This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World
By: Eduardo Navarro
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just…
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1. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
By: Joe Simpson
4.23
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
Touching the Void is the heart-stopping account of Joe Simpson's terrifying adventure in the Peruvi… read more
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- nonfiction
"Life can deal you an amazing hand. Do you play it steady, bluff like crazy or go all in?"-Joe Simpson, Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
2. The Iron Wolf and Other Stories
By: Richard Adams , None , Jennifer Campbell
3.62
Format: 141 pages, Hardcover
In this volume, Richard Adams has collected together nineteen enchanting folk-tales from almost as … read more
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- nature
3. The Elementary Particles
By: Michel Houellebecq , Frank Wynne
3.80
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel–pa… read more
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"He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"The world outside had its own rules, and those rules were not human."-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
"J'aurais pu adhérer au Front National, mais à quoi bon manger de la choucroute avec des cons?"-Michel Houellebecq, The Elementary Particles
4. Grief is the Thing with Feathers
By: Max Porter
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their … read more
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5. Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By: William Blake
4.09
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an collection of poems by William Blake. Note: For a com… read more
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"Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face;"-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds, And binding with briars, my joys & desires."-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
"Can I see anothers woe, And not be in sorrow too. Can I see anothers grief, And not seek for kind relief. - On Anothers Sorrow "-William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
6. 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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7. Gravity's Rainbow
By: Thomas Pynchon , Andrés Ibáñez , None
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 1973 National Book Award, Gravity's Rainbow is a postmodern epic, a work as exhaustiv… read more
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8. 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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9. 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
- 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
10. The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
By: Maja Lunde
3.81
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut fol… read more
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- nature
"We are nothing without passion."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"You do know he loves to write. He always has."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"Without knowledge we are nothing.without knowledge we are animals."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
"لم تستطع أن تبقي أصابعها بعيدة عنه؛ بعد أن تراكمت أشهرٌ من الحنين -إليه- في يديها."-Maja Lunde, The History of Bees (Klimakvartetten, #1)
11. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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- nature
- nonfiction
- environment
- science
"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
12. Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
By: Donna Leon
4.09
Format: 295 pages, Hardcover
Brunetti is forced to confront the price of loyalty, to his past and in his work, as a seemingly in… read more
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"He slowed his pace to hers, and they walked automatically, neither of them having to hesitate about where to turn or which bridge to take: the unconscious navigation of the average Venetian is surpas…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"In Campo Manin, the bodies of dead shops lined the way to the canal. There was a dead Middle Eastern fast-food place, a dead sporting goods shop, a dead clothes shop with two dead mannequins in the w…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"While del Balzo spoke, Brunetti turned off his ears and observed the speaking man, a habit he had developed during years of interrogating suspects, listening to witnesses, or sometimes hearing his ch…"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
"Have you been reading the letters of Rosa Luxemburg again, Donatella?’ Brunetti asked in a normal voice. She laughed her bright laugh, a sound he delighted in hearing because to be thought clever or …"-Donna Leon, Give Unto Others (Commissario Brunetti, #31)
13. Venomous Lumpsucker
By: Ned Beauman
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more
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"I can’t believe this!"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker
14. Landlines
By: Raynor Winn
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"-Raynor Winn, Landlines
15. And Then She Fell
By: Alicia Elliott
3.90
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more
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"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell
16. The Fair Botanists
By: Sara Sheridan
3.91
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
It's the summer of 1822 and Edinburgh is abuzz with rumours of King George IV's impending visit. I… read more
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17. All Art is Ecological
By: Timothy Morton
3.39
Format: 105 pages, Paperback
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.Provocative an… read more
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- nonfiction
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- essays
18. Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
By: Chelsea Hodson
3.75
Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition
A highly anticipated collection, from the writer Maggie Nelson has called, “bracingly good…refreshi… read more
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- essays
"I’ve always liked men who look as if they’re from another time."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I didn't keep a journal then. I was busy, or I thought I was, but mostly I thought anything important would stay with me."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"I’m trying to write something so good, so pure, so perfect that I’ll never have to have children; I’ll have created something that can stand in for me, that can live on after me.."-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
"Money can do that if you let it--if you close your eyes and enter its dream, the one where you are well dressed, fit, successful, in love with exactly the right person. The gym I used to belong to co…"-Chelsea Hodson, Tonight I'm Someone Else: Essays
19. Madame Edwarda, Le Mort, Histoire de l'œil
By: Georges Bataille
3.61
Format: None pages, Paperback
Penser ce qui excède la possibilité de penser, gagner le point où le coeur manque, les moments où l… read more
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20. Some of Us Just Fall: On Nature and Not Getting Better
By: Polly Atkin
4.18
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
'It raises the standard of nature writing. This is both radical manifesto and activism in book form… read more
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21. This Book is a Plant: How to Grow, Learn and Radically Engage with the Natural World
By: Eduardo Navarro
4.04
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
We've become used to thinking of plants as things for us to use: as food, tools, resources, or just… read more
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- essays
- environment
- nature
- science
