6 must-read biography books like The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart

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The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

By: Amy Stewart

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Fifty gorgeously illustrated vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by th…

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1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Laing's The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • environment
  • science
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • essays
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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3. 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
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • environment
  • science
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4. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

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5. A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

By: Kevin Fedarko

4.36

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mil… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Fedarko's A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • nature
"You were made and set here to give voice to this, your own astonishment. -Annie Dillard"

-Kevin Fedarko, A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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6. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
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7. Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From a marine biologist and co-founder of Minorities in Shark Sciences, a powerful debut the uplif… read more

Similar categories in Jasmin Graham's Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nature
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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8. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)

By: Alan Bradley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more

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9. The Gardener's Plot

By: Deborah J. Benoit

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman helps set up a community garden in the Berkshires, only to find a body in one of the plot's… read more

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10. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Twilley's Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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11. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer by Rick Jervis

12. The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer

By: Rick Jervis

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking true-crime story of a Texas border patrol agent turned serial killer, the four sex wor… read more

Similar categories in Rick Jervis's The Devil Behind the Badge: The Horrifying Twelve Days of the Border Patrol Serial Killer book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

13. The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.68

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision … read more

Similar categories in Robin Wall Kimmerer's The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy  Stewart

14. The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

By: Amy Stewart

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Fifty gorgeously illustrated vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by th… read more

Similar categories in Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • biography
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • science nature
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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15. Good People: Stories From the Best of Humanity

By: Gabriel Reilich

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For anyone who could use proof that the world is full of good people, this beautifully illustrated … read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Reilich's Good People: Stories From the Best of Humanity book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • short stories
  • biography
  • essays
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16. On Freedom

By: Timothy Snyder

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only c… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Snyder's On Freedom book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • essays
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17. Connie: A Memoir

By: Connie Chung

4.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In an industry dominated by white men, Connie Chung stood alone, the first and only Asian woman to … read more

Similar categories in Connie Chung's Connie: A Memoir book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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18. Library Girl

By: Polly Horvath

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

After secretly living in the public library for the last eleven years, Essie must learn to adapt to… read more

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Cover of What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird by Sy Montgomery

19. What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

By: Sy Montgomery

3.94

Format: 91 pages, Kindle Edition

A charming and eye-opening exploration of the special relationship between humans and chickens from… read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird book and Amy Stewart's The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel

20. The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science

By: Dava Sobel

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed Pulitzer Prize finalist and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Galileo’s Daughte… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • science
Cover of Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors by Amber Share

21. Subpar Planet: The World's Most Celebrated Landmarks and Their Most Disappointed Visitors

By: Amber Share

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of Subpar Parks Amber Share takes us around the g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature

17 Best nonfiction books like The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession by Amy Stewart

Transform Your Habits

The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

Olivia Laing

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

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

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

4.36

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18 Top audiobook books like Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung

Transform Your Habits

You Never Know: A Memoir

Tom Selleck

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Art of Power: My Story as America's First Woman Speaker of the House

Nancy Pelosi

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Lovely One: A Memoir

Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

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