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Ecology, Biology, Nature💚

by violet.booklover

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

Seaweed Collectors Handbook

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

The Story of Birds: A New History from Their Dinosaur Origins to the Present

Ecofeminism: Feminist Intersections with Other Animals and the Earth

Seaweed Collectors Handbook

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World

Something in the water🌊🦞🪼🪸

by violet.booklover

Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.

Bird Anatomy: The Curious Lives of the World's Feathered Creatures

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life

Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality

There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities

Bird Anatomy: The Curious Lives of the World's Feathered Creatures

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life

human inquiry into nature

Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life

What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

Becoming Earth: A Journey Through the Hidden Wonders that Bring Our Planet to Life

What a Plant Knows: A Field Guide to the Senses

Motion in the Ocean

by Ajthecosmonaut

just ocean nonfiction except I very clearly have an intense interest in sharks (I contain multitudes)

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

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark

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

Sing Like Fish: How Sound Rules Life Under Water

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°:•.🐠*.•🪸.•:°

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

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

Sharks Don't Sink: Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

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

Spying on Whales: The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures

Non-fiction books when you want some ocean whimsy

by sandyfishies

Marine biology books for all ages!

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans

Life Between the Tides

The Brilliant Abyss

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans

Niche Non-Fiction

by polarvortexbear

Microhistory and PopSci books to find your newest hyperfixation.

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

Spineless: The Science of Jellyfish and the Art of Growing a Backbone

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Venomous: How Earth's Deadliest Creatures Mastered Biochemistry

We must rewild the world

These are books I’ve read about nature and conservation and really enjoyed

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life

Around the World in 80 Plants

The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise

Shark

Around the Ocean in 80 Fish and other Sea Life

Around the World in 80 Plants

I need to be in the sea

Marine bio nonfiction

Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

The World Beneath: The Life and Times of Unknown Sea Creatures and Coral Reefs

Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge

Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea

Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness

Weird Ecological Nonfictions

Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean

Strata: Stories from Deep Time

Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature

Beach Reads

Different genres, vibes, and plenty of mysteries

Normal People

The Thursday Murder Club

A Caribbean Mystery

Death on the Nile

Normal People

The Thursday Murder Club

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