15 must-read nonfiction books like A Tree a Day by Amy-Jane Beer

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A Tree a Day

By: Amy-Jane Beer

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Immerse yourself in the beauty and power of nature with a different tree for every day of the year.…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Tree a Day by Amy-Jane Beer , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

By: Mary Wollstonecraft

3.44

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

In Maria , Wollstonecraft pursues in fictional form themes set forth in 'A Vindication of the Right… read more

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"Was not the world a vast prison, and women born slaves?"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"She would stand and behold the waves rolling, and think of the voice that could still the tumultuous deep."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"Men who are inferior to their fellow men, are always most anxious to establish their superiority over women."

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

"...or like the flash which divides the threatening clouds of angry heaven only to display the horror which darkness shrouded"

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman

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2. The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter

By: Colin Tudge

3.95

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines sti… read more

Similar categories in Colin Tudge's The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees by Robert  Llewellyn, Nancy Ross Hugo

3. Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees

By: Robert Llewellyn , Nancy Ross Hugo

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever looked at a tree? That may sound like a silly question, but there is so much more to … read more

Similar categories in Robert Llewellyn's Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Tim Flannery, Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst, Suzanne Simard

4. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

Similar categories in Tim Flannery's The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

5. The Brightest Star in the Sky

By: Marian Keyes

2.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Welcome to 66 Star Street . . . In the top-floor flat lives music exec Katie. She spends her days f… read more

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6. The Santa Klaus Murder

By: Mavis Doriel Hay

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

When it comes to Christmas stories, one typically thinks of those that embody the spirit of the sea… read more

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7. The Secret History of Christmas

By: Bill Bryson

3.84

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… read more

Similar categories in Bill Bryson's The Secret History of Christmas book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction
  • history
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8. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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9. The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees

By: Douglas W. Tallamy

4.35

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

“With our hearts and minds focused on the stewardship of the only planet we have, the best way to e… read more

Similar categories in Douglas W. Tallamy's The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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10. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

By: Thomas Halliday

4.13

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Halliday's Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"

-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

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11. A Stroke of the Pen

By: Terry Pratchett

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Far away and long ago, when dragons still existed and the only arcade game was ping-pong in black a… read more

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"Dragons Invade The Crumbling Castle Area,’ shouted the first page (this was the headline), and then he said in an ordinary voice: ‘For full details hear Page Three."

-Terry Pratchett, A Stroke of the Pen

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12. Ten Birds That Changed the World

By: Stephen Moss

3.97

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

For the whole of human history, we have lived alongside birds. We have hunted and domesticated them… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Moss's Ten Birds That Changed the World book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • nature
  • science
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13. The Perfect Golden Circle

By: Benjamin Myers

3.92

Format: 211 pages, Hardcover

From a British literary sensation, the story of two rural outcasts and the crop circles they create… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Myers's The Perfect Golden Circle book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nature
Cover of The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter by Jessica Harrison

14. The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories: From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter

By: Jessica Harrison

3.42

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive storie… read more

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Cover of The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman

15. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

By: Meg Lowman

4.05

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationis… read more

Similar categories in Meg Lowman's The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of I Don't: The Case Against Marriage by Clementine Ford

16. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

Similar categories in Clementine Ford's I Don't: The Case Against Marriage book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows by John Koenig

17. The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

By: John Koenig

4.46

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s undeniably thrilling to find words for our strangest feelings…Koeni… read more

Similar categories in John Koenig's The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction
"liberosis n. the desire to care less about things—to loosen your grip on your life, to stop glancing behind you every few steps, afraid that someone will snatch it from you before you reach the end z…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"harke n. a painful memory that you look back upon with unexpected fondness, even though you remember having dreaded it at the time; a tough experience that has since been overridden by the pride of h…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"Maybe there is no single self to speak of. Maybe you're a shifting collage of many different personas, each as authentic as the next. A kaleidoscope of ever-moving fragments, reflecting a thousand li…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

"But maybe all along, we had the story backward. Maybe we were the ones who cast out the jungle, who striped it naked, and tried to teach it good and evil, breaking it down into pieces that served a p…"

-John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Cover of The Elephants of Thula Thula (Elephant Whisperer, 3) by Françoise Malby-Anthony

18. The Elephants of Thula Thula (Elephant Whisperer, 3)

By: Françoise Malby-Anthony

4.45

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Françoise Malby-Anthony's The Elephants of Thula Thula is the story about an extraordinary herd of … read more

Similar categories in Françoise Malby-Anthony's The Elephants of Thula Thula (Elephant Whisperer, 3) book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction
  • nature
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19. Birdgirl

By: Mya-Rose Craig

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Discover a powerful, evocative and urgent new young voice in nature writing*WINNER OF THE SOMERSET … read more

Similar categories in Mya-Rose Craig's Birdgirl book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of A Tree a Day by Amy-Jane Beer

20. A Tree a Day

By: Amy-Jane Beer

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Immerse yourself in the beauty and power of nature with a different tree for every day of the year.… read more

Similar categories in Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of A Bird a Day by Dominic Couzens

21. A Bird a Day

By: Dominic Couzens

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

366 beautiful birds from around the world to enjoy all year. The beauty and fascination of birds… read more

Similar categories in Dominic Couzens's A Bird a Day book and Amy-Jane Beer's A Tree a Day

  • nonfiction

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Colin Tudge

3.95

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The Secret History of Christmas

Bill Bryson

3.84

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Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

4.13

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Ten Birds That Changed the World

Stephen Moss

3.97

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Chanel Contos

4.56

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Anna Funder

4.13

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Hannah Ferguson

4.29

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