9 must-read nature books like More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring Nature and Loss on the Coast of Maine by Margie Patlak

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More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring Nature and Loss on the Coast of Maine

By: Margie Patlak

4.24

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For award-winning science writer Margie Patlak, exploring the unique nature of the Maine coast open…

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1. Flight Behavior

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.81

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a d… read more

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"She would die of him or be cured."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"For scientists, reality is not optional."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"I never learn anything from listening to myself."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

"Be sweet and carry a sharp knife, was her motto."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior

2. Angle of Repose

By: Wallace Stegner

3.56

Format: None pages,

Wallace Stegner's Pultizer Prize-winning novel is a story of discovery--personal, historical, and g… read more

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3. Erasure

By: Percival Everett

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more

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4. The Secret Hours

By: Mick Herron

4.29

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Two years ago, a hostile Prime Minister launched the Monochrome inquiry, investigating "historical … read more

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"We’re the Secret Service. We’re not here to be liked."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"And you can shut your damn mouth too." "Now now. Casual profanity’s the sign of a small fucking mind."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"Come on. You can buy me breakfast." "I've already had breakfast." "So have I. What's that got to do with it?"

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

"First Desk enjoyed coincidences the way she liked happy endings: outside of fiction, they were as trustworthy as a Tinder Profile."

-Mick Herron, The Secret Hours

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5. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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6. Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch, #13)

By: Paul Doiron

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappe… read more

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7. Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By: Susan Cain

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bitte… read more

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"Everything that you love, you will eventually lose. But in the end, love will return in a different form."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The place you suffer is the place you care. You hurt because you care. Therefore, the best response to pain is to dive deeper into your caring."

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

"The third answer is the most difficult one to grasp, but it's also the one that can save you. The love you lost, or the love you wished for and never had: That love exists eternally. It shifts its sh…"

-Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

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8. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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9. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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10. Ferris

By: Kate DiCamillo

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The beloved author of Because of Winn-Dixie has outdone herself with a hilarious and achingly real … read more

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11. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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12. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

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"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

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13. These Precious Days: Essays

By: Ann Patchett

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The beloved New York Times bestselling author reflects on home, family, friendships and writing in … read more

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"It is possible to love someone with all your heart and still know your union would never have survived having children together."

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"The future is not one thing. So many possibilities can arise as a result of intelligence, education, curiosity, and hard work. No one ever told me that, and I'm sorry it took this long for me to figu…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"People want you to want what they want. If you want the same things they want, then their want is validated. If you don’t want the same things, your lack of wanting can, to certain people, come acros…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

"Without ever meaning to, my father taught me at a very early age to give up on the idea of approval. I wish I could bottle that freedom now and give it to every young writer I meet, with an extra bot…"

-Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

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14. 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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"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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15. The Invisible Hour

By: Alice Hoffman

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magi… read more

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"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

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16. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

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"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

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17. The Midcoast

By: Adam White

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more

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18. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

By: Emily Nagoski

3.95

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a … read more

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"No one is “complete"

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"So how much rest is “adequate"

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"Dread is anxiety on steroids."

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"Not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering."

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

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19. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

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20. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

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"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

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21. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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22. Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

By: Devon Price

4.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving in… read more

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"Therapy that is focused on battling “irrational beliefs,"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Refusing to perform neurotypicality is a revolutionary act of disability justice. It's also a radical act of self-love."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"Much of what we call maturity is a silly pantomime of independence and unfeeling, not a real quality of unbreakable strength."

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

"We have to keep other people at arm's length, because letting them see our hyperfixations, meltdowns, obsessions, and outbursts could mean losing their respect. But locking ourselves away means we ca…"

-Devon Price, Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

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23. Band of Sisters

By: Lauren Willig

4.07

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I i… read more

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24. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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25. Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

By: Yung Pueblo

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An empathetic and wise book that will guide you on a journey toward… read more

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"The end of a relationship is the end of a home."

-Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future

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26. The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

By: Sy Montgomery

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the ha… read more

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"Hawks do not play by our rules. You can never assume that a hawk, even one you raised from a chick, will forgive your mistakes—sometimes a single error ruptures the relationship forever. A hawk will …"

-Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

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27. Unlikely Animals

By: Annie Hartnett

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this… read more

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"You're not too messed up at all, you're just as messed up as you should be."

-Annie Hartnett, Unlikely Animals

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28. Acts of Violet

By: Margarita Montimore

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From Margarita Montimore, the author of GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller Oona Out of Orde… read more

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"Dream bigger, aspire harder, pursue the impossible, and find that f***ing magic."

-Margarita Montimore, Acts of Violet

"It doesn't only take guts to do the brave thing. It also takes guts to try to do the brave thing."

-Margarita Montimore, Acts of Violet

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29. The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened

By: Bill McKibben

4.19

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

One of the New Yorker 's Best Books of 2022 Bill McKibben―award-winning author, activist, educat… read more

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30. 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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31. More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring Nature and Loss on the Coast of Maine

By: Margie Patlak

4.24

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For award-winning science writer Margie Patlak, exploring the unique nature of the Maine coast open… read more

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