16 Best nonfiction books like The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes by Robin Lee Carlson

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The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes

By: Robin Lee Carlson

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When the nature reserve at Cold Canyon went up in flames—a casualty of California’s raging fire sea…

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1. In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)

By: Tamora Pierce

4.24

Format: 264 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Disguised as a boy, Alanna of Trebond becomes a squire, to none other than the prince of the realm.… read more

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"Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane."

-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)

"The thief's fingers touched her chin gently, making her look up."

-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)

"Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?"

-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)

"Men died as she watched, and they didn't care about what they had fought for."

-Tamora Pierce, In the Hand of the Goddess (Song of the Lioness, #2)

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2. Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)

By: Tamora Pierce

4.27

Format: 274 pages, Mass Market Paperback

From now on I'm Alan of Trebond, the younger twin. I'll be a knight. And so young Alanna of Treb… read more

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"I believe in deeds, not words."

-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)

"I--buy, and I sell." "You're a thief."

-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)

"We're men, and men aren't born to stand alone."

-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)

"She was to behave. No pranks was to be a watchword."

-Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)

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3. Owls and Other Fantasies: Poems and Essays

By: Mary Oliver

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Within these pages Mary Oliver collects twenty-six of her poems about the birds that have been such… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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4. The Goblin Emperor

By: Katherine Addison

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more

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5. The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By: Sy Montgomery

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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6. Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life: The Plants and Places That Inspired the Classic Children's Tales

By: Marta McDowell

3.75

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

"An enchanting and original account of Beatrix Potter's life and her love of plants and gardening."… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature

7. Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)

By: Octavia E. Butler

4.02

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

This Nebula Award-winning sequel to Parable of the Sower continues the story of Lauren Olamina in s… read more

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8. True Nature

By: Barbara Bash

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea , writer-illustrator Barbara Bash bri… read more

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9. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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10. 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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11. The Electric State

By: Simon Stålenhag

4.43

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

In 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA. The ruins o… read more

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"To, čo robíme, nie je civilizované, viem to. Ale viem i to, že aj tebe sa to muselo prihodiť - presne ako ja si sa zobudil a zrazu si si uvedomil niečo nezvratné: nežijeme už v civilizovaných časoch."

-Simon Stålenhag, The Electric State

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12. The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative

By: Florence Williams

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

An intrepid investigation into nature’s restorative benefits by a prize-winning author. For cent… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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13. The Grief of Stones (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #2)

By: Katherine Addison

4.32

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

In The Grief of Stones, Katherine Addison returns to the world of The Goblin Emperor with a direct … read more

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14. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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15. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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16. 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
"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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17. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

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"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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18. Marilla of Green Gables

By: Sarah McCoy

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A bold, heartfelt tale of life at Green Gables . . . before Anne: A marvelously entertaining and mo… read more

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"Keep yourself open to unexpected blessings, dear."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"There was power in knowledge. Like the gears of a steam engine, the more active knowledge was, the more force it produced."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Human hearts are full of strife. It's a fallen world, my dears. We can only do our best to establish safe havens where we can."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

"Just take a deep breath and go on in there with your head held high. Look for good things and good things [are] what you'll find..."

-Sarah McCoy, Marilla of Green Gables

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19. The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

By: Katherine Addison

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

Katherine Addison returns to the glittering world she created for her beloved novel, 'The Goblin Em… read more

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"I’ll have to tell my mother that being gaudy has its uses"

-Katherine Addison, The Witness for the Dead (The Cemeteries of Amalo, #1)

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20. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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21. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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22. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

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23. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

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  • nonfiction
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24. The Organic Artist: Make Your Own Paint, Paper, Pigments and Prints from Nature

By: Nick Neddo

4.28

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

It's time to go back to basics! If you're interested in art, but find that it's becoming an increas… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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25. The Curse of Pietro Houdini

By: Derek B. Miller

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving Wor… read more

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"Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life."

-Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini

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26. Love & Saffron

By: Kim Fay

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The #1 Indie Next Pick, in the vein of the classic 84, Charing Cross Road and Meet Me at the Museum… read more

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"The less we cement ourselves to our certainties, the fuller our lives can be."

-Kim Fay, Love & Saffron

"When a new experience comes into my life, it doesn't feel real anymore until I've shared it with you."

-Kim Fay, Love & Saffron

"Those were painful times, but that particular longing was only one small part of the much bigger life I have shared with Francis."

-Kim Fay, Love & Saffron

"Dazzling jacaranda petals covered the sidewalk like a carpet of amethyst velvet. It always amazes me how the trees sit so quietly, unnoticed all spring, until one day it feels as if every single one …"

-Kim Fay, Love & Saffron

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27. The Art of Living: Reflections on Mindfulness and the Overexamined Life

By: Grant Snider

4.08

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

In The Art of Living , beloved cartoonist Grant Snider—author of The Shape of Ideas and I Will Judg… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Secrets of a Devon Wood: My Nature Journal

By: Jo Brown

4.68

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Artist and illustrator Jo Brown started keeping her nature diary in a bid to document the small won… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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29. The Green Sketching Handbook: Relax, Unwind and Reconnect with Nature

By: Ali Foxon

4.39

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

'A warm and inspiring invitation to put down our phones, pick up a pencil and start really looking … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Colors of the West: An Artist's Guide to Nature's Palette by Molly Hashimoto

30. Colors of the West: An Artist's Guide to Nature's Palette

By: Molly Hashimoto

4.31

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

"Putting a brush in the hands of new artists, young and old, heightens their awareness of the power… read more

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  • nonfiction
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31. The Cold Canyon Fire Journals: Green Shoots and Silver Linings in the Ashes

By: Robin Lee Carlson

4.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When the nature reserve at Cold Canyon went up in flames—a casualty of California’s raging fire sea… read more

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4.33

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3.75

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