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The Insect Crisis

ByOliver Milman

2022 • 16 Readers • 272 pages • 3.3

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

ByBen Goldfarb

2023 • 18 Readers • 264 pages • 4.5

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

ByDan Egan

2023 • 5 Readers • 228 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in The Anatomy Duology

Anatomy: A Love Story

ByDana Schwartz

2022 • 261 Readers • 3.7

#1 of 2 in All the Stars and Teeth

All the Stars and Teeth

ByAdalyn Grace

2020 • 200 Readers • 373 pages • 3.5

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age

ByKathleen Sheppard

2024 • 17 Readers • 320 pages • 4

All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

ByHayley Campbell

2022 • 101 Readers • 288 pages • 4.2

Darwin Comes to Town

ByMenno Schilthuizen

2018 • 13 Readers • 304 pages • 4

The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats

ByDaniel Stone

2018 • 16 Readers • 397 pages • 3.7

Useful Phrases for Immigrants: Stories

ByMay-lee Chai

2018 • 5 Readers • 146 pages • 4

Under the Black Flag

ByDavid Cordingly

2006 • 38 Readers • 337 pages • 3.5

The Brilliant Abyss

ByHelen Scales

2021 • 21 Readers • 352 pages • 4

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ByAlan Ayckbourn,Banana Yoshimoto

1979 • 27 Readers • 162 pages • 4.3

#1 of 4 in The Chronicles of Osreth

The Goblin Emperor

ByKatherine Addison

2014 • 621 Readers • 512 pages • 4.2

Spying on Whales

ByNick Pyenson

2018 • 25 Readers • 336 pages • 3

Timefulness How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

ByMarcia Bjornerud

2018 • 14 Readers • 224 pages • 4.3

#1 of 2 in How to Be

How to Be a Victorian

ByRuth Goodman

2013 • 37 Readers • 458 pages • 4.3

Bayou Book Thief

ByEllen Byron

2022 • 8 Readers • 304 pages • 5

Vampires of El Norte

ByIsabel Cañas

2023 • 240 Readers • 384 pages • 3.9

Chain Gang All Stars

ByNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

2022 • 428 Readers • 384 pages • 4.1

ByEvan Friss

2024 • 24 Readers • 417 pages

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

ByJonathan Kennedy

2023 • 100 Readers • 304 pages • 3.9

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

ByThomas Halliday

2022 • 2 Readers

Life on the Rocks

ByJuli Berwald

2022 • 8 Readers • 352 pages • 4.5

ByEmily Willingham

2020 • 3 Readers • 338 pages • 4

How to Be a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

BySy Montgomery

2018 • 45 Readers • 219 pages • 3

As Always, Julia

ByJoan Reardon,Avis DeVoto

2010 • 3 Readers • 432 pages • 4

Crying in H Mart

ByMichelle Zauner

2021 • 1,031 Readers • 239 pages • 4.3

Below the Edge of Darkness

ByEdith Widder

2021 • 16 Readers • 352 pages • 4

A General History of the Pyrates

ByDaniel Defoe

1724 • 5 Readers • 733 pages • 3

What It's Like to Be a Dog: And Other Adventures in Animal Neuroscience

ByGregory Berns

2017 • 7 Readers • 320 pages • 3.5

To Catch a Pirate

ByJade Parker

2007 • 5 Readers • 230 pages • 4.5

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions about Dead Bodies

ByCaitlin Doughty

2019 • 171 Readers • 240 pages • 4.2

The Bonobo and the Atheist

ByFrans de Waal,Frans B. M. Waal

2013 • 12 Readers • 289 pages

The Botany of Desire

ByMichael Pollan

2001 • 122 Readers • 304 pages • 4

Your Inner Fish

ByNeil Shubin

2008 • 88 Readers • 229 pages • 3.8

#1 of 4 in The Pirates!

The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

ByGideon Defoe

2004 • 14 Readers • 133 pages • 3.9

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness

ByPeter Godfrey-Smith

2016 • 179 Readers • 272 pages • 3.6

Of Time and Turtles: Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

BySy Montgomery

2023 • 22 Readers • 3.9

Born to Be Hanged

ByKeith Thomson

2022 • 14 Readers • 400 pages • 3.8

Ungovernable: The Victorian Parent's Guide to Raising Flawless Children

ByTherese Oneill

2019 • 4 Readers • 4

Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

BySam Kean

2017 • 26 Readers • 384 pages • 4.3

The Animal Dialogues

ByCraig Childs

2007 • 2 Readers • 325 pages

How To Survive A Plague

ByDavid France

2013 • 27 Readers • 624 pages • 4.7

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

ByLaurah Norton

2023 • 7 Readers • 4.3

Voyage of the Damned

ByFrances White

2024 • 132 Readers • 496 pages • 3.9

ByAvni Doshi

2019 • 58 Readers • 264 pages • 3.3

Explaining Humans

ByCamilla Pang

2020 • 20 Readers • 256 pages • 3.5

The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

ByHenry Gee

2013 • 3 Readers

#1 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

ByIan Mortimer

2008 • 101 Readers • 319 pages • 3.9

The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization

ByNicholas P. Money

2017 • 1 Reader • 225 pages

#1 of 5 in Bloody Jack

Bloody Jack: Ou le récit des Curieuses Aventures de Mary Faber, la Fille Moussaillon

ByL.A. Meyer

2002 • 48 Readers • 300 pages • 4.2

The Republic of Pirates

ByColin Woodard

2007 • 41 Readers • 400 pages • 3.6

ByRosina Harrison

1975 • 1 Reader • 368 pages

#3 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain

ByIan Mortimer

2017 • 1 Reader • 480 pages

The Night Parade

ByJami Nakamura Lin

2023 • 27 Readers

ByBrandon Hobson

2021 • 52 Readers • 288 pages • 3.5

Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism

ByAmanda Montell

2021 • 493 Readers • 272 pages • 3.9

Miss Graham's Cold War Cookbook

ByCelia Rees

2020 • 7 Readers • 512 pages

#1 of 2 in The Darkness Outside Us

The Darkness Outside Us

ByEliot Schrefer

2021 • 176 Readers • 416 pages • 4.1

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

ByWilliam McKeever

2019 • 5 Readers • 3.5

ByClaire Legrand

2018 • 120 Readers • 464 pages • 3.5

The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides

ByAdam Nicolson

2021 • 4 Readers • 384 pages

#1 of 2 in Vera Wong

Vera Wong’s Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

ByJesse Q. Sutanto

2023 • 392 Readers • 368 pages • 4

#1 of 2 in Hundred Kingdoms

To Kill a Kingdom

ByAlexandra Christo

2018 • 346 Readers • 352 pages • 3.6

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The Way to Cook

ByJulia Child

6 Readers • 5

The Trees in My Forest

ByBernd Heinrich

1997 • 4 Readers • 239 pages • 4

#4 of 4 in Time Traveller's Guides

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain

ByIan Mortimer

2021 • 7 Readers

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

ByRobin Wall Kimmerer

2024 • 25 Readers • 4.3

#1 of 1 in Order of Legends

The Principle of Moments

ByEsmie Jikiemi-Pearson

2024 • 56 Readers • 506 pages • 4

The Kosher Guide to Imaginary Animals: The Evil Monkey Dialogues

ByAnn VanderMeer,Jeff VanderMeer

2010 • 1 Reader • 91 pages

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The King at the Edge of the World

ByArthur Phillips

2020 • 3 Readers • 3

The Laws of the Skies

ByGrégoire Courtois,Rhonda Mullins(Translator)

2016 • 70 Readers • 148 pages • 3.4

#1 of 2 in The Hazel Wood

ByMelissa Albert

2018 • 314 Readers • 368 pages • 3.6

The Berry Pickers

ByAmanda Peters

2023 • 103 Readers • 321 pages • 4.1

Red, White & Royal Blue

ByCasey McQuiston

2003 • 1,154 Readers • 432 pages • 4

ByJamie Loftus

2023 • 41 Readers • 320 pages • 4

Bard City Blues

ByNathaniel Webb

2023 • 2 Readers • 356 pages

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ByMonica Murphy, Bill Wasik

7 Readers

#1 of 3 in Adenashire

A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic

ByJ. Penner

2023 • 49 Readers • 313 pages • 4.1

#1 of 2 in A Study in Drowning

A Study in Drowning

ByAva Reid

2023 • 496 Readers • 3.6

ByLuke Barr

2013 • 4 Readers • 320 pages • 4

ByCoco Mellors

2024 • 152 Readers • 304 pages • 4.1

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Kraken: The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid

ByWendy Williams

8 Readers • 3.5

#1 of 1 in Inkheart Trilogy

ByAnthea Bell(Translator),Cornelia Funke

2003 • 457 Readers • 556 pages • 3.8

I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

ByPeter S. Beagle

2024 • 75 Readers • 224 pages • 3.6

How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart

ByFlorentyna Leow

4 Readers • 4.5

ByMieko Kawakami,Sam Bett(Translator),+1 more

2009 • 280 Readers • 192 pages • 3.7

#1 of 2 in Faebound

BySaara El-Arifi

2024 • 225 Readers • 397 pages • 3.5

4 24 Hours in Ancient History

24 Hours in Ancient China: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There

ByYijie Zhuang

2020 • 2 Readers

8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

ByMirinae Lee

2023 • 12 Readers • 270 pages • 3.8

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Salty: Lessons on Eating, Drinking, and Living from Revolutionary Women

ByAlissa Wilkinson

4 Readers • 3

The Secret Life of Lobsters

ByTrevor Corson

2004 • 15 Readers • 320 pages • 4

ByJulia Armfield

2024 • 60 Readers • 3.3

A Wolf Called Romeo

ByNick Jans

2014 • 7 Readers • 288 pages

ByNicola Twilley

2024 • 6 Readers • 401 pages

Fathoms: The World in the Whale

ByRebecca Giggs

2020 • 18 Readers • 352 pages • 3.5

Book and Dagger

ByElyse Graham

2024 • 5 Readers • 376 pages • 4

ByNatsuki Kizu,Junko Goda(Translator)

2014 • 35 Readers • 202 pages • 4.2

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Pink Heart Jam, Vol. 1

ByShikke

1 Reader