12 best-selling biography books like One More Warbler: A Life with Birds by Victor Emanuel

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One More Warbler: A Life with Birds

By: Victor Emanuel

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Victor Emanuel is widely considered one of America’s leading birders. He has observed more than six…

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1. Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

By: Kenn Kaufman

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

At sixteen, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of the high school where he was student council president and … read more

Similar categories in Kenn Kaufman's Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder book and Victor Emanuel's One More Warbler: A Life with Birds

  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
"I could have sworn I saw some kind of mutual salute pass between Rich and the skua"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"The list total isn't important, but the birds themselves are important. Every bird you see. So the list is just a frivolous incentive for birding, but the birding itself is worthwhile."

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"But in the early 1970s, we were not birdwatching. We were birding, and that made all the difference. We were out to seek, to discover, to chase, to learn, to find as many different kinds of birds as …"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

"We did not know that within twenty years Ted would be recognized as one of the greatest field ornithologists of all time, the ultimate authority on the ultimate bird continent. Mercifully, we did not…"

-Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder

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2. State of Wonder

By: Ann Patchett

3.90

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual tra… read more

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"One must not be shy where language is concerned."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"Questions are for the benefit of every student, not just the one raising his hand."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

"It was not as natural as it appeared. It was more like milking a cow, easy as long as someone else was doing it."

-Ann Patchett, State of Wonder

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3. Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific In A Raft

By: Thor Heyerdahl

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

Five men in search of a mythical hero journey from Peru to Polynesia in this classic account of nau… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year by Neil Hayward

4. Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year

By: Neil Hayward

3.82

Format: None pages,

Early in 2013 Neil Hayward was at a crossroads. He didn't want to open a bakery or whatever else ex… read more

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  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
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5. The Grail Bird: Hot on the Trail of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker

By: Tim Gallagher

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • nature
  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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6. Bird by Bird

By: Anne Lamott

4.24

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

A newer edition of this title can be found here. "Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

"You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too."

-Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

7. The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession

By: Mark Obmascik

3.47

Format: 185 pages,

For those who thought bird-watching was a sedate Sunday hobby, here comes the rollicking tale of th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature

8. The Genius of Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

3.84

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

Birds are astonishingly intelligent creatures. According to revolutionary new research, some birds … read more

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9. To See Every Bird on Earth: A Father, a Son, and a Lifetime Obsession

By: Dan Koeppel

3.80

Format: None pages,

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10. We Are Never Meeting In Real Life

By: Samantha Irby

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Sometimes you just have to laugh, even when life is a dumpster fire. With We Are Never Meeting in R… read more

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11. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more

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12. Of a Feather: A Brief History of American Birding

By: Scott Weidensaul

3.33

Format: 194 pages,

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13. Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

By: Noah Strycker

4.00

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

Traveling to 41 countries in 2015 with a backpack and binoculars, Noah Strycker became the first pe… read more

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14. Earth's the Right Place for Love

By: Elizabeth Berg

4.11

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful new novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story … read more

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"Your girlfriend won't stay pretty for long. I myself was a hot tomato, but look at me now. 'Pretty' goes away, but what can come in its place is 'beautiful.' And that's better. Do you know what I mea…"

-Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

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15. The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

By: Alan Bradley

3.82

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiri… read more

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"Simple pleasures are best."

-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

"It was as black in the closet as old blood."

-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

"...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities."

-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

"I was me, I was Flavia. And I loved myself, even if no one else did."

-Alan Bradley, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce, #1)

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16. A Dangerous Business

By: Jane Smiley

3.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more

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17. The Maze (John Corey, #8)

By: Nelson DeMille

3.76

Format: 415 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille returns with a “genuinely thrilling” ( The New … read more

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18. The Spanish Daughter

By: Lorena Hughes

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The Washington Post Books to Read Now | Ms. Magazine Reads for the Rest of Us | Bustle Most Anticip… read more

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"What a foul mouth she had,"

-Lorena Hughes, The Spanish Daughter

"Soledad’s gaze was lost in a mysterious spot behind my head."

-Lorena Hughes, The Spanish Daughter

"I lowered my face, such was my shame, but they all took it as humility."

-Lorena Hughes, The Spanish Daughter

"She never listened to anyone but herself. And yet, I enjoyed her company more than anybody else’s."

-Lorena Hughes, The Spanish Daughter

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19. 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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  • nature
  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
Cover of Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery by Dorian Anderson

20. Birding Under the Influence: Cycling Across America in Search of Birds and Recovery

By: Dorian Anderson

4.20

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
Cover of The (Big) Year That Flew By by Arjan Dwarshuis

21. The (Big) Year That Flew By

By: Arjan Dwarshuis

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An epic tale of one passionate birder’s record-breaking adventure through 40 countries over 6 conti… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
Cover of A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future by David Attenborough

22. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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23. Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

By: Rebecca Heisman

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The captivating, little-known true story of a group of scientists and the methods and technology th… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Heisman's Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration book and Victor Emanuel's One More Warbler: A Life with Birds

  • nature
  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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24. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

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25. Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

By: Margaret Renkl

4.30

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in Alabama, Renkl was a devoted reader, an explorer of riverbeds and red-dirt roads, and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature
"The loss you don't know about is no less a loss, but it costs you nothing and so it causes you no pain."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

"When I didn't die, however, and then didn't die some more, I came one day to understand: I wasn't dying; I was grieving. I wasn't dying. Not yet."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

"Back on the caregiving roller coaster, I struggled to remember the lesson I had just learned so painfully with Mom: the end of caregiving isn't freedom. The end of caregiving is grief."

-Margaret Renkl, Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss

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26. Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir

By: Julia Zarankin

3.82

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A writer discovers an unexpected passion for birding, along with a new understanding of the world a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
Cover of The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness by Kenn Kaufman

27. The Birds That Audubon Missed: Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

By: Kenn Kaufman

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • birds
Cover of Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard by Joan E. Strassmann

28. Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard

By: Joan E. Strassmann

3.67

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A one-of-a-kind guide to birding locally that encourages readers to slow down and notice the specta… read more

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  • nature
  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
Cover of Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure by Susan Fox Rogers

29. Learning the Birds: A Midlife Adventure

By: Susan Fox Rogers

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"The thrill of quiet adventure. The constant hope of discovery. The reminder that the world is fill… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • birds
Cover of Keep Looking Up: Your Guide to the Powerful Healing of Birdwatching by Tammah Watts

30. Keep Looking Up: Your Guide to the Powerful Healing of Birdwatching

By: Tammah Watts

3.92

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

A warm, welcoming guide to birdwatching and its therapeutic and healing effects from a licensed the… read more

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  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of One More Warbler: A Life with Birds by Victor Emanuel

31. One More Warbler: A Life with Birds

By: Victor Emanuel

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Victor Emanuel is widely considered one of America’s leading birders. He has observed more than six… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature

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Kenn Kaufman

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Thor Heyerdahl

4.39

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Lost Among the Birds: Accidentally Finding Myself in One Very Big Year

Neil Hayward

3.82

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