Worldbuilder's Book Club 2023 - hosted by quartzen

Flora and Fauna
Choose a book about the plant or animal life of a region or a specific topic of plant or animal life, human interaction with or cultivation of plants or animals, endangered species, and related topics.
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Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

168 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction essays nature informative reflective slow-paced
Plants: Past, Present and Future by Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head

Plants: Past, Present and Future

First Knowledges #5

Zena Cumpston, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Lesley Head

224 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction nature reference challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Otherlands by Thomas Halliday

Otherlands

Thomas Halliday

416 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

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

Merlin Sheldrake

354 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

The Rise and Fall

Steve Brusatte

500 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science adventurous informative medium-paced
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

449 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

240 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction nature religion science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip Connors

Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout

Philip Connors

246 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction memoir nature informative reflective slow-paced
An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature by John Aberth

An Environmental History of the Middle Ages: The Crucible of Nature

John Aberth

344 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history science
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson

Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle

Thor Hanson

352 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced