8 best-selling nature books like The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them by Alison Benjamin

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The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them

By: Alison Benjamin

4.19

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Bees are our most loyal ally. These fascinating, enigmatic creatures are a key lynchpin in the work…

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1. The Humans

By: Matt Haig

4.08

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are l… read more

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"As civilisation advances, so does indifference."

-Matt Haig, The Humans

"So love is about finding the right person to hurt you?"

-Matt Haig, The Humans

"Because the possibility of pain is where love stems from."

-Matt Haig, The Humans

"And yet, when everything is alien the alien becomes familiar."

-Matt Haig, The Humans

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2. A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

By: Aldo Leopold

4.30

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949, A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Tho… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"That the situation is hopeless should not prevent us from doing our best."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

"The evolution of a land ethic is an intellectual as well as emotional process."

-Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

3. Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

By: Atul Gawande

4.00

Format: 96 pages,

The struggle to perform well is universal: each one of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imp… read more

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4. The Bees

By: Laline Paull

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

The Handmaid's Talemeets The Hunger Gamesin this brilliantly imagined debut. Born into the lowest c… read more

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5. The Nine Tailors (Lord Peter Wimsey, #11)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.94

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

When a disfigured corpse is discovered in a country parish, the local rector pleads with Lord Peter… read more

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6. Honeybee Democracy

By: Thomas D. Seeley

3.14

Format: 54 pages, Hardcover

Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death… read more

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7. Queen Song (Red Queen, #0.1)

By: Victoria Aveyard

3.92

Format: 381 pages, ebook

Queen Coriane, first wife of King Tiberias, keeps a secret diary--how else can she ensure that no o… read more

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8. The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

By: Ian Mortimer

4.01

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Imagine you could get into a time machine and travel back to the 14th century. This text sets out t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Justice is a relative concept in all ages. The fourteenth century is no exception."

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"You might find it alarming to think that your doctor will not actually need to see you in person but might make a diagnosis based on the position of the stars, the colour and smell of your urine, and…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"So, as long as you can get enough to eat, and can avoid all the various lethal infections, the dangers of childbirth, lead poisoning, and the extreme violence, you should live a long time. All you ha…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

"Collectively they remind us that history is much more than an education process. Understanding the past is a matter of experience as well as knowledge, a striving to make spiritual, emotional, poetic…"

-Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

9. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

By: Alan Downs

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more

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10. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"

-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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11. The Dance Tree

By: Kiran Millwood Hargrave

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping historical novel, the internationally bestselling author of The Mercies weaves a s… read more

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12. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

By: Adam Nicolson

3.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more

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  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."

-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

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13. The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

By: Michael Pollan

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee coll… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Memory is the enemy of wonder"

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"For great many species today, “fitness"

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory."

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

"It has become much harder, in the past century, to tell where the garden leaves off and pure nature begins."

-Michael Pollan, The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

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14. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

By: F.C. Yee

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Avatar, the Last Airbender: The Rise of Kyoshi and Av… read more

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"Human desires were responsible for the situation they were in."

-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

"Better to parry the sword than heal the wound it made in the flesh."

-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

"Let a problem least for too long and people begin to believe it's not a problem."

-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

"Ah, the faint grain of sand, the merciless hound at our heels, the spoke of the season's wheel"

-F.C. Yee, The Dawn of Yangchen (The Yangchen Novels, #1)

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16. Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

By: Alba Donati

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Under the Tuscan Sun meets Diary of a Bookseller in this charming memoir by an Italian poet recount… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A Lucignana non abbiamo regine ma fate si, molte."

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

"How did I get the idea? Ideas don't just spring out of nothing - they smoulder, ferment, crowd our mind while we sleep. Ideas walk on their own two legs, follow their own parallel path in part of us …"

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

"Cit. p.81 "I fiori come noi pensano, intuiscono la via più semplice, evitano percorsi difficili. e lottano, hanno spiriti rivoluzionari. ... Penso alla povera erba medica che ripone dentro leggere sp…"

-Alba Donati, Diary of a Tuscan Bookshop: A Memoir

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17. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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19. The Square of Sevens

By: Laura Shepherd-Robinson

4.14

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

An orphaned fortune teller in 18th-century England searches for answers about her long-dead mother … read more

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"If time with those we love is measured by the hourglass, then God’s greatest cruelty is not to let us see the size of that vessel."

-Laura Shepherd-Robinson, The Square of Sevens

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20. Level Up: How to Get Focused, Stop Procrastinating, and Upgrade Your Life

By: Rob Dial

4.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Packed with valuable insights, unique lessons, and practical steps, this book will help you break … read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. Intervals

By: Marianne Brooker

4.38

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

What makes a good death? A good daughter? In 2009, with her forties and a harsh wave of austerity o… read more

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  • nonfiction
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22. Brouhaha

By: Ardal O'Hanlon

3.44

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dove Connolly is dead. That’s not good for anyone in Tullyanna, never mind Dove. Now his best frien… read more

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23. Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

By: Venki Ramakrishnan

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Everyone has heard of DNA. But by itself, DNA is just an inert blueprint for life. It is the riboso… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
"When we have a clear goal in mind, we think we are struggling to reach a summit. But there is no summit. When we get there, we realize we have just climbed a foothill, and there is an endless series …"

-Venki Ramakrishnan, Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome

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24. Hungry

By: Grace Dent

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From an early age, Grace Dent was hungry. As a little girl growing up in Currock, Carlisle, she yea… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Are you hungry?' I say, slightly mischievously. 'Very, he says, unfurling his napkin. This is a shame, because we're sitting down for a tasting menu that will not be a meal, but more a random collect…"

-Grace Dent, Hungry

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25. Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures

By: Michael Blencowe

4.43

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories … read more

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  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why by Matt Kracht

26. OMFG, BEES!: Bees Are So Amazing and You're About to Find Out Why

By: Matt Kracht

4.36

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Are you ready for the ultimate bee book? With lighthearted watercolor and ink drawings, humorous qu… read more

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  • nature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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27. The Tasting Menu: A Short Story

By: Stuart MacBride

3.58

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short tale from Stuart MacBride, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Dead of Winter and … read more

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28. The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them

By: Alison Benjamin

4.19

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

Bees are our most loyal ally. These fascinating, enigmatic creatures are a key lynchpin in the work… read more

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  • history
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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29. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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30. The Houseplant

By: Jeremy Ray

4.55

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

George, a fern, doesn’t appreciate being bought by Brenda at Garden Palace. And he certainly doe… read more

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31. Pocket Nature Series: Cloud Spotting: Observe the Clouds to Quiet Your Mind

By: Casey Schreiner

4.10

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

A take-anywhere guide to the mindful practice of cloud watching. Press pause, step outside, and lo… read more

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  • nonfiction

9 Best history books like The Good Bee: A Celebration of Bees – And How to Save Them by Alison Benjamin

Transform Your Habits

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Ian Mortimer

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

Adam Nicolson

3.51

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9 Best nonfiction books like Intervals by Marianne Brooker

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

Lucy Jones

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

4.18

Transform Your Habits

A Flat Place: Moving Through Empty Landscapes, Naming Complex Trauma

Noreen Masud

4.20

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