10 best-selling science books like Fox & I by Catherine Raven

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Fox & I

By: Catherine Raven

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p…

"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everything else ringing, beeping, and buzzing until we can't even hear aspen leaves quaking. Think about all the changes that our species has experienced in the last several thousand years. Too many. Too fast."

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everything else ringing, beeping, and buzzing until we can't even hear aspen leaves quaking. Think about all the changes that our species has experienced in the last several thousand years. Too many. Too fast."

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

If you liked the science plot in Fox & I by Catherine Raven , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur by Sy Montgomery

1. Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

By: Sy Montgomery

4.16

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Meet the a flock of smart, affectionate, highly individualistic chickens who visit their favorite … read more

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time by Andrew Forsthoefel

2. Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time

By: Andrew Forsthoefel

3.11

Format: None pages,

Life is fast, and I've found it's easy to confuse the miraculous for the mundane, so I'm slowing do… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Forsthoefel's Walking to Listen: 4,000 Miles Across America, One Story at a Time book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Mother Angelica's Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures by Raymond Arroyo, Mother Angelica

3. Mother Angelica's Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures

By: Raymond Arroyo , Mother Angelica

3.94

Format: 160 pages,

The Word is made fresh by the irrepressible Mother Angelica as she personally escorts you through t… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Arroyo's Mother Angelica's Private and Pithy Lessons from the Scriptures book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • nonfiction
Cover of Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America by Liz Carlisle

4. Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

By: Liz Carlisle

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A protege of Michael Pollan shares the story of a little known group of renegade farmers who defied… read more

Similar categories in Liz Carlisle's Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment

5. H is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Obsession, madness, memory, myth, and history combine to achieve a distinctive blend of nature writ… read more

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6. Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling

By: John Muir Laws

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The ultimate guide to nature drawing and journaling. This is the how-to guide for becoming a better… read more

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7. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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8. 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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Cover of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

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 Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald

10. Vesper Flights

By: Helen Macdonald

4.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Animals don't exist in order to teach us things, but that is what they have always done, and most … read more

Similar categories in Helen Macdonald's Vesper Flights book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"There's a special phenomenology to walking in woods in winter."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"We call them murmurations, but the Danish term, sort sol , is better: black sun."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"For even if we don't believe in miracles, they are there, and they are waiting for us to find them."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

"(P)ulling at your heart on purpose is a compulsion as particular and disconcerting as pressing on a healing bruise."

-Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

Cover of Fox & I by Catherine Raven

11. Fox & I

By: Catherine Raven

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A solitary woman’s inspiring, moving, surprising, and often funny memoir about the transformative p… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Raven's Fox & I book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"I saw myself alone in the furthest future I could imagine."

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

"The habits and habitats of modern life are simply not evolutionarily stable. Metal and plastic. Electric lights blotting out stars. Ten-story buildings blocking sun and moon. Cars honking and everyth…"

-Catherine Raven, Fox & I

Cover of North Woods by Daniel       Mason

12. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future by Gloria Dickie

13. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

By: Gloria Dickie

4.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more

Similar categories in Gloria Dickie's Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"

-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future

Cover of Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden by Camille T. Dungy

14. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

Similar categories in Camille T. Dungy's Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty by Sy Montgomery

15. 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

Similar categories in Sy Montgomery's The Hawk's Way: Encounters with Fierce Beauty book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • 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 The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand

16. The Hidden World of the Fox

By: Adele Brand

3.81

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

Ecologist Adele Brand has devoted her life to understanding the fabled yet enigmatic fox. Now she r… read more

Similar categories in Adele Brand's The Hidden World of the Fox book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • audiobook
  • animals
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of The Oak Papers by James Canton

17. The Oak Papers

By: James Canton

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Thrown into turmoil by the end of his long-term relationship, Professor James Canton spent two year… read more

Similar categories in James Canton's The Oak Papers book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean by Matt Strassler

18. Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

By: Matt Strassler

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A theoretical physicist takes us on an awe-inspiring journey from relativity to the Higgs field, sh… read more

Similar categories in Matt Strassler's Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean book and Catherine Raven's Fox & I

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen

19. Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

By: Karen Auvinen

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk, Karen Au… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • animals
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"The love of a dog is no small thing."

-Karen Auvinen, Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

"I didn't want to view nature as something out there. Instead, like a bear denning for winter, I wanted to climb inside."

-Karen Auvinen, Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living

Cover of What Happens Next: A Traveler’s Guide Through the End of This Age by Max Lucado

20. What Happens Next: A Traveler’s Guide Through the End of This Age

By: Max Lucado

4.73

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Are we living in the end times? If so, what does that mean for me? Max Lucado's optimistic, accessi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Death and Other Holidays by Marci Vogel

21. Death and Other Holidays

By: Marci Vogel

3.63

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The 2017 Miami Book Fair/de Groot Prize winner, this debut fiction introduces a distinctive new Ame… read more

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"Libby's been lecturing me, she claims seawater is the surest antidote for heartbreak. 'It's the salt. Makes up for all the crying."

-Marci Vogel, Death and Other Holidays

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Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingbirds, and One Murderously Big Living Dinosaur

Sy Montgomery

4.16

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Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America

Liz Carlisle

3.95

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The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

4.37

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4.10

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3.41

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Catherine Raven

3.68

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Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

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Bethany Brookshire

4.03

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