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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.50 — 190,448 ratings — published 2013
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 55,720 ratings — published 2020
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,415 ratings — published 2015
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 57,347 ratings — published 1962
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as nature-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 63,832 ratings — published 2015
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 459,278 ratings — published 1998
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 26 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,593 ratings — published 2001
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.26 — 76,263 ratings — published 2024
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.37 — 23,051 ratings — published 2003
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.46 — 39,278 ratings — published 2022
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,474 ratings — published 2019
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,254 ratings — published 2014
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 209,887 ratings — published 2018
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 494,236 ratings — published 1988
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,321 ratings — published 2020
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 31,314 ratings — published 2015
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,852 ratings — published 1949
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as nature-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,953 ratings — published 2007
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as nature-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 73,313 ratings — published 2016
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as nature-science)
avg rating 3.73 — 85,851 ratings — published 2014
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 436,395 ratings — published 2003
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 18,284 ratings — published 2021
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,282 ratings — published 2003
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 217,231 ratings — published 2017
Other Minds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nature-science)
avg rating 3.88 — 29,763 ratings — published 2016
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 24,059 ratings — published 2010
Cosmos (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 163,901 ratings — published 1980
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nature-science)
avg rating 3.77 — 208,772 ratings — published 1854
The Origin of Species (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 124,708 ratings — published 1859
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,982 ratings — published 1974
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.08 — 15,241 ratings — published 2022
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nature-science)
avg rating 3.84 — 32,130 ratings — published 2021
The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 105,106 ratings — published 2019
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 43,947 ratings — published 2018
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life ― A New York Times Bestselling Science Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 33,733 ratings — published 2016
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 198,121 ratings — published 1976
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 56,324 ratings — published 1968
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,782 ratings — published 2010
The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nature-science)
avg rating 3.92 — 58,084 ratings — published 2010
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,558 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,331,871 ratings — published 2011
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,404 ratings — published 2016
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.42 — 4,344 ratings — published 2023
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.36 — 239,046 ratings — published 2017
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 87,503 ratings — published 2018
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 889,817 ratings — published 2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 118,664 ratings — published 2010
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 212,453 ratings — published 2006
Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 29,984 ratings — published 2008
The Backyard Bird Chronicles (Flexibound)
by (shelved 9 times as nature-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 18,416 ratings — published 2024