7 best-selling science books like The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann

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The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas

By: Obi Kaufmann

4.44

Format: 640 pages, Flexibound

The first book of a major new trilogy from artist-naturalist Obi Kaufmann. "A call to action … full…

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1. The Vital Abyss (The Expanse, #5.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

3.90

Format: 75 pages, ebook

From New York Times bestselling author James S. A. Corey . . .Somewhere in the vast expanse of spac… read more

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2. Strange Dogs (The Expanse, #6.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.07

Format: 112 pages, ebook

Like many before them, Cara and her family ventured through the gates as scientists and researchers… read more

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3. Upstream: Selected Essays

By: Mary Oliver

2.43

Format: None pages,

Comprising a selection of essays, Upstreamfinds beloved poet Mary Oliver reflecting on her astonish… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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4. The Children of Húrin

By: J.R.R. Tolkien , Christopher Tolkien , Alan Lee

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

The Children of Hurin is the first complete book by J.R.R.Tolkien since the 1977 publication of The… read more

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5. The Blessing Way (Leaphorn & Chee, #1)

By: Tony Hillerman

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Homicide is always an abomination, but there is something exceptionally disturbing about the victim… read more

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6. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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  • art
"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

7. The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada

By: John Muir Laws

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this groundbreaking and meticulously field-tested guide, the rich variety of Sierra life-- trees… read more

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8. 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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9. American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

By: Adam Hochschild

4.21

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning, New York Times bestselling historian Adam Hochschild, a fast-paced, revelatory … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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10. Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

By: C.J. Box

4.36

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett faces two different kinds of rampaging beasts—one animal, one human… read more

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11. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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12. Translation State

By: Ann Leckie

4.09

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

The mystery of a missing translator sets three lives on a collision course that will have a ripple … read more

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"I am not a potato."

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

"You have only small and seemingly pointless choices available to you. But if there is anything I have been trying to teach you, it is that small actions can have larger consequences. If one has only …"

-Ann Leckie, Translation State

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13. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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14. 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
  • history
  • 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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15. Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facili… read more

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16. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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17. Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals among California's Oaks

By: Kate Marianchild

4.57

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oa… read more

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  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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18. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

Cover of The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5) by James S.A. Corey

19. The Sins of Our Fathers (The Expanse, #9.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.14

Format: 64 pages, ebook

Through one of the gates, a colony stands alone. Their supplies are low. Their defenses, weak. The … read more

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Cover of Racing the Light (Elvis Cole #19; Joe Pike #8) by Robert Crais

20. Racing the Light (Elvis Cole #19; Joe Pike #8)

By: Robert Crais

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Private investigator Elvis Cole and his enigmatic partner Joe Pike are back on the case in this bri… read more

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21. The Fall of Númenor: and Other Tales from the Second Age of Middle-earth

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.32

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings on the Second Age of Middle-earth, collected for the first time in one vo… read more

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Cover of Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, #22) by C.J. Box

22. Shadows Reel (Joe Pickett, #22)

By: C.J. Box

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett’s job has many times put his wife and daughters in harm’s way. Now … read more

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23. The Carrying

By: Ada Limon

4.40

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Ada Limón comes The Carryi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
"What if, instead of carrying a child, I am supposed to carry grief?"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"All I’ve been working on is napping, and maybe being kinder to others, to myself."

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I know you don’t always understand, but let me point to the first wet drops landing on the stones, the noise like fingers drumming the skin. I can’t help it. I will never get over making everything s…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

"I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I’ve been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marve…"

-Ada Limon, The Carrying

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24. The Glass Hotel

By: Emily St. John Mandel

3.69

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering inters… read more

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"There’s an inherent pleasure in being unseen."

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"It’s possible to both know and not know something."

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"Memories are always bent retrospectively to fit individual narratives"

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

"(Idea for a ghost story: a woman gets old and falls out of time and realizes that she’s become invisible.)"

-Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel

Cover of Memory's Legion by James S.A. Corey

25. Memory's Legion

By: James S.A. Corey

4.37

Format: 423 pages, Paperback

For the first time, all of the short fiction set in James S. A. Corey’s New York Times bestselling … read more

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26. 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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  • nature
  • history
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"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

Cover of Auberon (The Expanse, #7.5) by James S.A. Corey

27. Auberon (The Expanse, #7.5)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.19

Format: 78 pages, ebook

A novella set in the universe of James S. A. Corey’s NYT-bestselling Expanse series, Auberon explor… read more

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"There’s this thing when you get older where you have to make a choice. Everyone does. You have to decide whether you care more about being your best self or your real one. If you’re more loyal to who…"

-James S.A. Corey, Auberon (The Expanse, #7.5)

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28. The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)

By: J.R.R. Tolkien

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the Tale of The Fall of Gondolin are two of the greatest powers in the world. There is Morgoth o… read more

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"Glory dwelt in that city of Gondolin of the Seven Names, and its ruin was the most dread of all the sacks of cities upon the face of Earth."

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)

"There long he sojourned alone and roamed about the shore or fared over the rocks at the ebb, marvelling at the pools and the great weeds, the dripping caverns and the strange sea-fowl that he saw and…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)

"If I chose to send thee, Tour son of Hour, them believe not that thy one sword is not worth the sending. For the valour of the Edain the Elves shall ever remember as the ages lengthen, marveling that…"

-J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fall of Gondolin (Middle-Earth Universe)

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29. How Much of These Hills Is Gold

By: C Pam Zhang

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An electric debut novel set against the twilight of the American gold rush, two siblings are on the… read more

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"Burial is just another recipe"

-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

"Ba dies in the night, prompting them to seek two silver dollars."

-C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold

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30. The High Sierra: A Love Story

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

4.27

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

A “sublime” and “radically original” exploration of the Sierra Nevadas, the best mountains on Earth… read more

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  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann

31. The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas

By: Obi Kaufmann

4.44

Format: 640 pages, Flexibound

The first book of a major new trilogy from artist-naturalist Obi Kaufmann. "A call to action … full… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • natural history
  • field guides
  • nonfiction
  • reference
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

7 Best history books like The Forests of California: A California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann

Transform Your Habits

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

Merlin Sheldrake

4.35

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Adam Hochschild

4.21

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

3.84

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4.20

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3.84

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John Scalzi

4.16

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Sabrina Imbler

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