5 must-read animals books like Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species by Michael Fogden

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Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species

By: Michael Fogden

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight de…

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1. 1776

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"

-David McCullough, 1776

"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."

-David McCullough, 1776

"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."

-David McCullough, 1776

"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"

-David McCullough, 1776

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2. The Wind in the Willows

By: Kenneth Grahame , Gillian Avery

4.02

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more

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  • animals
"...Absorbed in the new scents, the sounds, and the sunlight..."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"There’s nothing––absolutely nothing––half so much worth doing as messing about in boats."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."

-Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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3. The Three Musketeers

By: Alexandre Dumas , Richard Pevear , John Lee

4.09

Format: 625 pages, Paperback

First published in 1844, The Three Musketeers is the most famous of Alexandre Dumas' historical nov… read more

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"All for one and one for all."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

-Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

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4. 1916: A Novel of the Irish Rebellion

By: Morgan Llywelyn

3.69

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Ned Halloran has lost both his parents--and almost his own life--to the sinking of the Titanic . De… read more

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5. The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

By: Tim Flannery , Peter Wohlleben , Jane Billinghurst , Suzanne Simard

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods and forests and explains… read more

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  • nature
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
"A tree’s most important means of staying connected to other trees is a “wood wide web"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"Trees could solve the problems if people trying to improve things would only allow them to takeover"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

"So many questions remain unanswered. Perhaps we are poorer for having lost a possible explanation or richer for having gained a mystery. But aren't both possibilities equally intriguing?"

-Tim Flannery, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

6. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things

By: Paula Byrne

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed literary biographer Paula Byrne takes a highly original approach in this landmark biograp… read more

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7. The Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

3.90

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

'There is no harm in a man's cub.' Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Ju… read more

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  • animals
"Mark my trail..."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Each dog barks in its own yard."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"Go, and peace go with thee. Only, another time do not meddle with my game."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

"It is better to lie quiet in the mud than to be disturbed on good bedding."

-Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

8. Another Country

By: James Baldwin

4.08

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more

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9. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

By: Jules Verne , Anthony Bonner

3.89

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

When an unidentified “monster” threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronna… read more

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"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not"

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"Steam seems to have killed all gratitude in the hearts of sailors."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."

-Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)

10. Bambi

By: Felix Salten , Barbara Cooney

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The Prince of the Forest Bambi's life in the woods begins happily. There are forest animals to play… read more

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11. Out of Africa

By: Isak Dinesen , Karen Blixen

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Out of Africais Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand… read more

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12. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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13. Perestroika in Paris

By: Jane Smiley

3.99

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last… read more

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  • animals
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14. The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

By: Rick Bragg

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
"Does he bite?"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"Goodnight, buddy,"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"I am beginning to think that the word “no,"

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

"But I don't think any dog knows home better than one thrown anway once already."

-Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

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15. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

By: Mitch Albom

4.37

Format: 489 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Albom creates a magical world through his love of music in this remarkable new novel about th… read more

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"Man suffers for his art."

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"some things you endure for a reason"

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"What you’re thinking about can be what you become."

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"Public taste is as fickle as a child’s attention span"

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

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16. Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species

By: Michael Fogden

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hummingbirds have always held popular appeal, with their visual brilliance, extraordinary flight de… read more

Similar categories in Michael Fogden's Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species book and Michael Fogden's Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species

  • biology
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • birds
  • nature

5 Top nonfiction books like Hummingbirds: A Life-size Guide to Every Species by Michael Fogden

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4.09

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4.07

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4.10

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4.45

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Virginia Woolf , Daniel Defoe , Gerald McCann

3.68

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4.02

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Howard Pyle

4.07

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3.85

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