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Nature Writing Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.50 — 182,032 ratings — published 2013
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.74 — 83,660 ratings — published 2014
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,428 ratings — published 1974
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,729 ratings — published 1977
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,619 ratings — published 1854
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,156 ratings — published 1949
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 21,812 ratings — published 2019
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 95 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,011 ratings — published 2015
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,464 ratings — published 1968
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.12 — 11,857 ratings — published 2012
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,985 ratings — published 2003
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,190 ratings — published 1962
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,801 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,419 ratings — published 2016
Landmarks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,562 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.32 — 53,551 ratings — published 2020
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,194 ratings — published 1986
The Wild Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,791 ratings — published 2007
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,163 ratings — published 1967
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 451,894 ratings — published 1998
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 68,161 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 203,364 ratings — published 2018
The Outrun (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 18,467 ratings — published 2015
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,550 ratings — published 2007
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,145 ratings — published 1978
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,396 ratings — published 2014
My First Summer in the Sierra (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,560 ratings — published 1911
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,838 ratings — published 2003
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 61,892 ratings — published 2015
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,209,302 ratings — published 1996
Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,488 ratings — published 1999
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,760 ratings — published 2020
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,489 ratings — published 2015
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 878,604 ratings — published 2012
The Solace of Open Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,643 ratings — published 1984
Sightlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,814 ratings — published 2012
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.30 — 37,019 ratings — published 2025
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 8,408 ratings — published 2020
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,059 ratings — published 1928
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,169 ratings — published 2015
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,910 ratings — published 1991
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,177 ratings — published 2025
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,388 ratings — published 2012
The Salt Path (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 105,525 ratings — published 2018
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.48 — 6,741 ratings — published 2017
A Country Year: Living the Questions – A Woman's Memoir of Solitude, Bees, and Healing on an Ozarks Farm (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,363 ratings — published 1983
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,717,241 ratings — published 2018
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 22,901 ratings — published 2010
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,986 ratings — published 2016
Findings (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,806 ratings — published 2005
“The world can be wild. So I draw windows into gentler corners.”
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“Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness.”
― The Poacher's Son
― The Poacher's Son
