10 Best nonfiction books like The Eye of the Crocodile by Val Plumwood

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The Eye of the Crocodile

By: Val Plumwood

4.17

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the develop…

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1. Ariel

By: Sylvia Plath

4.19

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Sylvia Plath's celebrated collection. When Sylvia Plath died, she not only left behind a prolifi… read more

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  • feminism
"I do not fear it: I have been there."

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"I could not run without having to run forever"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Stasis in darkness. Then the substanceless blue"

-Sylvia Plath, Ariel

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2. The Left Hand of Darkness

By: Ursula K. Le Guin , Lech Jęczmyk

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human… read more

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  • feminism
"The king was pregnant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Truth is a matter of the imagination."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"The light is the left hand of darkness"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

"Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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3. The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (Georges Gorski #1)

By: Graeme Macrae Burnet

3.80

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings qu… read more

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4. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • nature
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5. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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6. A Year in Provence

By: Peter Mayle

3.67

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to r… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. My Cousin Rachel

By: Daphne du Maurier

3.16

Format: 315 pages, ebook

Orphaned at an early age, Philip Ashley is raised by his benevolent older cousin, Ambrose. Resolute… read more

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8. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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9. Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

By: Jonathan Lethem , Vivian Gornick

3.61

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle wi… read more

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10. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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11. The Living Mountain

By: Robert Macfarlane , Nan Shepherd

4.50

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate Cover Edition for . The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of t… read more

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12. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more

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13. Inseparable

By: Simone de Beauvoir

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A never-before-published novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood fr… read more

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  • feminism
"How old do you have to be to think: this is forever?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"She was often late, not because she didn't care, but because she had too many contradictory cares."

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"I didn't understand: you don't believe what you believe on purpose. Could you be punished because certain ideas come into your mind?"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

"to fight against time, against forgetting, against death, to do justice to this absolute presence of the instant, to this eternity of the instant, which will have been forever"

-Simone de Beauvoir, Inseparable

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14. Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

By: Irene Solà

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Escondida entre riscos lejanos, en algún remoto lugar de las Guillerías transitado por cazadores de… read more

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"Aunque lo peor de todo, musitó, no es morirse. Todos nos tenemos que morir un día u otro. Lo peor es la soledad."

-Irene Solà, Te di ojos y miraste las tinieblas

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15. Canto yo y la montaña baila

By: Irene Solà

4.24

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Primero llegan la tormenta y el rayo y la muerte de Domènec, el campesino poeta. Luego, Dolceta, qu… read more

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  • nature
"La eternidad, cosa ligera. Cosa diaria, cosa pequeña."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Em diu coses boniques que no entenc però sí que entenc"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"Quan arribés a casa s'hauria de fer escalfar aigua per rentar-se el fred i la plutja"

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

"S'hi està bé aquí sota. S'hi està bé, en aquest bosc. En aquest tros de terra. En aquest tros de món."

-Irene Solà, Canto yo y la montaña baila

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16. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

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  • animals
  • nature
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17. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

By: David Graeber

4.20

Format: 692 pages, Hardcover

A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"

-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

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18. Una ballena es un país

By: Isabel Zapata

4.26

Format: 95 pages, Paperback

Un lobo marsupial extinto es un fantasma. Una tortuga es un espíritu antiguo que se pasea por una i… read more

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19. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

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20. On Women

By: Susan Sontag

3.61

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A pithy and brilliant introduction to Susan Sontag’s writing on women, gathering early essays on ag… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Dividing time into Past, Present, and Future suggests that reality is distributed equally among three parts, but in fact the past is the most real of all. The future is, inevitably, an accumulation o…"

-Susan Sontag, On Women

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21. Panza de burro

By: Andrea Abreu López

3.80

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

«Reconozco que al principio, cuando Panza de burro solo había crecido unos capitulitos, pensé que s… read more

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"A la altura del cruce vi la forma del cuerpo de Isora al final del camino. Era verla allá, al final de la carretera, justo en el rasante, donde el camino se volvía casi vertical, y me golpeaba una al…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

"Y ya las ranitas del estanque en el que ya nadie nadaba empezaban a cantar y parecía como una canción antigua, una canción que venía de siglos atrás, de cuando Isora y yo todavía no éramos amigas per…"

-Andrea Abreu López, Panza de burro

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22. Stolen

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that fo… read more

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"Plötsligt började áhkku sjunga, högt, med klar röst. En samisk psalm. Hanna stod en bra bit bort men hon vände sig om, lyssnade och sjönk ihop, såg ut att kunna ramla. "

-Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen

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23. Huaco retrato

By: Gabriela Wiener

3.89

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
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24. Connemara

By: Nicolas Mathieu

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hélène a bientôt quarante ans. Elle est née dans une petite ville de l’Est de la France. Elle a fai… read more

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"... autour de cette place banale, avec son PMU, sa boulangerie, son agence immobilière, et non loin de l'église toujours vide, un monde jouissait pleinement de son sursis. Et en ce beau dimanche de m…"

-Nicolas Mathieu, Connemara

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25. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • ecology
  • environment
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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26. The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.53

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkn… read more

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"It was as if her life had been brought to a full stop: she couldn't look forward, couldn't picture what tomorrow night bring."

-Ragnar Jónasson, The Darkness (Hidden Iceland #1)

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27. Crip Negativity

By: J. Logan Smilges

4.42

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Imagining anti-ableist liberation beyond the rubrics of access and inclusion In the thirty years s… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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28. The Eye of the Crocodile

By: Val Plumwood

4.17

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the develop… read more

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  • ecology
  • feminism
  • gender
  • animals
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
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29. El intruso

By: Jean-Luc Nancy

4.14

Format: 51 pages, Paperback

"El intruso no es otro que yo mismo y el hombre mismo. No otro que el mismo que no termina de alter… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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30. A Sunny Place for Shady People

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with … read more

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31. Elogio de las vagabundas: Hierbas, árboles y flores a la conquista del mundo (Spanish Edition)

By: Gilles Clément

4.25

Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition

El perejil gigante del Cáucaso, las onagras, el hinojo, la ambrosía… Arrastradas por el viento, des… read more

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7 Top philosophy books like The Eye of the Crocodile by Val Plumwood

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Walden

Henry David Thoreau

2.57

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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber

4.20

Transform Your Habits

On Women

Susan Sontag

3.61

Transform Your Habits

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Andreas Malm

3.96

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15 Top contemporary books like Canto yo y la montaña baila by Irene Solà

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Permagel

Eva Baltasar

3.85

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Canto yo y la montaña baila

Irene Solà

4.24

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La mala costumbre

Alana S. Portero

4.55

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Carcoma

Layla Martínez

4.17

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