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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 — 55,238 ratings — published 1962
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,743 ratings — published 2014
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.51 — 175,460 ratings — published 2013
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 36,562 ratings — published 1949
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 89,723 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.99 — 29,967 ratings — published 2019
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,784 ratings — published 2014
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,535 ratings — published 2017
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 17,028 ratings — published 2021
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,207 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 — 51,745 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 — 4,841 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 — 29,909 ratings — published 2015
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,039 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 — 210,661 ratings — published 2006
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,477 ratings — published 2007
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,523 ratings — published 2002
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 — 51,184 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 4.41 — 6,507 ratings — published 2020
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 198,391 ratings — published 2018
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 — 59,589 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 — 8,683 ratings — published 1996
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.28 — 11,963 ratings — published 1986
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 — 3,125 ratings — published 2022
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 27,865 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 — 4,371 ratings — published 2017
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,134 ratings — published 1989
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,356 ratings — published 1979
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,069 ratings — published 1951
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,069 ratings — published 2007
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.05 — 113,326 ratings — published 2007
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 459,943 ratings — published 1997
Encounters with the Archdruid (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,696 ratings — published 1971
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,821 ratings — published 1972
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 60,627 ratings — published 2024
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,965 ratings — published 2021
The Diversity of Life (Questions of Science)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,249 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 4.23 — 1,848 ratings — published 2022
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.35 — 717 ratings — published
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,898 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 — 7,337 ratings — published 2020
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,031 ratings — published 2017
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,849 ratings — published 2016
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,580 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 ( (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.77 — 5,209 ratings — published 2014
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,155 ratings — published 2017
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 72,104 ratings — published 2016
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 978 ratings — published 2014
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,905 ratings — published 1854
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-science)
avg rating 3.94 — 74,853 ratings — published 2004
“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










