12 must-read nonfiction books like Lizards of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Mark O'Shea

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Lizards of the World: A Guide to Every Family

By: Mark O'Shea

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A lavishly illustrated overview of the world's lizards Lizards are one of nature's great success…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Lizards of the World: A Guide to Every Family by Mark O'Shea , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. Dinosaur Art: The World's Greatest Paleoart

By: Steve White , Scott D. Sampson , None

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A paleoartist is an illustrator who specialises in the science and art of reconstructing ancient an… read more

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2. A Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians

By: Roger Tory Peterson , None

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

This guide covers all the species of reptiles and amphibians found in western North America. More t… read more

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3. Fangs

By: Sarah Andersen

4.24

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

A love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarah's Scri… read more

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"– In all my years, I really haven't slept with many people. I kinda have trust issues. – Why's that? – My „first"

-Sarah Andersen, Fangs

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4. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

By: Randall Munroe

4.37

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
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6. 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
  • animals
  • 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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7. The Only Purple House in Town (Fix-It Witches, #4)

By: Ann Aguirre

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Iris Collins is the messy one in her family. The "chaos bunny." Her sisters are all wildly successf… read more

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8. Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

By: Katherine May

3.62

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering, an invitation to rediscover the feelings o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"Sometimes we are visited by destruction. Other times, it seems, the world flexes its claws and lets us feel its hot breath, just to remind us how small we are, how helpless."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"I have started to look up the meaning of place names recently. It is perhaps an interest that awakens in you ass you age, this enthusiasm for peering back through time to find lost meaning."

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"Sacred places are no longer given to us, and they are rarely shared between whole communities. They are now containers for our own knowing, our own meanings. They don't translate across minds. It fal…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

"You do not need to walk in the wilderness to make contact with the wild. If you know your stories--if you understand the mythologies of your land--then you can leap from a sunlit stroll with your dog…"

-Katherine May, Enchantment: Awakening Wonder in an Anxious Age

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9. The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

By: Katie Mack

4.26

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most dynamic rising stars in astrophysics, an accessible and eye-opening look—in th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"It also means that cosmology doesn’t really have a well-defined concept of “now."

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"We are a species poised between an awareness of our ultimate insignificance and an ability to reach far beyond our mundane lives, into the void, to solve the most fundamental mysteries of the cosmos."

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"In the meantime, we'll continue on, making new pathc through the woods to see what we might find hiding there. Someday, deep in the unknown wilderness of the distant future, the Sun will expand, the …"

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

"You may have heard that "we are made of stardust" (or "star stuff" if you're Sagan), and this is absolutely true if we measure by mass. All the heavier elements in your body—oxygen, carbon, nitrogen,…"

-Katie Mack, The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

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10. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

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11. Goblin Mode: How to Get Cozy, Embrace Imperfection, and Thrive in the Muck

By: McKayla Coyle

3.45

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Embrace your inner goblin! Learn to decorate, dress, craft, forage, and live according to the gobli… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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12. Welcome to the Grief Club: Because You Don't Have to Go Through It Alone

By: Janine Kwoh

4.56

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the club that no one ever wants to join but so many of us end up needing. We’re so sorry… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Paleontology: An Illustrated History

By: David Bainbridge

4.27

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to today Humans have b… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Peut-être y a-t-il dans l'étude du vieux et des morts quelque chose qui maintient jeune et vivant."

-David Bainbridge, Paleontology: An Illustrated History

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14. Crocodiles of the World

By: Colin Stevenson

4.40

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

What animal has the most powerful bite of any living creature? What animal has compounds within its… read more

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15. Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art

By: Steve White

4.68

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Showcases the work of twenty leading paleoartists who expertly bring these extinct animals to life … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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16. How Zoologists Organize Things: The Art of Classification

By: David Bainbridge

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
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17. Nightmare in Savannah

By: Lela Gwenn

2.95

Format: 177 pages, Paperback

Alexa moves to Savannah to get away from her past. Too bad her past is a Google search away and her… read more

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18. Lizards of the World: A Guide to Every Family

By: Mark O'Shea

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A lavishly illustrated overview of the world's lizards Lizards are one of nature's great success… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
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Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

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Ed Yong

4.47

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Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Gloria Dickie

4.25

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David Bainbridge

4.03

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Martha Wells

4.22

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John Scalzi

3.99

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John Scalzi

4.16

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How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

Cody Cassidy

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