6 best-selling science books like The Loneliest Polar Bear by Kale Williams

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The Loneliest Polar Bear

By: Kale Williams

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the hu…

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Cover of The Dead Don't Dance (Awakening #1) by Charles Martin

1. The Dead Don't Dance (Awakening #1)

By: Charles Martin

4.31

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

A sleepy rural town in South Carolina. The end of summer and a baby about to be born. But in the mi… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. If You Find Me

By: Emily Murdoch

4.00

Format: 10 pages,

There are some things you can't leave behind... A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national fore… read more

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  • audiobook

3. Arctic Dreams

By: Barry Lopez

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more

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4. The Sea Around Us

By: Rachel Carson , Ann H. Zwinger

3.79

Format: 704 pages,

The Sea Around Usis one of the most remarkably successful books ever written about the natural worl… read more

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5. Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice

By: Brené Brown

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Audio CD

With her previous bestsellers, Dr. Brene Brown helped us realize that vulnerability is the birthpla… read more

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6. Catalyst: A Rogue One Novel

By: James Luceno

4.60

Format: 431 pages, Hardcover

War is tearing the galaxy apart. For years the Republic and the Separatists have battled across the… read more

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7. The Carousel (The Locket, #3)

By: Richard Paul Evans

4.45

Format: 122 pages,

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8. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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9. Chaos Terminal (The Midsolar Murders, #2)

By: Mur Lafferty

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Paperback

Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to avoid it…but … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty

10. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

By: Caitlin Doughty

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."

-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

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11. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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12. Good Different

By: Meg Eden Kuyatt

4.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A extraordinary novel-in-verse about a neurodivergent girl who comes to understand and celebrate he… read more

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"Fight for words, even if it's hard."

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

"You may have different needs than some folks in your class, but that doesn't make you the ­«wrong» version and other people the «normal» version. You are Selah. And you are not the only one feeling t…"

-Meg Eden Kuyatt, Good Different

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13. Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present (DK Secret Histories)

By: D.K. Publishing

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Discover the stories behind the most shocking and infamous books ever published. Censorship of o… read more

Similar categories in D.K. Publishing's Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present (DK Secret Histories) book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. A Blizzard of Polar Bears (Alex Carter, #2)

By: Alice Henderson

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Wildlife biologist Alex Carter is back, fighting for endangered species in the Canadian Arctic and … read more

Similar categories in Alice Henderson's A Blizzard of Polar Bears (Alex Carter, #2) book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • environment
  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook
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15. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

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16. Just for the Summer

By: Melody Carlson

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle and manages it with aplomb. But the daily… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Celtic Empire (Dirk Pitt, #25) by Clive Cussler

17. Celtic Empire (Dirk Pitt, #25)

By: Clive Cussler

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

NUMA-directeur Dirk Pitt raakt betrokken bij een internationaal mysterie dat alles en iedereen in z… read more

Similar categories in Clive Cussler's Celtic Empire (Dirk Pitt, #25) book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • audiobook
Cover of On Animals by Susan Orlean

18. On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer and the author of the New York Times bestseller Th… read more

Similar categories in Susan Orlean's On Animals book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • nature
  • science
"I know now that even though dogs break your heart, they fill it up, even when they're gone."

-Susan Orlean, On Animals

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19. The Brilliant Abyss

By: Helen Scales

4.04

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A journey into the alien depths of the sea, and into our possible future, from a marine biologist k… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The oceans, it turns out, are full of bone-eating worms"

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"Not so very long ago, the deep was a tremendous void containing myths, legends and endless unknowns."

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"There are no compelling reasons for exploiting the deep, just industry and politics vying to push into that last frontier."

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

"The deep has no stars at night to remind us it is there, and no moon shining down. And yet, this hidden place reaches into our daily lives and makes vital things happen without our knowing. The deep,…"

-Helen Scales, The Brilliant Abyss

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20. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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21. The Method

By: James Patterson

3.50

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Please note: This audio drama is for mature audiences only. It contains strong language, violence, … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's The Method book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • audiobook
Cover of Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures by Nick Pyenson

22. Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

By: Nick Pyenson

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Smithsonian's star paleontologist takes us to the ends of the earth and to the cutting edge of … read more

Similar categories in Nick Pyenson's Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"We, as paleontologists, are used to asking questions without having all the facts."

-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with awe, terror, and affection. We have hunted them for thousands of years a…"

-Nick Pyenson, Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

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23. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. A Ghost of Caribou (Alex Carter #3)

By: Alice Henderson

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Building upon the highly acclaimed debut of Alice Henderson’s  A Solitude of Wolverines  and its fo… read more

Similar categories in Alice Henderson's A Ghost of Caribou (Alex Carter #3) book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • environment
  • animals
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Mina's Matchbox by Yōko Ogawa

25. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

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"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

Cover of The Way Back Home by Courtney Peppernell

26. The Way Back Home

By: Courtney Peppernell

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

When a dark storm settled upon the earth, you lost many things—your hope, your strength, yourself. … read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
"They wonder why we need big parades filled with color and confetti or a month dedicated to asking for recognition and empathy. And to them, I do not respond in anger or affliction, even if sometimes …"

-Courtney Peppernell, The Way Back Home

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27. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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  • adult
  • environment
  • nature
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28. The Loneliest Polar Bear

By: Kale Williams

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the hu… read more

Similar categories in Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear book and Kale Williams's The Loneliest Polar Bear

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of We'll Prescribe You a Cat by Syou Ishida

29. 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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  • adult
  • animals
  • audiobook
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30. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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31. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

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  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

9 best-selling adult books like The Loneliest Polar Bear by Kale Williams

Transform Your Habits

The Dead Don't Dance (Awakening #1)

Charles Martin

4.31

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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

Caitlin Doughty

4.30

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Parade

Rachel Cusk

3.70

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On Animals

Susan Orlean

3.83

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Inward

Yung Pueblo

4.22

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LVOE: Poems, Epigrams & Aphorisms

Atticus Poetry

4.23

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Flower Crowns and Fearsome Things

Amanda Lovelace

3.82

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Unlock Your Storybook Heart (You Are Your Own Fairy Tale, #3)

Amanda Lovelace

3.85

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