Recs if you like Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law...

microhistories: “how do you even know that??”

by anaconda
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Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous ItemsSalt: A World History

Nonfiction that's actually fun to read

by Irenelikesbooks
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Cultish: The Language of FanaticismThe Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

So you think you hate nonfiction

by Smilepal
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern IrelandThe Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

A Planet Worth Knowing

by CaitlinByHerShelf
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Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of ConsciousnessAre We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

"This Podcast Will Kill You" Book Club

by The_BookishBug
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease CollideThe Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Brain Food (from kale to popcorn)

by SheReadsAtMidnight
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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and DisasterFeeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

Weirdly Specific Nonfiction

by eol.eol
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The Limits of Genius: The Surprising Stupidity of the World's Greatest MindsThe Hidden Tools of Comedy: The Serious Business of Being Funny

New Perspectives

by AnxiousNerd
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Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a BackboneEntangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Here…Educate yourself!

by BookishWolfe
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Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAIThe Wise Hours: A Journey into the Wild and Secret World of Owls

Must-read nature & environment books

by breezey7
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing PredatorsThe Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

TPWKY Book Club

by spookygay
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American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental JusticeA Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery

Reading Specifically, and Deeply

by UtopiaBunny
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Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of IndentureDecolonize Drag (Decolonize That!)

- nonfiction & nature -

by biancafromsrilanka
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The Forest Revealed: An Illustrated YearForest Walking: Discovering the Trees and Woodlands of North America

oddly specific non-fiction

by girlsiread
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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural HistoryFuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Journalists as Authors

by trinketgoblin
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The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on EarthDeep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves

Non-boring non-fiction

by Rochelle
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Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My CountryNuclear War: A Scenario

Climate Justice Reading List

by bvellichor
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This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The ClimateThe Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Books for if you love Halsin of BG3 or bears

by Maggicgem
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How to Survive a Bear Attack: A MemoirDown From The Mountain: The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear

There Is No Planet B

by BookishWolfe
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The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing TreasureVanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Gift Books

by treatyoshelf611
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and MurderTurtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America