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Ecology Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 437 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.51 — 177,119 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 55,470 ratings — published 1962
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 264 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 89,606 ratings — published 2015
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 239 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 52,225 ratings — published 2020
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,724 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,004 ratings — published 2014
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,287 ratings — published 2003
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 149 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.27 — 62,700 ratings — published 2024
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.11 — 199,528 ratings — published 2018
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,839 ratings — published 2014
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,149 ratings — published 2021
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,293 ratings — published 2015
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,529 ratings — published 2007
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,046 ratings — published 2015
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.19 — 210,874 ratings — published 2006
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,979 ratings — published 2004
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,039 ratings — published 2019
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.77 — 205,349 ratings — published 1854
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 77 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.06 — 59,705 ratings — published 2001
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,508 ratings — published 2013
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,048 ratings — published 1983
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,470 ratings — published 1996
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,645,513 ratings — published 1965
Wilding (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.44 — 9,611 ratings — published 2018
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.46 — 36,488 ratings — published 2022
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 64 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,252 ratings — published 1992
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,578 ratings — published 2018
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,356 ratings — published 2012
The One-Straw Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 9,240 ratings — published 1975
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,692 ratings — published 1996
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,602 ratings — published 2024
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.42 — 3,893 ratings — published 2023
The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things ― Stories from Science and Observation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,339 ratings — published 2017
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,236 ratings — published 1990
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 54,922 ratings — published 1968
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 54 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,887 ratings — published 2016
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,596 ratings — published 2017
The Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,338 ratings — published 2021
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.37 — 6,942 ratings — published 2019
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,114 ratings — published 1974
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 9,352 ratings — published 2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.23 — 21,414 ratings — published 2019
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,390 ratings — published 1997
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,362 ratings — published 1979
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,359 ratings — published 2021
How to Blow Up a Pipeline (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 8,814 ratings — published 2021
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.50 — 34,859 ratings — published 2020
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,138 ratings — published 1989
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,773 ratings — published 1977
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ecology)
avg rating 4.18 — 868 ratings — published 1982
“[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.”
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
― Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit
“A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world is also the word for forest.”
― The Word for World Is Forest
― The Word for World Is Forest












