidal Year by Freya Bromley

15. The Tidal Year

By: Freya Bromley

4.31

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Freya is still searching. For four years, she's been looking for a way to fill the empty space her … read more

Similar categories in Freya Bromley's The Tidal Year book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
Cover of Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth by Rebecca Humphries

16. Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth

By: Rebecca Humphries

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Actor, writer and hopeless romantic Rebecca Humphries had often been called crazy by her boyfriend.… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Humphries's Why Did You Stay?: A Memoir About Self-Worth book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

By: Philippa Perry

3.90

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, p… read more

Similar categories in Philippa Perry's The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t) book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • relationships
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Manche Menschen verwechseln Liebe mit etwas, das einen überkommt, dabei ist sie viel mehr. Liebe äußert sich in dem, was wir tun. Liebe ist nicht passiv."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Wir alle sind verletzliche Wesen, die lernen müssen, dass man stärker ist, wenn man zu seiner Verletzlichkeit steht, als wenn sich hinter einer Fassade falscher Stärke versteckt."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Be mindful of the language you use with others. A good way to start is to speak in 'I' statements, which define your own experience, and not 'you' statements, which are a judgement on the other person"

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

"Manchmal bedeutet authentisch zu sein, dass wir nicht so nett sind, wie wir gern wären. Wenn Ihnen das ein schlechtes Gewissen bereitet, denken Sie daran: Ein schlechtes Gewissen ist besser als Groll."

-Philippa Perry, The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t)

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18. The Success Myth: Our obsession with achievement is a trap. This is how to break free

By: Emma Gannon

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Emma Gannon was thriving in her portfolio career, enjoying a happy personal life and to anyone look… read more

Similar categories in Emma Gannon's The Success Myth: Our obsession with achievement is a trap. This is how to break free book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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19. Down to Earth

By: Monty Don

4.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This is the distillation of 50 years of gardening experience. It has all the tips and essential pie… read more

Similar categories in Monty Don's Down to Earth book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Rootbound: Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent

20. Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

By: Alice Vincent

3.50

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather's garden - the freedom, the calm, the beau… read more

Similar categories in Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • relationships
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • gardening
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"London is my most compelling lover; I am hooked on it, for all its mistreatment. Expensive and demanding and, if you know where to look, beautiful."

-Alice Vincent, Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

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21. Drawn to the Garden

By: Caroline Quentin

4.56

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Find solace in your outdoor space in this delightful horticultural journey with actress Caroline Qu… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Quentin's Drawn to the Garden book and Alice Vincent's Rootbound: Rewilding a Life

  • gardening
  • nonfiction

12 Best audiobook books like Rootbound: Rewilding a Life by Alice Vincent

Transform Your Habits

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Wilding

Isabella Tree

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

Katherine May

3.62

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16 Best audiobook books like Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within by Rory Stewart

Transform Your Habits

Politics On the Edge: A Memoir From Within

Rory Stewart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

Transform Your Habits

How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't

Ian Dunt

4.45

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