Recs if you like A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth...
Teach me something new and oddly specific 💬
Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!
Ecology, Biology, Nature💚
Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄
WTF?! (What The nonFiction)
Nonfiction about strange, outlandish, and/or macabre subjects (books that make you more or less go “wtf?!”)
Something in the water🌊🦞🪼🪸
Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.
Nature Nerd 🪴
A list of books for the natural science nerds! Selections include topics on ecology, evolution, environmental science, environmental biology, and the folks who make the science happen!
Polymath Training Challenge, Best Of
Polymath Training Challenge is a non-fiction reading challenge that has been running on a Hungarian book site for the past 11 years. Each year it has 12 categories that participants have to pick their own nonfiction reads for (incl. memoirs and biographies). I have discovered several amazing nonfiction books through this challenge, so I decided to make a list of the best, and most mind-blowing, of them so far.
Ocean Life Through Time
Books covering prehistoric marine life, ocean ecosystems, evolution, and the history of life in the oceans. Includes books that are beginner-friendly as well as books that offer a deeper dive (pun intended) and some niche reads.
