2026 Reading Challenge
Rebecca Giggs

Rebecca Giggs’s Followers (63)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Rebecca Giggs


Born
Perth, Australia
Website

Twitter
rebeccagiggs


Rebecca writes about how people feel toward animals in a time of ecological crisis and technological change.

Her debut nonfiction book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale, is out in 2020 with Simon & Schuster (US), and Scribe (Aus/UK).

Rebecca's essays and articles have appeared in Best Australian Science Writing and Best Australian Essays, as well as in The Atlantic, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, and Griffith Review. Her topics span jellyfish swarms, how sea-turtles fare in heatwaves, the history of leeches as weather prediction devices, and whether cows have friends.

The unceded, sovereign lands Rebecca principally writes on, in Australia, are within the Whadjuk region of Noongar country — land that is, and always was, Aboriginal. ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.86 · 2,314 ratings · 467 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors
Fathoms: The World in the W...
3.88 avg rating — 2,005 ratings — published 2020 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
West: Animalia
by
3.68 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Fire Flood and Plague: Aust...
by
3.78 avg rating — 104 ratings — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Best Australian Essays ...
by
3.80 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Best Australian Essays ...
by
3.68 avg rating — 41 ratings — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Best of the Lifted Brow...
by
3.45 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2013
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Performance Poets
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Visitors / The Nocturnals (...
by
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
More books by Rebecca Giggs…
Quotes by Rebecca Giggs  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“some whales more polluted than their environment.”
― Rebecca Giggs, Fathoms: The World in the Whale
0 likes
Like

“In this way, the past is as unevenly distributed as the future.”
― Rebecca Giggs, Fathoms: The World in the Whale
0 likes
Like

“how regular human life seeped into the habitus of wildlife, and how wildlife returned back to us, the evidence of our obliviousness.”
― Rebecca Giggs, Fathoms: The World in the Whale
0 likes
Like

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. * Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD! 3482 340 Nov 30, 2020 09:00PM  
Reading with Style: This topic has been closed to new comments. FA 21 10.3 Back to School 58 43 Nov 28, 2021 06:35PM  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. * Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD 3029 298 Nov 30, 2021 09:01PM  
Reading with Style: This topic has been closed to new comments. FA 21 Completed Tasks 1051 73 Nov 30, 2021 09:01PM  
Fanatieke Nederla...: This topic has been closed to new comments. * Voltooide opdrachten 2618 337 Dec 29, 2021 05:04AM  
Pick-a-Shelf: Moving Mountain - 2021 Ed 63 138 Jan 16, 2022 02:37PM  
Aussie Readers: **Winter Challenge - 1st June 2022-31st August 2022** 244 185 Aug 31, 2022 07:18PM  
All About Books: This topic has been closed to new comments. October/November 2022 (Extended) Readathon 54 51 Nov 18, 2022 02:26PM  
Around the Year i...: Revised plan: LeahS 3 24 Aug 12, 2023 03:53AM  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Rebecca to Goodreads.