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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,365 ratings — published 2014
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,541 ratings — published 1990
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,745 ratings — published 1996
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.22 — 742 ratings — published 2001
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.36 — 438 ratings — published 2021
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.94 — 283 ratings — published 2013
Dodo: A Brief History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.93 — 87 ratings — published 2002
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.09 — 13,486 ratings — published 2021
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 114,477 ratings — published 2020
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,586 ratings — published 2021
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,314 ratings — published 2017
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.26 — 241 ratings — published 2016
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,012 ratings — published 2013
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 457 ratings — published 2000
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,436 ratings — published 2009
Extinct Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.48 — 54 ratings — published 1988
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.46 — 38,179 ratings — published 2022
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,507 ratings — published 2022
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,739 ratings — published 2021
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,027 ratings — published 2021
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.05 — 88 ratings — published
Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.96 — 521 ratings — published 2014
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 380 ratings — published 2014
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,787 ratings — published 2007
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,556 ratings — published 2003
Can We Save the Tiger? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,239 ratings — published 2011
Beasts of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.24 — 10,385 ratings — published 2023
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.15 — 306 ratings — published
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,808 ratings — published 2021
Venomous Lumpsucker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,210 ratings — published 2022
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,312 ratings — published 2022
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,347 ratings — published 2022
The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 187,848 ratings — published 1995
They Came from the Bronx (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 48 ratings — published 2001
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,094 ratings — published 2012
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,549 ratings — published 2013
The Day the World Ended (Extinction, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 265 ratings — published 2011
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.29 — 365 ratings — published 2002
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 983 ratings — published 2009
Who Killed the Great Auk? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.50 — 24 ratings — published 2001
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.52 — 616 ratings — published 2009
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 492 ratings — published 2005
Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.83 — 42 ratings — published 2006
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.65 — 459 ratings — published 2025
Extinction Crisis (Extinction, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,888 ratings — published 2018
The Last Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.39 — 7,246 ratings — published 1826
Thylacine : The Tragic Tale of the Tasmanian Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 194 ratings — published 2003
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.66 — 190 ratings — published 2016
The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.37 — 322 ratings — published
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us – A Bestselling Book on the Natural History of Mammalian Evolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.37 — 8,658 ratings — published 2022
“We should never present flesh as somehow morally distinguishable from dairy. To the extent it is morally wrong to eat flesh, it is as morally wrong — and possibly more morally wrong — to consume dairy”
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“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.”
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