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The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of ScienceAndrea Wulf201536 pts3 wins6 listsKnopfBiographyNatural History & Animals+3
H Is for HawkHelen Macdonald200628 pts2 wins6 listsJonathan CapeMemoir & AutobiographyMemoir & Personal History+2
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of SpaceAdam Higginbotham202524 pts2 wins3 listsSimon & SchusterHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Snow LeopardPeter Matthiessen197824 pts2 wins3 listsPenguin BooksNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals
Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern LandscapeBarry Lopez198620 pts2 wins2 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. IIJanet Browne199618 pts3 wins3 listsUnknown imprintBiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of HistoryStephen Jay Gould198818 pts2 wins3 listsW. W. NortonScienceNatural History & Animals
Border: A Journey to the Edge of EuropeKapka Kassabova201718 pts1 wins3 listsGraywolf PressTravel & PlaceNatural History & Animals+2
Fathoms: The World in the WhaleRebecca Giggs202118 pts1 wins4 listsSimon & SchusterNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early RepublicVictoria Johnson201916 pts0 wins4 listsLiverightBiographyNatural History & Animals+2
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild CoastMarjoleine Kars202114 pts2 wins2 listsThe New PressHistoryTravel, Exploration & Place+2
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All LifeJason Roberts202014 pts2 wins2 listsRandom HouseScienceNatural History & Animals+2
Young Men and FireNorman Maclean199214 pts2 wins2 listsUniversity of Chicago PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake BayWilliam W. Warner197614 pts2 wins2 listsLittle, BrownNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Sea Around UsRachel Carson195014 pts2 wins2 listsOxford University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of BehaviorJonathan Weiner199914 pts1 wins2 listsFaber & FaberScienceNatural History & Animals+2
NaturalistEdward O. Wilson199414 pts1 wins2 listsIsland PressMemoir & AutobiographyScientific Biography+1
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human LandscapeCal Flyn202114 pts1 wins4 listsHarperCollinsNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+1
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship EssexNathaniel Philbrick200012 pts1 wins2 listsPenguin BooksHistoryNatural History & Animals+1
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ExtinctionsDavid Quammen199612 pts2 wins3 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand CanyonKevin Fedarko202510 pts1 wins1 listsScribnerNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' WarLyndal Roper202510 pts1 wins1 listsBasic BooksHistoryNatural History & Animals
Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British EmpireTom Zoellner202010 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryNatural History & Animals
Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the SouthJack Temple Kirby200610 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
Electric Universe: How Electricity Switched on the Modern WorldDavid Bodanis200310 pts1 wins1 listsCrownScienceScience & Discovery+3
The Ingenuity GapThomas Homer-Dixon200010 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksTechnologyNatural History & Animals+3
Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human DomesticationJohn A. Livingston199410 pts1 wins1 listsKey Porter BooksSociety & CultureTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
The Consumer’s Good Chemical GuideJohn Emsley199410 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressScienceDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
The Rise and Fall of the Third ChimpanzeeJared Diamond199110 pts1 wins1 listsVintage BooksScienceNatural History & Animals+2
The AntsBert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson199010 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressScienceEnvironment, Conservation & Pollution+1
China: Alive in the Bitter SeaFox Butterfield198210 pts1 wins1 listsBantam BooksHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American PoetsHelen Vendler198010 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressArts & CriticismTravel, Exploration & Place+2
On Human NatureEdward O. Wilson197810 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressScienceNatural History & Animals
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate ShawTheodore Rosengarten197410 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyNatural History & Animals+1
Pilgrim at Tinker CreekAnnie Dillard197410 pts1 wins1 listsHarper's Magazine PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+1
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey RelationsGeorge B. Schaller197210 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressScienceNatural History & Animals
Wandering through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey through the North American WinterEdwin Way Teale196510 pts1 wins1 listsDodd, Mead & CompanyNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+1
Who Walk AlonePerry Burgess194010 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintMedicine & Public HealthNatural History & Animals+1
Bee Time: Lessons from the HiveMark L. Winston201510 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceEssays & Cultural Criticism+3
Mapping the DeepRobert Kunzig200110 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We AreRebecca Boyle202410 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintScienceNatural History & Animals+3
The Last Whole Earth CatalogueStewart Brand197210 pts1 wins1 listsUnknown imprintSociety & CultureTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on EarthBen Rawlence202210 pts1 wins4 listsSt. Martin's PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
The Good SoldiersDavid Finkel20098 pts2 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxWar & MilitaryBlack History & Culture+3
The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf CoastDouglas Brinkley20068 pts1 wins2 listsWilliam MorrowHistoryOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The WildEllen Meloy20058 pts1 wins2 listsPantheonNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural HistoryRobert Darnton19848 pts1 wins2 listsBasic BooksHistoryNatural History & Animals+2
Of Wolves and MenBarry Lopez19788 pts1 wins2 listsOpen Road Integrated MediaNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly VirusDavid Quammen20228 pts0 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterMedicine & Public HealthNatural History & Animals+2
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the QuranCarla Power20158 pts0 wins2 listsHenry HoltReligionOceans, Rivers & Water+2
Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Dispatches from the Wonderful World of MathematicsAlex Bellos20108 pts0 wins2 listsBloomsburyScienceTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NatureSteven Pinker20038 pts0 wins2 listsVikingScienceNatural History & Animals
African Calliope: A Journey to the SudanEdward Hoagland19798 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of LifeDaniel C. Dennett19958 pts0 wins2 listsSimon & SchusterScienceNatural History & Animals+1
Beasts of the Field: A Narrative History of California Farm Workers, 1769-1913Richard Steven Street20046 pts1 wins2 listsUnknown imprintHistoryLabor, Work & Organizing+2
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about OurselvesFrans de Waal20196 pts1 wins2 listsW. W. NortonScienceScience & Discovery+3
Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human EvolutionCat Bohannon20236 pts0 wins2 listsKnopfScienceScience & Discovery+3
Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory ExtinctionDavid George Haskell20226 pts0 wins2 listsVikingNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+2
Wildland: The Making of America's FuryEvan Osnos20216 pts0 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and GirouxSociety & CultureNatural History & Animals+1
The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in NatureDavid G. Haskell20136 pts0 wins2 listsVikingNature & EnvironmentTravel, Exploration & Place+2
The Old Ways: A Journey on FootRobert Macfarlane20126 pts0 wins2 listsHamish HamiltonTravel & PlaceNatural History & Animals+1
A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea CoastDorthe Nors20226 pts0 wins2 listsUnknown imprintMemoir & AutobiographyTravel, Exploration & Place+3
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and ShipwreckSophie Elmhirst20256 pts0 wins2 listsRiverhead BooksMemoir & AutobiographyOceans, Rivers & Water+2
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on EarthZoë Schlanger20246 pts0 wins2 listsHarperCollinsScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+3
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creatures in the Natural WorldPatrik Svensson20206 pts0 wins2 listsEccoScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fel- low CreaturesVirginia Morell20136 pts0 wins2 listsCrownScienceScience & Discovery+2
Nature's Greatest Success: How Plants Evolved to Exploit HumanityRobert N. Spengler III20254 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World's First National ParkRandall K. Wilson20244 pts1 wins1 listsCatapultHistoryNatural History & Animals+3
Father Time: A Natural History of Men and BabiesSarah Blaffer Hrdy20244 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceFamily, Childhood & Adoption+2
The Five-Million-Year Odyssey: The Human Journey from Ape to AgriculturePeter Bellwood20244 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Blight: Fungi and the Coming PandemicEmily Monosson20234 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Milk and Honey: Technologies of Plenty in the Making of a Holy LandTamar Novick20234 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressTechnologyTechnology, Computing & Ai+3
Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel WallaceJames T. Costa20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressBiographyScience & Discovery+3
The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living WorldLixing Sun20234 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
Wonders and Rarities: The Marvelous Book That Traveled the World and Mapped the CosmosTravis Zadeh20234 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressHistoryScience & Discovery+3
The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth's Forest EcosystemsHerman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi,, Jérôme Chave20224 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
What Babies Know: Core Knowledge and CompositionElizabeth S. Spelke20224 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in AmericaDan Flores20224 pts1 wins1 listsW. W. NortonNature & EnvironmentScience & Discovery+3
Fox & I: An Uncommon FriendshipCatherine Raven20214 pts1 wins1 listsSpiegel & GrauMemoir & AutobiographyPrisons & Incarceration+3
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest OwlJonathan Slaght20214 pts1 wins1 listsPicadorNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human HistoryKyle Harper20214 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressHistoryNatural History & Animals+3
When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to BeMartin Williams20214 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World EcologyChris Otter20204 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of Chicago PressHistoryEnergy, Extraction & Resources+3
Introduction to Social NeuroscienceStephanie Cacioppo, John T. Cacioppo20204 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval WestJamie Kreiner20204 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressHistoryBusiness, Capitalism & Corporations+3
River Networks as Ecological Corridors: Species, Populations, PathogensAndrea Rinaldo, Marino Gatto,, Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe20204 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressScienceIndigenous History+3
The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another WorldSarah Stewart Johnson20204 pts1 wins1 listsCrownScienceOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Becoming Human: A Theory of OntogenyMichael Tomasello20194 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressScienceScience & Discovery+3
Book of Beasts: The Bestiary in the Medieval WorldElizabeth Morrison, Larisa Grollemond20194 pts1 wins1 listsGetty PublicationsArts & CriticismNatural History & Animals+3
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They MatterBen Goldfarb20184 pts1 wins1 listsChelsea Green PublishingNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of FascismTiago Saraiva20184 pts1 wins1 listsMIT PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Art and Risk in Ancient Yoruba: Ife History, Power, and Identity, c. 1300Suzanne Preston Blier20174 pts1 wins1 listsCambridge University PressArts & CriticismArt, Music & Performance+3
Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical WorldCorey Ross20174 pts1 wins1 listsOxford University PressNature & EnvironmentOceans, Rivers & Water+3
Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central and South America, A Study in Beauty and DiversityEmmet Gowin20174 pts1 wins1 listsPrinceton University PressNature & EnvironmentArt, Music & Performance+3
A Natural History of Human MoralityMichael Tomasello20164 pts1 wins1 listsHarvard University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
Ecosystems of CaliforniaHarold Mooney annd Erika Zaveleta20164 pts1 wins1 listsUniversity of California PressNature & EnvironmentNatural History & Animals+3
Where Poppies BlowJohn Lewis-Stempel20164 pts1 wins1 listsWeidenfeld & NicolsonWar & MilitaryDisease, Epidemics & Drugs+3
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic JourneyDeborah Cramer20154 pts1 wins1 listsYale University PressNature & EnvironmentDrugs, Addiction & Treatment+3
Ancient Pathways, Ancestral KnowledgeNancy J. Turner20144 pts1 wins1 listsMcGill-Queen's University PressScienceNatural History & Animals+3
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All awards · Topic: Natural History & Animals · Sorted by score · 259 books · filtered