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Jul 9, 2021 · Science fiction and fantasy writers are experts on extrapolating real-world scenarios into fascinating, inspiring, or terrifying visions of possible futures and alternate realities, so it’s no wonder that some of the best sci-fi and fantasy involves nature kicking our butts.
- Jeff Somers
Apr 22, 2021 · Here are 50 nonfiction books about animals, science, nature, that all have to do with learning about the wonders of the natural world, as well as the damages that have been wrought to it. Article continues after advertisement
- Olivia Rutigliano
- To The Bright Edge of The World by Eowyn Ivey
- The Bear by Andrew Krivak
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Circe by Madeline Miller
- Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson
- Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
- The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
I first thought of adding the author’s bestselling novel The Snow Child to this list, but settled on another of Eowyn Ivey’s books, To the Bright Edge of the World. It’s an immersive tale of adventure, love, and survival that transports us back to Alaska in the winter of 1885. War hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedit...
The Bearis a magical, peaceful yet painful book about the last two people left on earth: a father and daughter. The father teaches the girl everything she needs to know to live close to nature – to hunt, finish, build shelter, forage, and find her way by the stars. But when she’s left to find her way back home alone, everything she’s learned is put...
Even before I’d finished reading it, I knew Prodigal Summer had become one of my all-time favourite books. It’s one of the best novels set in nature – and one of the best books about women with a deep knowledge of the natural world, be it identifying trees or mosses, discussing the importance of apex predators, or explaining what safe forestry look...
If you enjoyed reading The Overstory (and are desperate to read more books about trees), try reading Greenwoodnext. This is Michael Christie’s magnificent generational saga that charts a family’s rise and fall and its secrets and inherited crimes, accompanied all the while by one steady presence: trees.
This is Madeline Miller’s stunning retellingof the Greek myth of Circe, daughter of the sun god Helios. After disobeying the gods, Circe is banished to the island of Aiaia to live alone in the middle of nowhere, close to the woods and surrounded by nature. Here, it turns out, she will develop more strength than anyone could’ve imagined.
“To enter Damnation Spring, the debut novel by Ash Davidson, is to encounter all the wonder and terror of a great forest,” writes Ron Charles for The Washington Post. When Colleen Gundersen, a mother and amateur midwife in redwood country, notices an increase in local miscarriages, she believes it’s caused by the pesticides used by the Sanderson Ti...
One of the most popular books in the girl in wild nature genre from the last few years (especially with the upcoming film adaptation and Delia Owens being wanted for questioning in a murder), Where the Crawdads Singis the story of quiet and sensitive Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. Kya knows more about the marsh she calls home than anyone else...
The Great Aloneis the bestselling story of a city girl who’s forced to learn about the land and fend for herself when her abusive father moves the family to Alaska. Leni, our protagonist, is surprised to find not only a place where she can thrive in the wild, but also a person she’d like to share that home with.
In a Reddit thread about grounding books with a female lead that focus on nature, simple living, and beautiful landscapes, user chookity_pokpok shared: “The Wall by Marlen Haushofer is exactly what you’re looking for. A woman surviving off the land in the Austrian Alps on her own. It’s beautiful.” First published in 1963, The Wallnarrates a moving ...
Dec 2, 2019 · Heller based the titular character on his own mother: she’s an artist and private eye in her late 60s who can navigate New York City and national parks with equal aplomb, and has a knack for tracking down missing persons.
- The Overstory – Richard Powers. ‘The best novel ever written about trees, and really, just one of the best novels, period’ Ann Patchett. Eco-fiction at its best.
- Flight Behaviour – Barbara Kingsolver. Flight Behavior takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change. With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
- Greenwood – Michael Christie. It’s 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich vacationers in one of the world’s last remaining forests.
- The Bear – Andrew Krivak. From National Book Award in Fiction finalist Andrew Krivak comes a gorgeous fable of Earth’s last two human inhabitants, and a girl’s journey home.
The Dark Forest (黑暗森林) is a Science Fiction novel and the second in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin. It was first published in 2008 and translated into English by Joel Martinsen in 2015.
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Dec 7, 2020 · From Stephen King to N. K. Jemisin, from Isaac Asimov to J.G. Ballard, whether the protagonists are aliens, humans, dwarves or animals, the underlying world building in any fictional book has its roots in ecology.
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