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Books like Silent Spring

Loved Silent Spring by Rachel Carson? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from nature & environment, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

10 books · ranked

  1. 1

    The Sixth Extinction

    Elizabeth Kolbert · 2014 · Nature & Environment

    The mass extinction unfolding now, reported from the field; sobering, clear and Pulitzer-winning.

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    Never Cry Wolf

    Farley Mowat · 1963 · Nature & Environment

    Biologist Farley Mowat was dropped into Eskimo lands by the Canadian Government, that was looking for an excuse to eradicate wolves. What he discovered instead was astonishing. The Eskimos were listen

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    Ring of bright water

    Gavin Maxwell · 1960 · Nature & Environment

    A marvellous book about life in a West Highland seaboard cottage with two otters, Mijbil and Edal.

  4. 4

    Watership Down

    Richard Adams · 1972 · Nature & Environment

    Watership Down is the compelling tale of a group of wild rabbits struggling to hold onto their place in the world—soon to be a BBC and Netflix animated miniseries starring James McAvoy, Nicholas Hoult

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    Biogeography

    C. Barry Cox · 1973 · Nature & Environment

    "Biologists searching for a resource that explores all of the exciting changes that have occurred recently in the field will turn to this eighth edition. It offers insight into the multidisciplinary n

  6. 6

    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

    Annie Dillard · 1974 · Nature & Environment

    A year of close, ecstatic attention to a Virginia valley; meditative nature writing of the highest order.

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    Kometen kommer (Kometjakten)

    Tove Jansson · 1946 · Nature & Environment

    A comet is speeding towards Earth and nobody knows what to do! Will it destroy everything and everyone? Moomintroll decides to find out. So, with Sniff, he sets out on an expedition that promises to b

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    Wish You Well

    David Baldacci · 2000 · Nature & Environment

    Precocious 12-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives inthe hectic New York City of 1940 with her family.Then tragedy strikes--and Lou and her younger brother,Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live

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    Baby Einstein

    Julie Aigner-Clark · 2001 · Nature & Environment

    Lush photographs of animals from all over the world introduce children to the wonders of nature and stimulate their interest in the world around them. Baby Noah builds on children's natural curiosity

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    The Worst Journey in the World

    Apsley Cherry-Garrard · 1922 · Nature & Environment

    The Worst Journey in the World is a 1922 memoir by Apsley Cherry-Garrard of Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913. It has earned wide praise for its frank treatmen

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