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Natural History Books
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,151 ratings — published 2014
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 158 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 28,988 ratings — published 2015
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 152 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 39,197 ratings — published 2018
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 86,847 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.33 — 48,737 ratings — published 2020
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 120,904 ratings — published 1859
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.51 — 164,082 ratings — published 2013
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 35,571 ratings — published 1949
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 79,622 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.38 — 19,577 ratings — published 2003
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,543 ratings — published 2019
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,600 ratings — published 1996
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 416,340 ratings — published 2003
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 10,191 ratings — published 1989
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,425 ratings — published 2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 84 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.47 — 33,714 ratings — published 2022
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 58,962 ratings — published 2001
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,390 ratings — published 2022
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 28,391 ratings — published 2008
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,218 ratings — published 2016
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 58,260 ratings — published 2015
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 27,217 ratings — published 2016
Voyage of the Beagle (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,329 ratings — published 1839
My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 62,546 ratings — published 1956
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,224,427 ratings — published 2011
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,346 ratings — published 2016
Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,993 ratings — published 1979
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 11,195 ratings — published 2012
Mind of the Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,150 ratings — published 1994
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.45 — 9,186 ratings — published 2018
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,262 ratings — published 2012
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 28,545 ratings — published 2004
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 34,248 ratings — published 2018
Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,587 ratings — published 1977
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.13 — 6,888 ratings — published 1980
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,685 ratings — published 1968
Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,369 ratings — published 2003
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,893 ratings — published 1986
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 53,989 ratings — published 1962
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 9,851 ratings — published 1994
Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,147 ratings — published 1991
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,481 ratings — published 2007
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,481 ratings — published 2008
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 24,703 ratings — published 1997
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live & Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 2,049 ratings — published 2005
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,129 ratings — published 2020
Annals of the Former World (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,310 ratings — published 1998
The Wild Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,516 ratings — published 2007
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as natural-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 20,072 ratings — published 1978
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as natural-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 21,640 ratings — published 2003
“We often express horror at animals that pursue and kill other animals, but such a response demonstrates a misunderstanding of our own evolutionary history. We have been a wildly successful speciesin part because of our predatory skills.”
― Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
― Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
“In terms of size, mammals are an anomaly, as the vast majority of the world's existing species are snail-sized or smaller. It's almost as if, regardless of your kingdom, the smaller your size & the earlier your place on the tree of life, the more critical is your niche on Earth: snails & worms create soil, & blue-green algae create oxygen; mammals seem comparatively dispensable, the result of the random path of evolution over a luxurious amount of time.”
― The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
― The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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