80 books
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29 voters
Nature Writing Books
Showing 1-50 of 6,598
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.50 — 185,710 ratings — published 2013
H is for Hawk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.73 — 84,903 ratings — published 2014
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,671 ratings — published 1974
The Living Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,952 ratings — published 1977
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,544 ratings — published 1854
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 101 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,445 ratings — published 1949
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,133 ratings — published 2019
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,074 ratings — published 2015
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,831 ratings — published 1968
The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 11,975 ratings — published 2012
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,453 ratings — published 2003
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,726 ratings — published 1962
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,938 ratings — published 2018
Upstream: Selected Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 26,832 ratings — published 2016
Arctic Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 9,261 ratings — published 1986
Landmarks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,610 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,516 ratings — published 2020
The Wild Places (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,852 ratings — published 2007
The Peregrine (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,275 ratings — published 1967
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 72,027 ratings — published 2024
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 455,007 ratings — published 1998
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.11 — 206,226 ratings — published 2018
The Outrun (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.96 — 18,716 ratings — published 2015
Wildwood: A Journey through Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,564 ratings — published 2007
Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,425 ratings — published 2014
The Snow Leopard (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.06 — 21,356 ratings — published 1978
My First Summer in the Sierra (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,628 ratings — published 1911
Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,909 ratings — published 2003
Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,525 ratings — published 1999
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 41 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,216,563 ratings — published 1996
The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.94 — 62,836 ratings — published 2015
Raising Hare: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.28 — 42,550 ratings — published 2025
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 25,037 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 — 30,820 ratings — published 2015
Sightlines (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,827 ratings — published 2012
The Solace of Open Spaces (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,736 ratings — published 1984
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 883,469 ratings — published 2012
The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,105 ratings — published 1928
Vesper Flights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.08 — 8,461 ratings — published 2020
Is a River Alive? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,069 ratings — published 2025
The Salt Path (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 3.92 — 106,721 ratings — published 2018
The Shepherd's Life: A People's History of the Lake District (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.14 — 16,357 ratings — published 2015
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.19 — 10,971 ratings — published 1991
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,431 ratings — published 2012
The Lost Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.48 — 6,815 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 — 4,414 ratings — published 1983
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.15 — 23,420 ratings — published 2010
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,753,853 ratings — published 2018
The Genius of Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.04 — 14,169 ratings — published 2016
Findings (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as nature-writing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,818 ratings — published 2005
“I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. Then even death, where you're going no matter how you live, cannot you part.”
― Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
― Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Any weather is fair play in high mountain whimsy.”
― Go as a River
― Go as a River












