Mother Nature's Reading List
Non-fiction for the planet - plants and animals, ecology, biology, climate change and inspiring reads from those trying to save the beautiful world that we live on.






Ocean Love 🌊
Non-fiction books about the ocean and the life within it 💙 From seabirds, whales, sharks and deep sea creatures, all the way to fishing and diving and the ocean as a whole. Perfect as beach reads - or for whenever you have meerweh. These books dive deep - literally. ˙ ✩🫧°🪼˖⋆𓆉°:•.🐠*.•🪸.•:°






Mother Nature: Women Scientists at Work
Books by female ecologists, biologists, naturalists, environmental activists, and science writers from well-researched nonfiction to reflective memoirs.
(Keywords: science, nature, plants, animals, insects, ecology, climate change, biology, ocean, STEM)






marine biology
from rock pools and the shore to lonely bird islands and the depths of the ocean






remembering nature 🌅
Books to reconnect to nature and the fact that we are just a part of it. Both in the most beautiful and terrible ways 💚☀️ 🦋🐾🌿🪴🍀🌺🌻🌈 More non-fiction than fiction






The Wainwright Prize Shortlists 2025
All the adult Nature and Conservation books that made it to The Wainwright Prize shortlists in 2025.






SciFri Book Club
The SciFri Book Club, created by the people who bring you the weekly public radio show Science Friday, is a program to bring people together around all things science reading—anything from sci-fi short stories to nonfiction science books to science articles from various publications to science-y poetry!






Weird Ecological Nonfictions






Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction
Shortlisted books





