6 Best nonfiction books like The Secret Life of the Forest by Richard M. Ketchum

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The Secret Life of the Forest

By: Richard M. Ketchum

3.84

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

In any given year, millions of people visit one or more of the 154 national forests in the United S…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Secret Life of the Forest by Richard M. Ketchum , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Shadow of Ashland (Ashland #1)

By: Terence M. Green

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

In the depths of the Great Depression, Jack Radey left his home in Toronto to seek a better life in… read more

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2. Silence: The Power of Quiet in a World Full of Noise

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

3.16

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The Zen master and one of the world's most beloved teachers returns with a concise, practical guide… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy, #1)

By: N.K. Jemisin

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circum… read more

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4. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

5. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

By: Douglas Adams

3.00

Format: 9 pages,

At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five novels from Douglas Adams's Hitchhik… read more

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6. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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7. 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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  • nature
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8. The Book of Form and Emptiness

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.03

Format: 548 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more

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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"

-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness

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9. Termination Shock

By: Neal Stephenson

3.83

Format: 708 pages, Hardcover

A visionary technothriller about climate change. Neal Stephenson's sweeping, prescient new nove… read more

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  • environment
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10. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

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  • environment
"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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11. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.10

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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12. The Colourful Cases of Sherlock Holmes: Volume 1

By: Roger Riccard

4.35

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Roger Riccard, one of the most respected Sherlock Holmes authors, following his highly acclaimed si… read more

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13. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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14. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

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15. Homestead

By: Melinda Moustakis

3.53

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Anchorage, 1956. When Marie and Lawrence first lock eyes at the Moose Lodge, they are immediately d… read more

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  • nature
Cover of SHERLOCK HOLMES Shadows of the East End, Book One: Blessington Street (The Watson Chronicles) by Christopher D. Abbott

16. SHERLOCK HOLMES Shadows of the East End, Book One: Blessington Street (The Watson Chronicles)

By: Christopher D. Abbott

4.45

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Following on the heels of the Amazon Bestseller Four Calling Birds comes a new Sherlock Holmes tril… read more

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17. SHERLOCK HOLMES The Lone Rider (The Watson Chronicles)

By: Christopher D. Abbott

4.31

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson arrive in New York, a week before their invitation to watch … read more

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18. SHERLOCK HOLMES The Haunted Mansion (The Watson Chronicles)

By: Christopher D. Abbott

4.16

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

When several strange incidents occur in India that appear to be related the niece of Colonel James … read more

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19. SHERLOCK HOLMES Cases By Candlelight (Vol. 3) (The Watson Chronicles)

By: Christopher D. Abbott

4.58

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Cases by Candlelight Vol 3, of The Watson Chronicles.Christopher D. Abbott, Keith R.A. DeCandido, M… read more

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20. The Secret Life of the Forest

By: Richard M. Ketchum

3.84

Format: 141 pages, Kindle Edition

In any given year, millions of people visit one or more of the 154 national forests in the United S… read more

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  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

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Neal Stephenson

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3.88

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Elizabeth Kolbert

4.10

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4.18

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