8 must-read nonfiction books like Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles (Wild Series) by Lila M. Higgins

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Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles (Wild Series)

By: Lila M. Higgins

4.60

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

“Put on your hiking shoes, pack your binoculars, and rediscover the City of Angels.” — Westways Mag…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles (Wild Series) by Lila M. Higgins , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. The Day the Crayons Quit

By: Oliver Jeffers , Drew Daywalt

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Hardcover

Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all s… read more

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2. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

By: Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

3.00

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

The world's foremost producer of personal development and motivational audio programs gives you the… read more

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3. Charley Harper 123s: Skinny Edition

By: Charley Harper

3.80

Format: None pages, Board Book

A classic 123 counting book featuring the colorful wildlife illustrations of Charley Harper. Young … read more

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4. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian , Tom Griffiths

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday l… read more

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5. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

6. 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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7. The Forest

By: Thomas Ott

3.77

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty-five singular illustrations, without words, of whic… read more

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8. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard

4.22

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"

-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

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9. 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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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science nature
"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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10. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

By: Franny Choi

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds--past, present, an… read more

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"I have last year's ashes in my throat, stories stuffed so full of morals they bleed sugar."

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

"How can I explain the things and things and things I did wrong? I was never any good at telling the difference between what wanted me and what wanted me gone"

-Franny Choi, The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

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11. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

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"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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12. L.A. Weather

By: María Amparo Escandón

3.18

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick FORECAST: Storm clouds are on the horizon … read more

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13. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell

3.68

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

When the technologies we use every day collapse our experiences into 24/7 availability, platforms f… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power by Rachel Rodgers

14. We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power

By: Rachel Rodgers

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Are you ready to fill your life with more peace, power, and joy? We Should All Be Millionaires d… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. Heartsong (Green Creek, #3)

By: T.J. Klune

4.53

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Heartsong is the third book in the Green Creek series, the beloved fantasy romance sensation by New… read more

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"You’re a Bennett."

-T.J. Klune, Heartsong (Green Creek, #3)

"I'm not crying. My eyes are sweating."

-T.J. Klune, Heartsong (Green Creek, #3)

"after the words were out, I felt... lighter."

-T.J. Klune, Heartsong (Green Creek, #3)

"We are literally the gayest pack that has ever existed,"

-T.J. Klune, Heartsong (Green Creek, #3)

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16. Sea Change

By: Gina Chung

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A novel about a woman tossed overboard by heartbreak and loss, who has to find her way back to stab… read more

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17. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

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" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

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18. The Wonders of Nature (DK Children's Anthologies)

By: Ben Hoare

4.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Uncover awe-inspiring stories behind the natural world with this nature book for curious kids aged … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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19. Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles (Wild Series)

By: Lila M. Higgins

4.60

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

“Put on your hiking shoes, pack your binoculars, and rediscover the City of Angels.” — Westways Mag… read more

Similar categories in Lila M. Higgins's Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles (Wild Series) book and Lila M. Higgins's Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles (Wild Series)

  • travel
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • nature
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20. The California Field Atlas

By: Obi Kaufmann

4.48

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

This lavishly illustrated atlas takes readers off the beaten path and outside normal conceptions of… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science nature
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21. The Coasts of California: A California Field Atlas

By: Obi Kaufmann

4.36

Format: 672 pages, Flexibound

A San Francisco Chronicle bestseller! An epic, gloriously illustrated journey up and down Californi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

6 must-read nature books like Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles (Wild Series) by Lila M. Higgins

Transform Your Habits

Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

Suzanne Simard

4.22

Transform Your Habits

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

Ed Yong

4.47

Transform Your Habits

The Wonders of Nature (DK Children's Anthologies)

Ben Hoare

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Wild LA: Explore the Amazing Nature in and Around Los Angeles (Wild Series)

Lila M. Higgins

4.60

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Transform Your Habits

A Beetle Is Shy

Sylvia Long , Dianna Hutts Aston

3.14

Transform Your Habits

The Story of Ferdinand

Robert Lawson , Munro Leaf

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Sarah, Plain and Tall (Sarah, Plain and Tall, #1)

Patricia MacLachlan

3.83

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Winter Story (Brambly Hedge, #4)

Jill Barklem

4.46

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