The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel
By: Rainer Willmann
4.32
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosophe…
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1. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
2. The Waves
By: Virginia Woolf
4.15
Format: 297 pages, Paperback
Set on the coast of England against the vivid background of the sea, The Waves introduces six chara… read more
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"Death is woven in with the violets,"-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"Up here my eyes are green leaves, unseeing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
"But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing."-Virginia Woolf, The Waves
3. I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
By: Ed Yong
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Every animal, whether human, squid, or wasp, is home to millions of bacteria and other microbes. Ma… read more
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- nonfiction
- nature
- science
"I was struck by how different everything seemed with microbes in mind."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"The brutal contract of natural selection ensures that if one partner is unnecessary, it gets dumped."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, "Animals might be evolution's icing, but bacteria are really the cake."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
"There’s a popular saying among doctors: There’s no such thing as alternative medicine; if it works, it’s just called medicine."-Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
4. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969
By: Alan Moore , Kevin O'Neill
4.19
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
The third volume detailing the exploits of Miss Wilhelmina Murray and her extraordinary colleagues,… read more
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5. My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (My Brother's Husband Omnibus, #1)
By: Gengoroh Tagame , Anne Ishii
4.09
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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6. Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
3.87
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In this series of linked personal essays, Robin Wall Kimmerer leads general readers and scientists … read more
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7. 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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- ecology
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- nonfiction
- nature
- 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
8. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- nature
- 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
9. Winter’s Orbit
By: Everina Maxwell
3.99
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Ancillary Justice meets Red, White & Royal Blue in Everina Maxwell's exciting debut. While the I… read more
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"Jainan,"-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit
"Some things feel the same no matter how much time passes."-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit
"Bears often hoard rose petals to strew on hiking couples. Little-known romantic fact."-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit
"His eyes reflected the light from the hall; behind him, beyond the void, the stars burned in the enduring points; far beyond them, a telescope could have seen the maelstrom of the link, and a million…"-Everina Maxwell, Winter’s Orbit
10. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)
By: Randall Munroe
4.37
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
11. The Terraformers
By: Annalee Newitz
3.37
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more
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12. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
By: Nick Harkaway
4.03
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more
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"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)
13. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography
By: Rob Wilkins
4.68
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
14. Frank Herbert's Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1
By: Brian Herbert
3.96
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The definitive graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science-fiction classic by Fran… read more
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15. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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- history
- nature
- science
16. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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- history
- nature
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
17. L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments
By: Zidrou
3.83
Format: 141 pages, Paperback
Lui, il s'appelle Ulysse. Il est veuf depuis plusieurs années et lorsqu'il perd son travail de démé… read more
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"So, this is retirement? This feeling of emptiness?"-Zidrou, L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments
"When you’re born prematurely, you want to live more quickly than other people. The good, the bad, everything!"-Zidrou, L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments
"To all the fish, big or small. May a wave carry you to the top of a tree some day. And from that summit, may you contemplate the immensity of the ocean."-Zidrou, L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments
"What am I going to do? Not read, anyway… I hate reading! Finally change that leaky shower head? Never! At least this way there’s somebody to cry over my fate."-Zidrou, L'obsolescence programmée de nos sentiments
18. 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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- history
- nature
- science
"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
19. Silver Nitrate
By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
3.61
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more
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20. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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- nature
- science
"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
21. 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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"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
22. Whalefall
By: Daniel Kraus
3.73
Format: 327 pages, Hardcover
Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more
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"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall
23. Quietly Hostile: Essays
By: Samantha Irby
3.70
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more
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- nonfiction
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays
24. Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA
By: Neil Shubin
4.14
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
In Some Assembly Required, Neil Shubin takes readers on a journey of discovery spanning centuries, … read more
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- history
- nature
- science
25. Redouté. The Book of Flowers
By: H. Walter Lack
4.59
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
French flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) devoted himself exclusively to capturing th… read more
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- nonfiction
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26. The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
By: Gwyneth Lewis
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
The great work of Welsh literature, translated in full for the first time in over 100 years by two … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
"I saw mighty men On their way to battle, I saw blood on the ground As the swords rush forward, The dawn's wings growing blue As the spears took flight."-Gwyneth Lewis, The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
"It is death's || sad sleep || that I grieve. For the court, || and Cunedda's || shroud. I long for || a sea inlet, || for the sea's flow, For the herd || and hearth || I'm longing."-Gwyneth Lewis, The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
"From sea's wide spring || out flows the tide: It advances, retreats, || it smashes, crushes. The lament for Cú Roí || has distressed me; The cold silencing, of a hard man || full of passion: I've sel…"-Gwyneth Lewis, The Book of Taliesin: Poems of Warfare and Praise in an Enchanted Britain
27. The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel
By: Rainer Willmann
4.32
Format: 511 pages, Hardcover
Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919) was a German-born biologist, naturalist, evolutionist, artist, philosophe… read more
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- ecology
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28. The Aeneid
By: Virgil
3.87
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more
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"Death's brother, sleep."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"No help or hope of help existed."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."-Virgil, The Aeneid
"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."-Virgil, The Aeneid
