12 must-read nonfiction books like Tropical Plants and How to Love Them: Building a Relationship with Heat-Loving Plants When You Don't Live In The Tropics by Marianne Willburn

Cover of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them: Building a Relationship with Heat-Loving Plants When You Don't Live In The Tropics by Marianne Willburn

Tropical Plants and How to Love Them: Building a Relationship with Heat-Loving Plants When You Don't Live In The Tropics

By: Marianne Willburn

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Adventurous Gardener seeks relationship with Tropical Plant… *As featured in The New York Times * …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Tropical Plants and How to Love Them: Building a Relationship with Heat-Loving Plants When You Don't Live In The Tropics by Marianne Willburn , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. The Accidental Tourist

By: Anne Tyler

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Paperback

Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is ground… read more

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2. The Signature of All Things

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

3.87

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A glorious, sweeping novel of desire, ambition, and the thirst for knowledge, from the # 1 New York… read more

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"She did not need a library; she was a library."

-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

"Who will ever kiss this encyclopedia of a head?"

-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

"The most urgent war is always the one fought at home"

-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

"Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not."

-Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

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3. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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4. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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5. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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6. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

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"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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8. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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9. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket

By: Benjamin Lorr

3.95

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. Kit McBride Gets a Wife (The McBrides of Montana, #1)

By: Amy Barry

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The four McBride brothers have their worlds turned upside down when their precocious younger sister… read more

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11. 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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"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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12. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

By: George Monbiot

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more

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"Charity is what happens when government fails."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

Cover of Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers. by Sy Montgomery

13. Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

By: Sy Montgomery

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and  New York Times  bestseller Sy Montgome… read more

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"Never give up on a turtle. Because turtles never give up."

-Sy Montgomery, Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell: A heartwarming compassionate portrait of injured turtles, perfect for nature lovers.

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14. Terrain: The Houseplant Book: An Insider's Guide to Cultivating and Collecting the Most Sought-After Specimens

By: Melissa Lowrie

4.39

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

“An informative and inspiring guide to collecting and growing plants at home.”—Gardenista   “This b… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them: Building a Relationship with Heat-Loving Plants When You Don't Live In The Tropics by Marianne Willburn

15. Tropical Plants and How to Love Them: Building a Relationship with Heat-Loving Plants When You Don't Live In The Tropics

By: Marianne Willburn

4.19

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Adventurous Gardener seeks relationship with Tropical Plant… *As featured in The New York Times * … read more

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12 Top politics books like Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

Transform Your Habits

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

Hannah Ritchie

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

George Monbiot

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

Jason Hickel

4.51

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