10 Top nature books like Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

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Diary of a Young Naturalist

By: Dara McAnulty

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin…

"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

If you liked the nature plot in Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Journal, 1837-1861

By: Damion Searls , Henry David Thoreau , John R. Stilgoe

3.32

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Henry David Thoreau's Journalwas his life's work: the daily practice of writing that accompanied hi… read more

Similar categories in Damion Searls's The Journal, 1837-1861 book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nature

2. Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field

By: John Lewis-Stempel

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What really goes on in the long grass? Meadowland gives an unique and intimate account of an Englis… read more

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3. Winter: Notes from Montana

By: Rick Bass , Elizabeth Hughes

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

This book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley. read more

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4. Hči lune

By: Desa Muck

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Kako kruto je zivljenje pri stirinajstih! Lucka je v prekrasnega Kristofa, Kristof je v kokosko Dia… read more

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5. Diary of a Young Naturalist

By: Dara McAnulty

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more

Similar categories in Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

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6. Landlines

By: Raynor Winn

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Some people live to walk. Raynor and Moth walk to live . . . Raynor Winn knows that her husband … read more

Similar categories in Raynor Winn's Landlines book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"We're caught in an endless cycle of 'what if', where all we can do is take the next step and see where that leads."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"I know I'm clutching at straws. Every time this disease takes a new leap forward I desperately search for a simple label to put on it, as do the doctors."

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"Irrational, irresponsible, maybe, but in that desperate moment our decision to walk offered every thing we needed — shelter in the form of our tent and a line on a map to follow. It gave us a route f…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

"We stick to the stones, stepping from one to the other, as does everyone else drawn along this thread of stone through the boglands. Isn't this the way humanity should approach everything we do on th…"

-Raynor Winn, Landlines

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7. The Lost Rainforests of Britain

By: Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

From the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Who Owns England?, a mesmerising chronicle of our forgo… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"This was the very heart of Wales' rainforest zone, where the oceanic climate conspires to make conditions perfect for the rich profusion of plant life that we'd spent the past week exploring. Yet her…"

-Guy Shrubsole, The Lost Rainforests of Britain

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8. Keedie

By: Elle McNicoll

4.69

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

Set in Juniper five years before A Kind of Spark, Keedie is a powerful coming-of-age story that tho… read more

Similar categories in Elle McNicoll's Keedie book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • autistic spectrum disorder
"I can't stand people who say they're good when they're not."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"I may be forced to mask, but they choose to wear numerous faces."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"You have to be the cartographer of your own heart. Make it into a map."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

"She's like the sunflower. She'll find the sun no matter how much darkness other people try to put her in."

-Elle McNicoll, Keedie

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9. Vaške ptice

By: Gašper Krajnc

4.22

Format: 82 pages, Hardcover

Vaške ptice, ki jih je sicer povsem mogoče brati tudi samostojno, so nadaljevanje, drugi del »ptičj… read more

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10. Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels

By: Sara Gibbs

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

'It has taken me several years of exploration, but I am at a place now where I see autism as neithe… read more

Similar categories in Sara Gibbs's Drama Queen: One Autistic Woman and a Life of Unhelpful Labels book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • nonfiction
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible by Simon Barnes

11. Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

By: Simon Barnes

3.92

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

We're not just losing the wild world. We're forgetting it. We're no longer noticing it. We've lost … read more

Similar categories in Simon Barnes's Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really …"

-Simon Barnes, Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

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12. The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

By: Katherine Rundell

4.42

Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Rundell's The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"We live in a world of such marvels. We should wake in the morning and as we put on our trousers we should remember the seahorse and we should scream with awe and not stop screaming until we fall asle…"

-Katherine Rundell, The Golden Mole: and Other Living Treasure

Cover of Srebrne vezi by Kaja Bucik Vavpetič

13. Srebrne vezi

By: Kaja Bucik Vavpetič

4.24

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Ko knežna Mila z bratom osvobodi mamo rusalko in nato v strahu pred očetom pobegne z domačega gradu… read more

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Cover of The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer

14. The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

By: Amy-Jane Beer

4.10

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A visit to the rapid where she lost a cherished friend unexpectedly reignites Amy-Jane Beer’s love … read more

Similar categories in Amy-Jane Beer's The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • audiobook
  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"There's a reason we can't look away [from water]. Psycologists call it a 'soft fascination': the sight and sound of moving water is sufficiently stimulating to occupy the brain, but irregular enough …"

-Amy-Jane Beer, The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness

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15. Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

By: Joanne Limburg

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It seemed to me that many of the moments when my autism had caused problems, or at least marked me … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Limburg's Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • nonfiction
  • autistic spectrum disorder
  • biography
  • memoir
"Guilt attaches to an act, but shame attaches to a person."

-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

"We are, all of us, striving constantly to pass those normality exams, to take our raw and boundless selves and squash them into the forms of neater and nicer girls."

-Joanne Limburg, Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism

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16. Back to Nature: How to love life - and save it

By: Chris Packham

4.20

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

One thing has become clear this year - we need nature more than ever. And it needs us too. From … read more

Similar categories in Chris Packham's Back to Nature: How to love life - and save it book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Materinska knjižica by Katja Gorečan

17. Materinska knjižica

By: Katja Gorečan

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Materinska knjižica je poetični roman, ki se v celoti posveča spontanemu splavu v prvem trimesečju.… read more

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18. Alma M. Karlin: svetovljanka iz province: življenjepis v stripu

By: Marijan Pušavec

3.96

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Jesen prinaša plodove trdega dela: tako v naravi kot v umetnosti. Marijan Pušavec, najbolj izkušeni… read more

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19. On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet

By: Simon Barnes

3.99

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

How the rewilding of eight acres of Norfolk marshland inspired a family and brought nature even clo… read more

Similar categories in Simon Barnes's On the Marsh: A Year Surrounded by Wildness and Wet book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • memoir
  • natural history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
Cover of Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You by Nick Hayes

20. Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You

By: Nick Hayes

4.35

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

In May 2022, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences released a paper that measured fourteen European… read more

Similar categories in Nick Hayes's Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You book and Dara McAnulty's Diary of a Young Naturalist

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • natural history
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21. Tik je šel v gozd po drva

By: Ram Cunta

4.48

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

Otroški strip Tik je šel v gozd po drva, ki nikakor ni namenjen zgolj otrokom, je prvo sodelovanje … read more

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6 must-read audiobook books like Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

Transform Your Habits

Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Landlines

Raynor Winn

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Rainforests of Britain

Guy Shrubsole

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways To Make Nature More Visible

Simon Barnes

3.92

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19 Best nonfiction books like Letters to My Weird Sisters: On Autism and Feminism by Joanne Limburg

Transform Your Habits

Aspergirls

Rudy Simone

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Strong Female Character

Fern Brady

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Untypical: How the World Isn’t Built for Autistic People and What We Should All Do About it

Pete Wharmby

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit

Bianca Toeps

4.05

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