8 must-read memoir books like Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal by Jo Brown

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Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

By: Jo Brown

4.68

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small won…

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1. The Railway Children

By: E. Nesbit

4.02

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-… read more

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"Girls are just as clever as boys, and don’t you forget it!"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"I'd like to marry a lady who had trances, and only woke up once or twice a year"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"It's an odd thing- the softer and more easily hurt a woman is the better she can screw herself up to do what has to be done."

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

"Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing a book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right--in the way that…"

-E. Nesbit, The Railway Children

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2. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

3. True Nature

By: Barbara Bash

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea , writer-illustrator Barbara Bash bri… read more

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4. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

Similar categories in Dawn French's The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

5. To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

By: Diana Beresford-Kroeger

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Canadian botanist, biochemist and visionary Diana Beresford-Kroeger's startling insights into the h… read more

Similar categories in Diana Beresford-Kroeger's To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe."

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"The truth was right there, so simple, a child could grasp it. Trees were responsible for the most basic necessity of life, the air we breathe...cutting down trees was a suicidal act."

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"Trees don't simply maintain the conditions necessary for human and most animal life on earth, trees created these conditions through the community of forests. Trees paved the way for the human family…"

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

"...I took a deep breath and a first step, and both eventually led me to the knowledge that I was capable of things bigger than I had imagined. I think every child should have an experience like the f…"

-Diana Beresford-Kroeger, To Speak for the Trees: My Life's Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest

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6. The Wedding Dress Repair Shop

By: Trisha Ashley

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Can her heart be mended too? Garland Fairford has her dream job as a historical Costumier in London… read more

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7. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

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8. Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

By: Qing Li

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shinrin = Forest Yoku = Bathing Shinrin-Yoku or forest bathing is the practice of spending time … read more

Similar categories in Qing Li's Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Children who have fun in nature will become adults to care for and protect it. If we let our children play outside now, they will become the green architects of the future…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"In the end, it is our children’s relationship with the natural world that determines its future. If we let our children go into the forest, they will become adults who will protect it."

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"Czy zwróciłeś kiedyś uwagę, jak przyjemnie chodzi się boso po piasku, trawie albo ziemi?Nie bierze się to tylko z ulgi po zdjęciu sztywnych butów albo zrzuceniu wysokich obcasów. Kiedy dotykasz podło…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

"Wszyscy znamy cudowny zapach lasu po ulewie. Kiedy długo nie pada, w glebie i na skałach gromadzą się olejki roślinne. To jeden ze sposobów roślin na przetrwanie okresów suszy. Podczas deszczu woda u…"

-Qing Li, Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

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9. Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold

By: Daisy Johnson

3.75

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impos… read more

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10. This One Wild and Precious Life: A Hopeful Path Forward in a Fractured World

By: Sarah Wilson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Will you sleep through the revolution? Or do you want to wake up and reclaim your one wild and prec… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Wilson's This One Wild and Precious Life: A Hopeful Path Forward in a Fractured World book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • environment
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • nature
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11. Alison

By: Lizzy Stewart

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter … read more

Similar categories in Lizzy Stewart's Alison book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • art
  • graphic novels
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12. Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

By: Florence Welch

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Lyrics and never-before-seen poetry and sketches from Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine. … read more

Similar categories in Florence Welch's Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We are all too young to die."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"I am teaching myself how to be free"

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"Maybe I’ve always been more comfortable in chaos."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

"I like people who've seen some darkness. The haunted ones."

-Florence Welch, Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry

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13. The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary

By: Melissa Harrison

4.21

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

A nature diary by award-winning novelist, nature writer and hit podcaster Melissa Harrison, followi… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • nature
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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14. Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light

By: Matt Gaw

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight, starlight, the ethereal glow of snow in winter ... When you flick off a switch, other fo… read more

Similar categories in Matt Gaw's Under the Stars: A Journey Into Light book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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15. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

By: John Lewis-Stempel

4.02

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more

Similar categories in John Lewis-Stempel's Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
  • science
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."

-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

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16. The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest

By: Neil Ansell

4.11

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journe… read more

Similar categories in Neil Ansell's The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • natural history
Cover of Keeping a Nature Journal: Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You by Clare Walker Leslie

17. Keeping a Nature Journal: Deepen Your Connection with the Natural World All Around You

By: Clare Walker Leslie

4.49

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

Originally published in 2000 with endorsements from E.O. Wilson and Jane Goodall, Clare Walker Lesl… read more

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  • art
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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18. Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

By: Jo Brown

4.68

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small won… read more

Similar categories in Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • art
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biology
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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19. The Green Sketching Handbook: Relax, Unwind and Reconnect with Nature

By: Ali Foxon

4.39

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

'A warm and inspiring invitation to put down our phones, pick up a pencil and start really looking … read more

Similar categories in Ali Foxon's The Green Sketching Handbook: Relax, Unwind and Reconnect with Nature book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

20. We'll Prescribe You a Cat

By: Syou Ishida

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more

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21. Mon automne Cosy

By: Caroline Millet

4.74

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

À mi-chemin entre le journal, l’almanach, l’herbier, le livre de recettes et le manuel de bricolage… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Millet's Mon automne Cosy book and Jo Brown's Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

  • nonfiction

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Dawn French

3.87

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Diana Beresford-Kroeger

4.35

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Shinrin-Yoku: The Art and Science of Forest Bathing

Qing Li

3.99

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Sarah Wilson

3.79

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Vaiva Rykštaitė

3.80

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The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

Florence Williams

3.97

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Benas Lastauskas

3.83

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3.99

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