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Nature & Environment

Award-recognized works classified under nature & environment, with sortable prize results, imprints, and related subjects.

Nature & Environment · Sorted by award activity · Showing 50 of 341 books

341

Books

90

Imprints

19272026

Year range

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Elizabeth Kolbert

2014
2 wins5 listsHenry Holt

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea

Jack E. Davis

2018
2 wins4 listsLiveright

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

1978
2 wins3 listsPenguin Books

Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

John Vaillant

2024
1 wins6 listsKnopf

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

Barry Lopez

1986
2 wins2 listsScribner

The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail

W. Jeffrey Bolster

2012
3 wins3 listsHarvard University Press

Fathoms: The World in the Whale

Rebecca Giggs

2021
1 wins4 listsSimon & Schuster

The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years

Sunil Amrith

2024
2 wins3 listsW. W. Norton

Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay

William W. Warner

1976
2 wins2 listsLittle, Brown

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed

John Vaillant

2004
2 wins2 listsKnopf Canada

The Sea Around Us

Rachel Carson

1950
2 wins2 listsOxford University Press

Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean

1992
2 wins2 listsUniversity of Chicago Press

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

Cal Flyn

2021
1 wins4 listsHarperCollins

So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Events

René Dubos

1968
1 wins2 listsScribner

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

David Quammen

-
2 wins3 listsScribner

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Jordan Thomas

2025
0 wins3 listsUniversity of North Carolina Press

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth

Ben Rawlence

2022
1 wins4 listsSt. Martin's Press

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

2013
1 wins3 listsSimon & Schuster

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

2025
1 wins1 listsScribner

Caribou and the Barren-Lands

George Calef

-
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?

Alan Weisman

2013
1 wins1 listsLittle, Brown

Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s

Donald Worster

1979
1 wins1 listsOxford University Press

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

2022
1 wins1 listsBack Bay Books

How to Survive a Bear Attack

Claire Cameron

-
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

Leviathan or, The Whale

Philip Hoare

2009
1 wins1 listsFourth Estate

Mapping the Deep

Robert Kunzig

-
1 wins1 listsW. W. Norton

Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South

Jack Temple Kirby

2006
1 wins1 listsUniversity of North Carolina Press

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

1974
1 wins1 listsHarper's Magazine Press

Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

Mark Lynas

2008
1 wins1 listsFourth Estate

The Blue Whale

George L. Small

1971
1 wins1 listsColumbia University Press

The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change

Charles Wohlforth

2004
1 wins1 listsNorth Point Press

The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer

David Fairchild

1938
1 wins1 listsBanyan Books

Wandering through Winter: A Naturalist's Record of a 20,000-Mile Journey through the North American Winter

Edwin Way Teale

1965
1 wins1 listsDodd, Mead & Company

Water

Marq de Villiers

-
1 wins1 listsNot yet sourced

Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Robert Macfarlane

2019
1 wins3 listsW. W. Norton

Desert: The American Southwest

Ruth Kirk, Louis Kirk

-
1 wins2 listsNot yet sourced

Eating Stone: Imagination And The Loss Of The Wild

Ellen Meloy

2005
1 wins2 listsPantheon

Of Wolves and Men

Barry Lopez

1978
1 wins2 listsOpen Road Integrated Media

Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains

Lucas Bessire

2021
1 wins2 listsPrinceton University Press

The Control of Nature

John McPhee

1989
1 wins2 listsFarrar, Straus and Giroux

Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World

Emma Marris

2021
1 wins2 listsBloomsbury

African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan

Edward Hoagland

1979
0 wins2 listsNot yet sourced

The Diversity of Life

Edward O. Wilson

-
0 wins2 listsW. W. Norton

English Pastoral: An Inheritance

James Rebanks

2020
1 wins2 listsPenguin Books

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait

Bathsheba Demuth

2019
1 wins2 listsW. W. Norton

Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds

Trevor Herriot

-
0 wins2 listsNot yet sourced

Landmarks

Robert Macfarlane

2015
0 wins2 listsHamish Hamilton

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

Kate Brown

2019
0 wins2 listsW. W. Norton

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

David George Haskell

2022
0 wins2 listsViking

The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature

David G. Haskell

2013
0 wins2 listsViking

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