5 must-read biology books like The Book of the Earthworm by Sally Coulthard

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The Book of the Earthworm

By: Sally Coulthard

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

For Charles Darwin—who estimated every acre of land contained 53,000 earthworms—the humble earthwor…

If you liked the biology plot in The Book of the Earthworm by Sally Coulthard , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

By: Neil Ansell

4.29

Format: 480 pages,

Neil Ansell spent five years living between the back of beyond and the middle of nowhere, on his ow… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
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2. Cider With Rosie

By: Laurie Lee

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At all times wonderfully evocative and poignant, Cider With Rosieis a charming memoir of Laurie Lee… read more

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  • nonfiction

3. Great Granny Webster

By: Honor Moore , Caroline Blackwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwoo… read more

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4. Life on Earth

By: David Attenborough

3.99

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

In this unique book, David Attenborough has undertaken nothing less than a history of nature, from … read more

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5. Gods, Wasps and Stranglers: The Secret History and Redemptive Future of Fig Trees

By: None

3.62

Format: 192 pages,

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6. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more

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7. Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power

By: Louisa May Alcott , A.M. Barnard

3.49

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Originally published in 1866 under the pseudonym "A. M. Barnard." Louisa May Alcott's novel of roma… read more

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8. The Citadel of Weeping Pearls

By: Aliette de Bodard

4.02

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Citadel of Weeping Pearls was a great wonder; a perfect meld between cutting edge technology an… read more

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9. Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2019 PEN/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing In Eager, environmental jour… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"Pandemonium isn’t convenient, but often it’s more natural than stability."

-Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

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10. How To Catch A Mole

By: Marc Hamer

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

'It is rare to encounter such respect and understanding of nature for herself.' Rosamund Young, aut… read more

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  • nature
  • animals
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
"A feeling of belonging brings with it a desire to build something to mark one's connection, and then, having built - a garden, a house, a career, a tunnel system - one has to protect those things fro…"

-Marc Hamer, How To Catch A Mole

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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
  • science
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
"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

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12. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"

-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

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13. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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14. M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

By: Talia Dutton

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frank… read more

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15. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe

By: Philip Plait

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
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16. Every Exquisite Thing

By: Laura Steven

3.83

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

A feminist YA horror-thriller-romance retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray by the TikTok sensati… read more

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"You deserve to be loved."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"I think I was just born hungry."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"If there are 3 wolves inside of us, all of mine are encyclopaedias"

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

"Forgive the stack of books. They are in all seriousness my best friends."

-Laura Steven, Every Exquisite Thing

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17. Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways

By: Derek Gow

3.97

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously f… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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18. Fifty Words for Snow

By: Nancy Campbell

3.85

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

Fifty international words for snow – explored by an award-winning writer – that will enchant reader… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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19. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

By: Amy-Jane Beer

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"

-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

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20. What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

By: Pandora Sykes

4.08

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bes… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Spendthrift and the Swallow (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #3.5) by Ambrose Parry

21. The Spendthrift and the Swallow (Raven, Fisher, and Simpson, #3.5)

By: Ambrose Parry

3.78

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

Edinburgh, 1853. In a city where reputation is everything, it doesn’t take much to destroy a man. … read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

22. Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

By: John Lewis-Stempel

4.02

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

At night, the normal rules of Nature do not apply. In the night-wood I have met a badger coming the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
"You look at the dark and the dark looks at you."

-John Lewis-Stempel, Nightwalking: Four Journeys Into Britain After Dark

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23. The Wood at Midwinter

By: Susanna Clarke

3.73

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr… read more

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Cover of The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society by C.M. Waggoner

24. The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society

By: C.M. Waggoner

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A librarian with a knack for solving murders realizes there is something decidedly supernatural afo… read more

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Cover of Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience by Natasha Carthew

25. Undercurrent: A Cornish Memoir of Poverty, Nature and Resilience

By: Natasha Carthew

3.79

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

There's a Cornish saying that nothing is left behind in an autumnal tide, the powerful tug between … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of The Book of the Earthworm by Sally Coulthard

26. The Book of the Earthworm

By: Sally Coulthard

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

For Charles Darwin—who estimated every acre of land contained 53,000 earthworms—the humble earthwor… read more

Similar categories in Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Earthworm book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Earthworm

  • science
  • biology
  • animals
  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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27. After They're Gone

By: Peter Marren

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

'Wise, challenging and offering some unexpected laughter in the dark, this is a rational and insigh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Plant Rescuer: The book your houseplants want you to read by Sarah Gerrard-Jones

28. The Plant Rescuer: The book your houseplants want you to read

By: Sarah Gerrard-Jones

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A simple, stylish and complete guide for any houseplant owner Whether you have just one or many ho… read more

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  • gardening
  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of How to Read an Insect: A Smart Guide to What Insects Do and Why by Ross Piper

29. How to Read an Insect: A Smart Guide to What Insects Do and Why

By: Ross Piper

4.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The essential guide to insect behaviour, perfect for the inquisitive gardener or nature lover. Most… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures by Sarah Clegg

30. The Dead of Winter: Beware the Krampus and Other Wicked Christmas Creatures

By: Sarah Clegg

3.77

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Enter the dark side of discover the monsters, witches, and nightmarish traditions behind one of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.13

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Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects

Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

4.22

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Zoë Schlanger

4.37

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