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Ecology Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 432 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.51 — 174,586 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,142 ratings — published 1962
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 262 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.07 — 89,481 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 237 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 51,490 ratings — published 2020
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 183 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,483 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 176 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,616 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,894 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.28 — 59,466 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.11 — 197,736 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,758 ratings — published 2014
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,953 ratings — published 2021
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,439 ratings — published 2007
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,198 ratings — published 2015
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,837 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,597 ratings — published 2006
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,931 ratings — published 2019
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,792 ratings — published 2004
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,672 ratings — published 1854
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,525 ratings — published 2001
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,488 ratings — published 2013
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,634,685 ratings — published 1965
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,449 ratings — published 1996
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,022 ratings — published 1983
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,520 ratings — published 2018
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,245 ratings — published 1992
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.46 — 35,881 ratings — published 2022
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,330 ratings — published 2012
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,474 ratings — published 2018
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,196 ratings — published 1975
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,679 ratings — published 1996
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.43 — 3,791 ratings — published 2023
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,155 ratings — published 1990
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,647 ratings — published 1968
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,277 ratings — published 2017
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 9,152 ratings — published 2024
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,862 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,518 ratings — published 2017
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,272 ratings — published 2021
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,872 ratings — published 2019
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,205 ratings — published 2019
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,185 ratings — published 1997
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,348 ratings — published 1979
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.08 — 29,948 ratings — published 1974
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,655 ratings — published 2021
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,206 ratings — published 2020
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,609 ratings — published 2020
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,215 ratings — published 2021
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,133 ratings — published 1989
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,742 ratings — published 1977
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 864 ratings — published 1982
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