27 must-read nonfiction books like Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species by Scott Solomon

Cover of Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species by Scott Solomon

Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

By: Scott Solomon

4.20

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In many ways, insects are just like us. Elaborate mating rituals, a variety of parenting styles, an…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species by Scott Solomon , here is a list of 27 books like this:

Cover of The Vikings by Kenneth W. Harl

1. The Vikings

By: Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

Format: None pages, Audio Cassette

Parts one,two, and three. Each part contains six audio cassettes and course guidebook in a clamshel… read more

Similar categories in Kenneth W. Harl's The Vikings book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals by Merlin Tuttle

2. The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals

By: Merlin Tuttle

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A lifetime of adventures with bats around the world reveals why these special and imperiled creatur… read more

Similar categories in Merlin Tuttle's The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World's Most Misunderstood Mammals book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained by Michael E. Wysession

3. The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained

By: Michael E. Wysession

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Audible Audio

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science by J. Kenji López-Alt

4. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science

By: J. Kenji López-Alt

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Ever wondered how to pan-fry a steak with a charred crust and an interior that's perfectly medium-r… read more

Similar categories in J. Kenji López-Alt's The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story by Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse

5. The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story

By: Dimitra Papagianni , Michael A. Morse

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthals has been transformed, thanks to new disc… read more

Similar categories in Dimitra Papagianni's The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (Great Courses, #820) by Thomas Childers

6. Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (Great Courses, #820)

By: Thomas Childers

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Audio Cassette

Course Lecture Titles 1. IntroductionEurope in the "Modern Age" 2. Social and Political Life Under … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Childers's Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (Great Courses, #820) book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

By: Andrea Wulf

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of Founding Gardeners reveals the forgotten life of Alexander von Humboldt, th… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Wulf's The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

8. A Small Place

By: Jamaica Kincaid

4.02

Format: None pages,

Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more

Similar categories in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction

9. The History of Ancient Egypt (The Great Courses #350)

By: Bob Brier

0.00

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

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10. Life on Earth

By: David Attenborough

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from … read more

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11. Nutrition Made Clear (Great Courses, #1950)

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Making smart eating choices is essential to living a healthy, happy, and successful life. Yet all t… read more

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12. Biological Anthropology: An Evolutionary Perspective

By: Barbara J. King

1.33

Format: 397 pages, Audio Cassette

In this course, award-winning teacher and scholar, Barbara J. King (William and Mary University) de… read more

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13. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Cover of The Life and Works of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser

14. The Life and Works of Jane Austen

By: Devoney Looser

4.36

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Born to the ranks of the lower English gentry in 1775, Jane Austen led what some have mistakenly de… read more

Similar categories in Devoney Looser's The Life and Works of Jane Austen book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest by Jennifer Paxton

15. England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest

By: Jennifer Paxton

4.28

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Great Courses Plus Dr. Jennifer Paxton is Assistant Director of the University Honors Program and … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Paxton's England: From the Fall of Rome to the Norman Conquest book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research by Dorsey Armstrong

16. The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.08

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

2 hours and 43 minutes The world has been fundamentally changed by the shock and devastation of … read more

Similar categories in Dorsey Armstrong's The Black Death: New Lessons from Recent Research book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses) by Dorsey Armstrong

17. Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses)

By: Dorsey Armstrong

4.14

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 5 hours and 6 minutes Was King Arthur a real person? What about Robin Hood? Is… read more

Similar categories in Dorsey Armstrong's Medieval Myths & Mysteries (The Great Courses) book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries by Neil deGrasse Tyson

18. The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries

By: Neil deGrasse Tyson

4.16

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Everything we now know about the universe-from the behavior of quarks to the birth of entire galaxi… read more

Similar categories in Neil deGrasse Tyson's The Inexplicable Universe: Unsolved Mysteries book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet by John McWhorter

19. Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet

By: John McWhorter

3.99

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

The ubiquity of the written word in our everyday lives can make it easy to forget how recent the de… read more

Similar categories in John McWhorter's Ancient Writing and the History of the Alphabet book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mongol Empire by Craig G. Benjamin

20. The Mongol Empire

By: Craig G. Benjamin

3.89

Format: 345 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length 11 hours and 34 minutes The Mongol Empire was the largest empire the world has… read more

Similar categories in Craig G. Benjamin's The Mongol Empire book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Charlemagne Father of Europe by Philip Daileader

21. Charlemagne Father of Europe

By: Philip Daileader

3.76

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In Charlemagne: Father of Europe, you will look back on Charlemagne’s rule and the way his dynasty … read more

Similar categories in Philip Daileader's Charlemagne Father of Europe book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Norse Mythology by Jackson  Crawford

22. Norse Mythology

By: Jackson Crawford

3.89

Format: 342 pages, Audible Audio

Thor, Odin, Loki, Freyja, the Valkyries, Valhalla, Ragnarok — many of the places we encounter these… read more

Similar categories in Jackson Crawford's Norse Mythology book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Native Peoples of North America by Daniel M. Cobb

23. Native Peoples of North America

By: Daniel M. Cobb

3.78

Format: 13 pages, Audible Audio

History, for all its facts and figures, names and dates, is ultimately subjective. You learn the po… read more

Similar categories in Daniel M. Cobb's Native Peoples of North America book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy by Tara Susman-Peña

24. Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy

By: Tara Susman-Peña

3.65

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 3hours and 34 seconds Americans spend hundreds, even thousands, of hours a week … read more

Similar categories in Tara Susman-Peña's Fighting Misinformation: Digital Media Literacy book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of America’s Musical Heritage by Anthony Seeger

25. America’s Musical Heritage

By: Anthony Seeger

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Listening Length: 5 hours and 56 minutes America is an undeniably musical nation. From vaudevill… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Seeger's America’s Musical Heritage book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rise of Modern Japan by Mark J. Ravina

26. The Rise of Modern Japan

By: Mark J. Ravina

4.05

Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio

Devastated by war, Japan in 1945 faced ruin as a major power. Yet within a quarter century it bounc… read more

Similar categories in Mark J. Ravina's The Rise of Modern Japan book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Secret World of Espionage by The Great Courses

27. The Secret World of Espionage

By: The Great Courses

3.51

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

The world of espionage is shrouded in mystery—even to those in it—but so much of what we think we k… read more

Similar categories in The Great Courses's The Secret World of Espionage book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome by Gregory S. Aldrete

28. A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome

By: Gregory S. Aldrete

3.78

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

How have films like Ben-Hur, Spartacus, Gladiator, or even a satire like Monty Python's Life of Bri… read more

Similar categories in Gregory S. Aldrete's A Historian Goes to the Movies: Ancient Rome book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (The Great Courses) by Emily Zarka

29. Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (The Great Courses)

By: Emily Zarka

3.41

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Monster stories aren’t just meant to entertain. They’re meant to inform, even educate. Above all, t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Zarka's Serial Killers: Real and Imagined (The Great Courses) book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum

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.

Cover of Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species by Scott Solomon

31. Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

By: Scott Solomon

4.20

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

In many ways, insects are just like us. Elaborate mating rituals, a variety of parenting styles, an… read more

Similar categories in Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species book and Scott Solomon's Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science

22 Best audiobook books like Why Insects Matter: Earth’s Most Essential Species by Scott Solomon

Transform Your Habits

The Vikings

Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Science of Energy: Resources and Power Explained

Michael E. Wysession

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age (Great Courses, #820)

Thomas Childers

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

Dan Flores

3.98

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22 Best audiobook books like Charlemagne Father of Europe by Philip Daileader

Transform Your Habits

The Vikings

Kenneth W. Harl

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Machiavelli in Context (The Great Courses #4311)

William R. Cook

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Francis of Assisi (Great Courses, #615)

William R. Cook , Ronald B. Herzman

3.50

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After The Plague

Simon Doubleday

3.46

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