5 must-read nature books like Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet by Johan Rockström

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Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet

By: Johan Rockström

4.22

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of "planetary stewa…

If you liked the nature plot in Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet by Johan Rockström , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Doctor Glas

By: Margaret Atwood , Hjalmar Söderberg , Paul Britten Austin

3.70

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A masterpiece of enduring power,  Doctor Glas  confronts a chilling moral quandary with gripping in… read more

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"We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Besynnerligt, att det alltid går en rysning genom luften före soluppgången."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"Nothing diminishes and degrades a human being more than the knowledge of being unloved."

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

"La moralidad es un servicio doméstico, no una divinidad. Conviene usarla, pero no debe mandar"

-Margaret Atwood, Doctor Glas

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2. The Dead

By: James Joyce

3.99

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Often cited as the best work of short fiction ever written, Joyce's story details a New Year's Eve … read more

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"Like distant music these words that he had written years before were borne towards him from the past."

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"In one letter that he had written to her then he had said: 'Why is it that words like these seem to me so dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?"

-James Joyce, The Dead

"Escuchando esta noche los nombres de esos grandes cantantes del pasado me pa­reció, debo confesarlo, que vivimos en época menos espaciosa. Aquéllos se pueden llamar, sin exageración, días espaciosos:…"

-James Joyce, The Dead

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3. Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

By: Donella H. Meadows , Jørgen Randers , Dennis L. Meadows

4.22

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

In 1972 four young scientists at MIT wrote The Limits to Growth, which shocked theworld and became … read more

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  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Faith in technology as the ultimate solution to all problems can thus divert our attention from the most fundamental problem-the problem of growth in a finite system and prevent us from taking effect…"

-Donella H. Meadows, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

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4. Kallocain

By: Karin Boye , Gustaf Lannestock , Richard B. Vowles

3.72

Format: 193 pages, Paperback

This is a novel of the future, profoundly sinister in its vision of a drab terror. Ironic and detac… read more

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"Ur tankar och känslor föds ord och handlingar. Hur skulle tankar och känslor då kunna vara den enskildes ensak? (...) Hittills har det bara inte varit möjligt att kontrollera dem - men nu är alltså m…"

-Karin Boye, Kallocain

"На стіні висіли чутливе «поліційне вухо» й «поліційне око», таке саме зірке в темряві, як і при світлі. Ніхто не заперечить того, що ці органи дуже потрібні. Якби не вони, скільки помешкань могло б с…"

-Karin Boye, Kallocain

"Попри те, цього вечора не годилося поводитися понуро й сумувати. На урочистостях, присвячених примноженню добра й достатку Держави, має панувати піднесений настрій. Мабуть, моя доля пішла б іншим шля…"

-Karin Boye, Kallocain

"Збуджена, приязно налаштована юрба озвалася на мої слова бурею оплесків і схвальних вигуків. Але я бачив, що не всі аплодували. Коли плеще в долоні тисяча, а двоє сидять склавши руки, то ці двоє пере…"

-Karin Boye, Kallocain

5. The Diary of a Nobody

By: George Grossmith , Weedon Grossmith

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Paperback

Weedon Grossmith's 1892 book presents the details of English suburban life through the anxious and … read more

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6. Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

By: None

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'I see [Raworth] as the John Maynard Keynes of the 21st Century: by ref… read more

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7. Lies

By: Enrique de Hériz

3.27

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Isabel Azuera, an anthropologist, is deep in the jungle of northern Guatemala. She has told everyon… read more

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8. Le Comte de Monte-Cristo I

By: Alexandre Dumas , Jean-Yves Tadié , Gilbert Sigaux

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tome I de II. << On fit encore quatre ou cinq pas en montant toujours, puis Dantes sentit qu'on le … read more

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9. The Emperor of Portugalia

By: Selma Lagerlöf

3.89

Format: 272 pages,

Dottern Klara Fina Gulleborg ar livets ljus for den varmlandske torparen Jan i Skrotlycka. Nar hon … read more

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10. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Other Plays

By: Tennessee Williams

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

As mirrors of his emotional and imaginative life, the plays of Tennessee Williams explore the darke… read more

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11. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning jou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"All great nations spend peacetime preparing for the day war breaks out."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"India and Pakistan can agree on one thing: neither wants the other one around."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"What is now the EU was set up so that France and Germany could hug each other so tightly in a loving embrace that neither would be able to get an arm free with which to punch the other."

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

"THE MIDDLE OF WHAT? EAST OF WHERE? THE REGION’S VERY name is based on a European view of the world, and it is a European view of the region that shaped it. The Europeans used ink to draw lines on map…"

-Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics

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12. The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

By: Tim Marshall

4.20

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

In this revelatory new book, Marshall explores ten regions that are set to shape global politics in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"Vietnam is an irritation for China. For centuries the two have squabbled over territory, and unfortunately for both this is the one area to the south which has a border an army can get across without…"

-Tim Marshall, The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World

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13. Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

By: Carlo Rovelli

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
"But structures are processes are not there so that organisms can survive and reproduce. It is the other way round: organisms survive and reproduce because these structures have happened to gradually …"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"Credo che uno dei grandi errori che fanno gli esseri umani quando tentano di capire qualcosa sia volere certezze. La ricerca della conoscenza non si nutre di certezze: si nutre di una radicale assenz…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

"In qualunque angolo dell'universo troviamo vertiginosi pozzi di strati di realtà. In questi strati siamo riusciti a riconoscere regolarità, sulle quali abbiamo raccolto informazione rilevante per noi…"

-Carlo Rovelli, Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution

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14. Tranorna flyger söderut

By: Lisa Ridzén

4.26

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

En varm debutroman i samma anda som Löpa varg. Om en åldrad mans kamp för att behålla makten över s… read more

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15. The Shortest History of Germany

By: James Hawes

3.72

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"

-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany

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16. Jävla karlar

By: Andrev Walden

4.07

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

"En gång hade jag sju pappor på sju år. Det här är berättelsen om de åren. Om något låter påhittat … read more

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"Min pappa är indian och nu ska jag berätta det för blomma."

-Andrev Walden, Jävla karlar

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17. Systrarna

By: Jonas Hassen Khemiri

4.19

Format: 722 pages, Hardcover

"Första gången jag hörde talas om Mikkolasystrarna var jag fem eller sex år gammal, jag satt på var… read more

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18. The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

By: Patrik Svensson

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably little is known about the European eel, Anguilla anguilla. So little, in fact, that scie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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19. No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

By: Greta Thunberg

3.86

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young climate activist who has become the voice … read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"The real power belongs to the people."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"...But it is the sufferings of the many which pay for the luxuries of a few."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"You say that you love your children above everything else. And yet you are stealing their future."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

"Those of us who are still children can’t change what you do now once we’re old enough to do something about it."

-Greta Thunberg, No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference

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20. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

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  • climate change
  • environment
"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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21. Döda kvinnor förlåter inte (Sekelskiftesmorden, #1)

By: Katarina Wennstam

4.05

Format: 443 pages, Hardcover

Första delen av Sekelskiftesmorden Fyra kvinnor ur olika samhällsklasser bor alla i samma fastig… read more

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22. Girig-Sverige: så blev folkhemmet ett paradis för de superrika

By: Andreas Cervenka

3.99

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

Bostadspriser som rusar mest i västvärlden. Hundratusentals svenskar som kastar sig in på börsen. E… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Stolen

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that fo… read more

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"Plötsligt började áhkku sjunga, högt, med klar röst. En samisk psalm. Hanna stod en bra bit bort men hon vände sig om, lyssnade och sjönk ihop, såg ut att kunna ramla. "

-Ann-Helén Laestadius, Stolen

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24. A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

By: David Attenborough

4.51

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

See the world. Then make it better. I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that … read more

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  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Give and take, that is the essence of what balance is all about."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"It seems that, however grave our mistakes, nature will be able to overcome them, given the chance."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

"We often talk of saving the planet, but the truth is that we must do these things to save ourselves. With or without us, the wild will return."

-David Attenborough, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future

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25. Värma händer (Böckerna om Betty, #2)

By: Katarina Widholm

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Stockholm, 1942. Den unga Betty från Hudiksvall är numera gift med sonen i doktorsfamiljen Molander… read more

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26. Przewalskis hest (Klimakvartetten, #3)

By: Maja Lunde

3.86

Format: 549 pages, Hardcover

Publisher's Summary Translated into 36 languages, winner of the Norwegian Bookseller’s Prize, and … read more

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27. Förinta världen ikväll

By: Stina Jackson

3.33

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

I Skellefteå vaknar Ewa och öppnar rastlöst apparna. På andra sidan jorden i västra USA vandrar hen… read more

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28. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

By: Christiana Figueres

4.07

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

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29. Jaume I el Conqueridor (El punyal del sarraí.La reina hongaresa.Parleu o Mateu)

By: Albert Salvadó

3.92

Format: 688 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ser fill de rei no és sinònim de néixer predestinat, i la història de Jaume I, dit el Conqueridor, … read more

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30. Breaking Boundaries: The Science of Our Planet

By: Johan Rockström

4.22

Format: 339 pages, Kindle Edition

On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of "planetary stewa… read more

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  • nature
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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31. Punished

By: Ann-Helén Laestadius

4.16

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen c… read more

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

Donella H. Meadows , Jørgen Randers , Dennis L. Meadows

4.22

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Tim Marshall

4.20

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Tim Marshall

4.20

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Carlo Rovelli

4.08

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Lisa Ridzén

4.26

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Annika Norlin

4.16

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4.07

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