The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal

Yossi Yovel

Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

Stephen S. Hall

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

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

Merlin Sheldrake

Seaweed Chronicles: A World at the Water’s Edge

Susan Hand Shetterly

Sno: A beautiful natural history of snow and the effects of climate change from the award-winning environmentalist

Sverker Sörlin

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History In The Old South

Michael W. Twitty

Breweries, Politics and Identity: The History Behind Namibia's Beer

Tycho van der Hoog

Metaphors We Live By

George Lakoff

Cuneiform

Irving Finkel

The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice

Trevor Corson

Slippery Beast: A True Crime Natural History, with Eels

Ellen Ruppel Shell

An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets: Writing Systems on the Verge of Vanishing

Tim Brookes

Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

Thomas Halliday

Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern

Jing Tsu

First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human

Jeremy Desilva

The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

Virginia Postrel

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Mark Kurlansky

Salt: A World History

Mark Kurlansky

High on the Hog: A Culinary Journey from Africa to America

Jessica B. Harris

Ten Tomatoes that Changed the World: A History

William Alexander

Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat

Bee Wilson

Eloquence of the Sardine: Extraordinary Encounters Beneath the Sea

Bill François

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

Peter Godfrey-Smith