7 best-selling birds books like The Book of the Barn Owl by Sally Coulthard

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The Book of the Barn Owl

By: Sally Coulthard

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Few of us know what goes on after dark, underneath the moon. Sally Coulthard shines a light on the …

If you liked the birds plot in The Book of the Barn Owl by Sally Coulthard , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Toad Triumphant

By: William Horwood , Patrick Benson

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This stunning sequel follows the further adventures of four of the most beloved characters in Engli… read more

Similar categories in William Horwood's Toad Triumphant book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • animals
  • nature
  • british literature
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2. Agnes Grey

By: Anne Brontë , Angeline Goreau

3.71

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Drawing heavily from personal experience, Anne Bro… read more

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  • british literature
"Dakle,"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"No one cares for the exterior."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"But, God knows best, I concluded."

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

"If you require perfection, you never will"

-Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

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3. Fiesta en la madriguera

By: Juan Pablo Villalobos

3.78

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A Tochtli le gustan los sombreros, los diccionarios, los samuráis, las guillotinas y los franceses.… read more

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"Це весела тема - з війною, мерцями і кров'ю."

-Juan Pablo Villalobos, Fiesta en la madriguera

"In the end I chose the names I still liked after repeating then 100 times. It's a foolproof test. You repeat something 100 times and if you still like it it's because it's good. This doesn't just wor…"

-Juan Pablo Villalobos, Fiesta en la madriguera

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4. The Willows in Winter (Tales of the Willows, #1)

By: William Horwood , Patrick Benson

4.00

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

For now, in an act of homage and celebration, William Horwood has brought to life once more the fou… read more

Similar categories in William Horwood's The Willows in Winter (Tales of the Willows, #1) book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • animals
  • british literature
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5. The Velveteen Rabbit

By: Margery Williams Bianco , William Nicholson

4.30

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

Nursery magic is very strange and wonderful, and only those playthings that are old and wise and ex… read more

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  • animals
"When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"...because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

"He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter."

-Margery Williams Bianco, The Velveteen Rabbit

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6. A Woman in the Polar Night

By: Christiane Ritter

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

For most of us, the Arctic conjures up images of freezing and forsaken solitude. Hence, Austrian pa… read more

Similar categories in Christiane Ritter's A Woman in the Polar Night book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks

7. Round Ireland with a Fridge

By: Tony Hawks

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Have you ever made a drunken bet? Worse still, have you ever tried to win one? In attempting to hit… read more

Similar categories in Tony Hawks's Round Ireland with a Fridge book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • nonfiction

8. Lupercal

By: Ted Hughes

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

The authors second collection which prints some of his most revered work including Pike, Hawk Roost… read more

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9. The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl

4.37

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Book of the Barn Owl by Sally Coulthard

10. The Book of the Barn Owl

By: Sally Coulthard

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Few of us know what goes on after dark, underneath the moon. Sally Coulthard shines a light on the … read more

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

  • british literature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets by Dawn French

11. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

Similar categories in Dawn French's The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • nonfiction
Cover of River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road by Cat Jarman

12. River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road

By: Cat Jarman

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new history that dramatically reassesses how far the Viking world extended. Dr Cat Ja… read more

Similar categories in Cat Jarman's River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Road book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Lost Spells by Robert Macfarlane

13. The Lost Spells

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the internationally bestselling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is a bea… read more

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Lost Spells book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"Loss is the tune of our age, hard to miss and hard to bear. Creatures, places and words disappear, day after day, year on year. But there has always been singing in the dark times-- and wonder is nee…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Lost Spells

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14. Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

By: Dan Flores

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa So… read more

Similar categories in Dan Flores's Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
"The prescription I've come to seems to be this. Know the heaven and earth that was, but experience the world that is."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"Our disruption of ecologies around the world isn't just threatening wildife extinctions. It's posing an existential threat to our own species."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"And it wasn't just passenger pigeons and buffalo. A legacy of animal cleansing was visible everywhere you looked in the United States of the 1920s."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

"...we Americans have never been good at accepting blame for screwing up the world. Surely the gods, or the government, or the Chinese, or the sun! must be doing this. It can't be us."

-Dan Flores, Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America

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15. Wilding

By: Isabella Tree

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp in West Sussex was… read more

Similar categories in Isabella Tree's Wilding book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • british literature
  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
"People have a famously soft spot for pigs. Intelligent, inquisitive, imperious, myopic, sociable, gluttonous, grunting, ungainly, it is easy to recognize ourselves in them."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"The great concerns of our time – climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health – all boil down to the condition of the soil."

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"Over the years modern farming has reduced soil to....‘dirt’ – a sterile medium in which plants struggle to grow without artificial fertilizers. It is a self-perpetuating cycle of destruction and chem…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

"But the world of academia is a strange, sometimes counterproductive and often sluggish place. Where one may expect it to be open and responsive to new thinking, it can be oddly conservative and resis…"

-Isabella Tree, Wilding

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16. George: A Magpie Memoir

By: Frieda Hughes

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“ He was a hectic, unprincipled bird, but it was impossible not to love him.” From poet and painter… read more

Similar categories in Frieda Hughes's George: A Magpie Memoir book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • birds
  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
"The joy of such a purpose is that it gives you a reason to ignore everything else. There is nothing so effective in taking one's mind off the practical concerns of our lives as a living creature that…"

-Frieda Hughes, George: A Magpie Memoir

Cover of Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 2 by Itaru Kinoshita

17. Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 2

By: Itaru Kinoshita

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

A SMALL MISTAKE... CHANGES EVERYTHING FOR DINOSAURS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED… When dinosaurs were… read more

Similar categories in Itaru Kinoshita's Dinosaur Sanctuary, Vol. 2 book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • animals
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18. Garlic and the Witch

By: Bree Paulsen

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Bree Paulsen's brave little protagonist, Garlic, is back in this charmingly illustrated standalone … read more

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19. The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

By: Sy Montgomery

3.77

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature’s most perfect and mysterious creatures—the ha… read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
"Hawks do not play by our rules. You can never assume that a hawk, even one you raised from a chick, will forgive your mistakes—sometimes a single error ruptures the relationship forever. A hawk will …"

-Sy Montgomery, The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty

Cover of Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead

20. Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History, from Cave Art to Conservation

By: Tim Birkhead

3.85

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our … read more

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  • animals
  • nonfiction
  • birds
  • nature
  • science
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21. Just Ignore Him

By: Alan Davies

4.36

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • british literature
"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

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22. 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

Similar categories in Derek Gow's Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Secret Life of the Owl by John Lewis-Stempel

23. The Secret Life of the Owl

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.85

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

‘Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light.Out in the wood, the res… read more

Similar categories in John Lewis-Stempel's The Secret Life of the Owl book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

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

24. 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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Cover of Woodland Folk Tales by Lisa Schneidau

25. Woodland Folk Tales

By: Lisa Schneidau

3.90

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Once upon a time, most of Britain and Ireland was covered in woodland. Many of the trees have been … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Schneidau's Woodland Folk Tales book and Sally Coulthard's The Book of the Barn Owl

  • nature
  • british literature
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26. 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

Cover of The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest by Neil Ansell

27. The Circling Sky: On Nature and Belonging in an English Forest

By: Neil Ansell

4.11

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Part childhood memoir, blended with exquisite nature observation, and the story of one man's journe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of 21st Century Yokel by Tom  Cox

28. 21st Century Yokel

By: Tom Cox

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature
  • british literature
Cover of How To Argue With A Cat by Jay Heinrichs

29. How To Argue With A Cat

By: Jay Heinrichs

3.40

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

If you can persuade a cat ... you can persuade anyone. This is the essential guide to getting your … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Starman - David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Years by Reinhard Kleist

30. Starman - David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust Years

By: Reinhard Kleist

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

1972 erlebte die Geburt des Rock'n'Roll-Messias Ziggy Stardust, dessen provokantes Spiel mit sexuel… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Year Unfolding: A Printmaker's View by Angela Harding

31. A Year Unfolding: A Printmaker's View

By: Angela Harding

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A cosy and delightful book - a real joy to behold.' Daily Mail 'A gorgeous book to be treasured'… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • animals
  • nature

21 Best nonfiction books like The Book of the Barn Owl by Sally Coulthard

Transform Your Habits

A Woman in the Polar Night

Christiane Ritter

4.88

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Round Ireland with a Fridge

Tony Hawks

4.12

Transform Your Habits

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

Transform Your Habits

The Book of the Barn Owl

Sally Coulthard

4.16

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7 Top fiction books like Woodland Folk Tales by Lisa Schneidau

Transform Your Habits

The Eye of the North

Sinéad O'Hart

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Nordic Tales: Folktales from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark

Ulla Thynell

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Scottish Myths & Legends (Celtic Myths & Legends Retold, #1)

Daniel Allison

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart: And Other Stories

GennaRose Nethercott

3.76

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