12 Top nature books like The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

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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…

If you liked the nature plot in The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

1. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Maddow's Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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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 Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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3. Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

By: Siddharth Kara

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The revelatory New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller, shortlisted for the Financial Times… read more

Similar categories in Siddharth Kara's Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Now you understand how people like us work?"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Nothing looks the same after a trip to the Congo. The world back home no longer makes sense. It is difficult to reconcile how it even inhabits the same planet. Neatly arranged mountains of vegetables…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

"Cobalt mining is the slave farm perfected. The cost of labor has been nullified through the degradation of Africans at the bottom of an economic chain that purports to exonerate all participants of a…"

-Siddharth Kara, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

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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 Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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 Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"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

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6. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more

Similar categories in Jake Bittle's The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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8. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

Similar categories in Heather Cox Richardson's Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Nuclear War: A Scenario

By: Annie Jacobsen

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in … read more

Similar categories in Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War: A Scenario book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • science
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The fundamental idea behind this book is to demonstrate, in appalling detail, just how horrifying nuclear war would be."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

"Humans are wired to advance. Humans do whatever it takes. And yet, nuclear war zeros it all out. Nuclear weapons reduce human brilliance and ingenuity, love and desire, empathy and intellect, to ash."

-Annie Jacobsen, Nuclear War: A Scenario

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10. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

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11. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

Similar categories in Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

Similar categories in John Vaillant's Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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13. 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 Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • history
  • health
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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14. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

Similar categories in Susan Casey's The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • nature
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
Cover of What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman

15. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ackerman's What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • nature
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • audiobook
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16. The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial

By: David Lipsky

3.86

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1956, the New York Times prophesied that once global warming really kicked in, we could see parr… read more

Similar categories in David Lipsky's The Parrot and the Igloo: Climate and the Science of Denial book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

17. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Thomas F. Schaller

18. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

Similar categories in Thomas F. Schaller's White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown

By: Adam Welz

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory exploration of climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosyst… read more

Similar categories in Adam Welz's The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America by Abrahm Lustgarten

20. On the Move: The Overheating Earth and the Uprooting of America

By: Abrahm Lustgarten

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Humanity is on the precipice of a great climate migration, and Americans will not be spared. Tens o… read more

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  • nature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains by Clayton Page Aldern

21. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

By: Clayton Page Aldern

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life , to all those who… read more

Similar categories in Clayton Page Aldern's The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains book and Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

  • audiobook
  • ecology
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science

20 Best audiobook books like The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

Transform Your Habits

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

Emily Monosson

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

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

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

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20 must-read audiobook books like The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake Bittle

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

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

Ben Goldfarb

4.45

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

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

Oliver Franklin-Wallis

4.44

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