13 must-read science books like To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker

Cover of To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker

To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

By: Alden Wicker

4.32

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A Silent Spring for your wardrobe, To Dye For is a jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the…

If you liked the science plot in To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker , here is a list of 13 books like this:

1. Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting

By: Ann Hood

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

"The impressive collection of writers here have contributed essays that celebrate knitting and knit… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hood's Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

Cover of Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic by Emily Monosson

2. Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

By: Emily Monosson

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A prescient warning about the mysterious and deadly world of fungi―and how to avert further loss ac… read more

Similar categories in Emily Monosson's Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • environment
  • science
Cover of To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker

3. To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

By: Alden Wicker

4.32

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A Silent Spring for your wardrobe, To Dye For is a jolting exposé that reveals the true cost of the… read more

Similar categories in Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • fashion
  • adult
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet by Ben  Goldfarb

4. Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

By: Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023 and Editors' Choice • A Science News Favorite Book of 2023 • … read more

Similar categories in Ben Goldfarb's Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future by Oliver Franklin-Wallis

5. Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing … read more

Similar categories in Oliver Franklin-Wallis's Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • audiobook
"Cleaning up is expensive; arson is cheap."

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"As modern agriculture and supply chains have made food cheap, diverse, and plentiful, it can also sometimes feel that we have forgotten to value the food we do eat, or understand the environmental or…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

"Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don…"

-Oliver Franklin-Wallis, Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future

Cover of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon

6. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

Similar categories in Cat Bohannon's Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food by Chris van Tulleken

7. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • audiobook
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

8. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Orenstein's Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Cover of The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

9. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

10. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • health
Cover of The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

11. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

By: J.B. MacKinnon

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more

Similar categories in J.B. MacKinnon's The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • audiobook
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"

-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

Cover of Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser

12. Worn: A People's History of Clothing

By: Sofi Thanhauser

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it's made of--an unparalleled d… read more

Similar categories in Sofi Thanhauser's Worn: A People's History of Clothing book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • fashion
  • science
Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

13. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

Similar categories in Jane Marie's Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • economics
  • audiobook
Cover of Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs by Johann Hari

14. Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs

By: Johann Hari

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus offers a revelatory look at the drugs u… read more

Similar categories in Johann Hari's Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • audiobook
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close by Hannah  Carlson

15. Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close

By: Hannah Carlson

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Who knew the humble pocket could hold so much history? In this enthralling and always surprising a… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Carlson's Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • fashion
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption by Katy Kelleher

16. The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption

By: Katy Kelleher

3.57

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the f… read more

Similar categories in Katy Kelleher's The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on Desire and Consumption book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier by Patrick  Grant

17. Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

By: Patrick Grant

4.37

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s book is fascinat… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Grant's Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Clean: The New Science of Skin by James Hamblin

18. Clean: The New Science of Skin

By: James Hamblin

3.91

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

The author of the popular Atlantic articles "You're Likely to Get the Coronavirus" and "I Quit Show… read more

Similar categories in James Hamblin's Clean: The New Science of Skin book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Capitalism sells nothing so effectively as status."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"Self and other is less of a dichotomy than a continuum."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"As we change our worlds, we change our bodies. The old duality between environmental health and human health is obsolete."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

"[E]ven our most personal decisions about caring for our bodies have long been influenced and manipulated by larger power structures."

-James Hamblin, Clean: The New Science of Skin

Cover of A Healthier Home: The Room by Room Guide to Make Any Space A Little Less Toxic by Shawna Holman

19. A Healthier Home: The Room by Room Guide to Make Any Space A Little Less Toxic

By: Shawna Holman

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

“If you are looking for a tangible, stress-free guide to protect you and your family from everyday … read more

Similar categories in Shawna Holman's A Healthier Home: The Room by Room Guide to Make Any Space A Little Less Toxic book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods by Sarah Lohman

20. Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods

By: Sarah Lohman

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

American food traditions are in danger of being lost. How do we save them? Apples, a common New Eng… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Lohman's Endangered Eating: America's Vanishing Foods book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • science
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy by Rebecca Burgess

21. Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy

By: Rebecca Burgess

4.12

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A new "farm-to-closet" vision for the clothes we wear--by a leader in the movement for local textil… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Burgess's Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy book and Alden Wicker's To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

  • audiobook
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • fashion
  • environment
  • science

5 Best adult books like To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back by Alden Wicker

Transform Your Habits

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Emily Monosson

3.87

Transform Your Habits

To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back

Alden Wicker

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

Jane Marie

3.78

View all the books

11 Best adult books like Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

Transform Your Habits

The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

Amanda Montell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Transform Your Habits

One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Kate Kennedy

3.78

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.