58 books
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Environmental Science Books
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Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 54,548 ratings — published 1962
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,850 ratings — published 2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.51 — 169,285 ratings — published 2013
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,002 ratings — published 1949
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 88,113 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,715 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,619 ratings — published 2014
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,364 ratings — published 2017
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,043 ratings — published 2021
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 16,589 ratings — published 2021
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 50,160 ratings — published 2020
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,807 ratings — published 2006
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.33 — 29,417 ratings — published 2015
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 20,223 ratings — published 2003
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 209,981 ratings — published 2006
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,277 ratings — published 2007
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 50,749 ratings — published 2021
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.42 — 6,451 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 193,889 ratings — published 2018
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,121 ratings — published 1989
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,240 ratings — published 2001
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,639 ratings — published 1996
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,856 ratings — published 1986
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,483 ratings — published 2002
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,064 ratings — published 2022
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,692 ratings — published 2019
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,345 ratings — published 2017
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,320 ratings — published 1979
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,402 ratings — published 1854
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,996 ratings — published
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,067 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 112,957 ratings — published 2007
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 453,954 ratings — published 1997
Eye of the Albatross: Visions of Hope and Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 505 ratings — published 2002
Encounters with the Archdruid (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,664 ratings — published 1971
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,792 ratings — published 1972
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 50,778 ratings — published 2024
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,861 ratings — published 2021
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 6,228 ratings — published 1992
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,803 ratings — published 2022
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 705 ratings — published
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,637 ratings — published 2022
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,229 ratings — published 2020
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,243,968 ratings — published 2011
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,763 ratings — published 2016
The Secret Life of Plants: A Fascinating Account of the Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Relations Between Plants and Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,306 ratings — published 1973
When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,990 ratings — published 1994
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,567 ratings — published 1997
The Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs: Use Outdoor Clues to Find Your Way, Predict the Weather, Locate Water, Track Animals―and Other Forgotten Skills (Natural Navigation)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,081 ratings — published 2014
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,064 ratings — published 2017
“A thing is right when it tends to promote the integrity, beauty and stability of the biotic community," famed Wisconsin naturalist Aldo Leopold wrote in 1949, which happened to be teh peak of the lamprey invasion. " It is wrong when it tends otherwise.”
― The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
― The Death and Life of the Great Lakes










