Recs if you like The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World...

A collection of non-fiction books that touch upon the stories of the natural world, and all the people who live among it. (Or, as an astronomer once said: "I love stories, and the story of our universe is the grandest one we have") Always open to suggestions!

Non fiction books for all them nerds who like the natscience Recommendations are welcomed

“The Booker Prize of science writing”

One of the world’s most prestigious science book prizes, awarded by the Royal Society to excellent and accessible works of science nonfiction written for a non-specialist audience — spanning all fields of science or technology.

(winners listed oldest to newest, from 2009)

Popular science that broadens your understanding of the complex world of biology.

Nature, wildlife, outdoors and countryside books. Read at your leisure. Mostly non-fiction with a few fiction.

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!

Sprinkle a little hope on your world view. This list is filled with non fiction books that emanate positivity and will brighten your beliefs. Doom and gloom dominate our media; that serves a good purpose, which is to warn us all, but I ask you this: after the warning, what's next? Here you'll find books that will make you believe that the Earth and its residents are worth saving, and maybe we are not in a hellscape after all. Life is looking UP! The glass is half full!

I have a hard time with conceptual things without understanding why they exist or who decides that they matter. So we're gonna learn those things.