21 must-read audiobook books like The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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3. 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

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  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science
  • audiobook
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4. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • science
  • ecology
  • biology
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • adult
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
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5. Birding to Change the World: A Memoir

By: Trish O'Kane

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this uplifting memoir, a professor and activist shares what birds can teach us about life, socia… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger

6. Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos

By: Lisa Kaltenegger

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Riveting and timely, a look at the research that is transforming our understanding of the cosmos in… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Kaltenegger's Alien Earths: The New Science of Planet Hunting in the Cosmos book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • adult
  • nature
  • audiobook
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7. Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

By: Jason Roberts

4.25

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of A Sense of the World comes this dramatic, globe-spanning and meticul… read more

Similar categories in Jason Roberts's Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • science
  • biology
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

8. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee

9. Dispersals: On Plants, Borders, and Belonging

By: Jessica J. Lee

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A prize-winning memoirist and nature writer turns to the lives of plants entangled in our human wor… read more

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  • nature
  • science
  • plants
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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10. Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World

By: Craig Foster

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

“ Amphibious Soul is an important book. . . . This book isn't about learning how to be wild but rat… read more

Similar categories in Craig Foster's Amphibious Soul: Finding the Wild in a Tame World book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Silk: A World History by Aarathi Prasad

11. Silk: A World History

By: Aarathi Prasad

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more

Similar categories in Aarathi Prasad's Silk: A World History book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • audiobook
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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12. The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

By: Boyce Upholt

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping history of the Mississippi River―and the centuries of human meddling that have transform… read more

Similar categories in Boyce Upholt's The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • nature
  • science
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz

13. Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind

By: Annalee Newitz

3.99

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A sharp and timely book about the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling Best-… read more

Similar categories in Annalee Newitz's Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life

By: Ferris Jabr

4.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voi… read more

Similar categories in Ferris Jabr's Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • nature
  • science
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

15. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

Similar categories in Elle Reeve's Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics book and Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Mesmerist

By: Caroline Woods

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before hypnotism, there was mesmerism. In 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial cr… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves by Nicola Twilley

17. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

By: Nicola Twilley

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An engaging and far-reaching exploration of refrigeration, tracing its evolution from scientific my… read more

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  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water by Amorina Kingdon

18. Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

By: Amorina Kingdon

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call f… read more

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  • science
  • biology
  • nonfiction
  • science nature
  • adult
  • environment
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore by Evan Friss

19. The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

By: Evan Friss

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An affectionate and engaging history of the American bookstore and its central place in American cu… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry by Austin Frerick

20. Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry

By: Austin Frerick

4.20

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Barons is the story of seven corporate titans, their rise to power, and the consequences for everyo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World by Edward Dolnick

21. Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

By: Edward Dolnick

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading … read more

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  • science
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  • science nature
  • adult
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  • audiobook

6 Top biology books like The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth by Zoë Schlanger

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Cat Bohannon

4.32

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Zoë Schlanger

4.37

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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

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4.25

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Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

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Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

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Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

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When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

4.23

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