Recs if you like Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures...

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!

Niche nonfiction, aka micro-histories!

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When the narrator(s) makes the book even better. For new listeners and audiobook elites, here is a range of different genres and narrators that excel at audio perfection.

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microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

books featured in the cozy video game “tiny bookshop”

Books dedicated to exploring how nature is all around us no matter how we try to fight it! Whether right outside our door, within our microbiomes, or deeper into our cities, nature will find us. After all, we are a part of it, not distinct from it.

WHAT LIES BENEATH US LIES BEFORE US

Books about digging, the ground we walk on and the stories buried underneath our feet. From dinosaurs / paleontology, anthropology, ancient history, archaeology to the soil and geology and all its wonders. Non-fiction only

Nonfiction books that are definitely not about Ötzi the Iceman, Europe's oldest known natural mummy, but which manage to find a relevant way to bring him up anyways.

Inspired by a weird little trend I've been noticing.

Aka Dua Lipa’s reading list. Everyone’s fave popstar on permanent holiday with a massive list of books to read, and she always seems to have incredible recommendations.

I am not part of Service95 or affiliated with Dua Lipa. I am just a fan curating this list based on the @service95bookclub IG account 💋

the title pretty much says it all, fic + nonfic featuring mushrooms and fungus!

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

audiobooks where the narrator is the author! any book goes, no matter the genre. there may be multiple versions of the audiobook, but at least one version has the author as narrator. please suggest more in the comments!

Nonfiction about strange, outlandish, and/or macabre subjects (books that make you more or less go “wtf?!”)

Beautiful books for when your monthly reading roundup needs a little facelift 😉

includes contemporary fiction, scifi, horror, speculative fiction and nonfiction

Don't let the poor zombies starve, feed your brain, make it plump and ripe with knowledge and critical thinking skills. It might also be useful if the zombies never come, who knows. You better be ready.

Nonfiction on a single, weirdly specific topic