Environment & Nature bestsellers

Braiding Sweetgrass

Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

“One of my all time favorite audiobooks, narrated in the author’s meditative voice. This book feels like walking through a field on a perfectly warm day. The balance of science and culture is perfect. Read more

The Serviceberry

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

“SUCH a beautiful short read. A comforting one, but also a call to action. This book genuinely made me believe the world is going to be okay, and we'll be okay, and I'll be okay. Indigenous scientist and author Robin Wall Kimmerer harvest berries and ruminates over gifts from nature, as well as our current global crisis. Robin detaches from the... Read more

Raising Hare

A Memoir

By: Chloe Dalton
Narrated by: Louise Brealey
Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

“This is a marvelous book. Due to COVID, the author was forced from her busy job in London to her home in the English countryside. She discovers a baby hare - a leveret in a roadway. Unlike rabbit babies who are taught to flee, leverets are taught not to move until their mother returns. At first, she leaves the leveret, but she checks on it later... Read more

Why Fish Don't Exist

A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

By: Lulu Miller
Narrated by: Lulu Miller
Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

“I've followed Lulu Miller's audio stories on public radio for years and I found Why Fish Don't Exist absolutely absorbing. Part memoir, part scientific deep dive into the life of David Starr Jordan (a taxonomist who discovered one-fifth of the fish known to humans), Why Fish Don't Exist examines order and chaos in the world with humor and deep... Read more

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

By: Edward Dolnick
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

“A look at how the discovery of and theories surrounding dinosaurs pitted science and religion (Christianity specifically) against each other during the Victorian era. The fascinating stories of a cast of colorful characters including geologists, fossil hunters, and clergymen are woven together beautifully by historian Edward Dolnick. As well as... Read more

On Animals

By: Susan Orlean
Narrated by: Susan Orlean
Length: 10 hours

“I really enjoy Susan Orleans' writing, but I REALLY love listening to her. On Animals is a lovely collection of essays on animals. Ruminations on chickens (hers), mules, pandas, dogs and more get the wonderful "Orlean" treatment. At times funny, some sad, but always with a sense of wonder and surprise. Read more

The Light Eaters

How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger
Narrated by: Zoë Schlanger
Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

“Science journalism at its finest! Schlanger reports to us on the current state of research into plant behavior and intelligence with clarity, curiosity and no small amount of wonder. This book changed how I conceive of plants on an essential level. Read more

The Ministry for the Future

A Novel

By: Kim Stanley Robinson
Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de Ocampo, Gary Bennett, Raphael Corkhill, Barrie Kreinik, Natasha Soudek, Nikki Massoud, Joniece Abbott Pratt, Inés del Castillo & Vikas Adam
Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

“This hearty work of hard science fiction has been the antidote to my climate change despair. As a novel, it is good. As a thought experiment in imagining a near future in which humanity averts complete disaster and begins the transformation into an ecologically humane civilization—it is a masterpiece. Is it possible that we’ll overcome the... Read more

The Comfort of Crows

A Backyard Year

By: Margaret Renkl
Narrated by: Margaret Renkl
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“Listening to this meditation on nature is like sitting down to coffee with the author, who is also the narrator. Embark on a long walk outside with this one, or at least sit near a large window to gaze out while you listen. Read more

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan
Narrated by: Amy Tan & Evan Sibley
Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

“A very sweet read. If you’re a birder in any way, this will make you feel right at home. Same anxieties, same triumphs - it’s a blueprint for fun yet detailed observations. And of course, the beautiful descriptions of Amy Tan and the wonderful drawings from the artist she worked with. Read more

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong
Narrated by: Ed Yong
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong
 
“One of this year’s finest works of narrative... Read more

What If We Get It Right?

Visions of Climate Futures

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacqueline Woodson & Steve Connell
Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

“An excellent book about various aspects of climate change: scientific, social, political. Author Ayana Elizabeth Johnson recorded all of her interviews, so each one is in the interviewee’s own voice. I learned a lot about the work different activists are doing around climate! Johnson also shares actionable advice to help the reader learn what... Read more

Gathering Moss

A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

“Very helpful for the construction of my moss habitat! Read more

Good Soil

The Education of an Accidental Farmhand

By: Jeff Chu
Narrated by: Jeff Chu
Length: 9 hours 11 minutes

A profound meditation on nature, heritage, and belonging, from an accomplished journalist who left New York City for life on a working farm

“I needed this book. I think you need it, too.”—Maggie Smith, New York Times bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful

In his late thirties, Jeff Chu left his job as a magazine writer and found... Read more

Entangled Life

How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

By: Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

“This book does a great job of introducing you to the wonders of fungi. You learn a lot of info but it’s not written in a way that’s too scientific or textbook. The info is told alongside personal stories about the author’s own research journey. This book left me thoroughly amazed! The author Merlin Sheldrake also does a great job as the... Read more

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside

By: Nick Offerman
Narrated by: Nick Offerman
Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

“I enjoyed listening to this book. Nick Offerman’s essays candidly explore his place on this planet, delving into the dichotomy and overlap between experiencing the natural, numinous world and navigating societal consumerism and political chaos. Many people find solace and reset in nature, but we shouldn’t forget our impact. He critically... Read more

The Living Mountain

By: Nan Shepherd
Narrated by: Tilda Swinton, Robert Macfarlane & Jenny Odell
Length: 4 hours 48 minutes

An internationally bestselling classic on the power of the natural world—“part memoir, part field notebook, part lyrical meditation on nature and our relationship with it, evocative of Rachel Carson and Henry Beston and John Muir” (Maria Popova, The New York Times).

Now with a new introduction by Robert Macfarlane and a new afterword by Jenny... Read more

Isaac's Storm

A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History

By: Erik Larson
Narrated by: Richard Davidson
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City

“A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being true.” —The New York Times Book Review

September 8, 1900,... Read more

The Peregrine

By: J. A. Baker
Narrated by: David Attenborough & Dugald Bruce-Lockhart
Length: 8 hours 56 minutes

David Attenborough reads J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing. The nation’s greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads J. A. Baker’s extraordinary classic of British nature writing, The Peregrine. J. A. Baker’s classic of British nature writing was first published in... Read more

CABIN

Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

By: Patrick Hutchison
Narrated by: Patrick Hutchison
Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

“Hutchinson is much funnier than Thoreau, which doesn’t seem like much of a contest. He is also more honest and self effacing. What both men share is their passionate love of nature and for experiences that can only be found away from a busy urban life. This book is about taking risks, learning, and savoring. I loved it. Read more

The Soul of an Octopus

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

By: Sy Montgomery
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes

In this astonishing book from the author of the best selling memoir The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. Read more

Something in the Woods Loves You

By: Jarod K. Anderson
Narrated by: Jarod K. Anderson
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

An inspiring blend of nature writing and memoir that explores nature’s crucial role in our emotional and mental health

Bats can hear shapes, plants can eat light, and bees can dance maps. When his life took him to a painfully dark place, the poet behind The CryptoNaturalist, Jarod K. Anderson, found comfort and redemption in these facts and the... Read more

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

By: Ross Gay
Narrated by: Ross Gay
Length: 1 hour 35 minutes

“Damn, I love Ross Gay. Whether in essay (as in The Book of Delights - phenomenal - or Inciting Joy - currently reading) or in poem (here!), he writes with such a large-hearted, open-armed, joyous, rowdy, occasionally quite dirty in more ways than one, profoundly moved and deeply moving way of looking at the world. Here, the poems plumb the... Read more

Better Living Through Birding

Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper
Narrated by: Christian Cooper
Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video that shocked a nation and into a world of avian adventures, global excursions, and the unexpected lessons you can learn from a life spent looking up.

"Wondrous . . . captivating.”—Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World

Christian Cooper is a self-described... Read more

The Monkey Wrench Gang

By: Edward Abbey
Narrated by: Michael Kramer
Length: 16 hours 41 minutes

Ex-Green Beret George Hayduke has returned from war to find his beloved southwestern desert threatened by industrial development. Joining with Bronx exile and feminist saboteur Bonnie Abzug, wilderness guide and outcast Mormon Seldom Seen Smith, and libertarian billboard torcher Doc Sarvis, M.D., Hayduke is ready to fight the power—taking on the... Read more

The Body Is a Doorway: A Memoir

A Journey Beyond Healing, Hope, and the Human

By: Sophie Strand
Narrated by: Sophie Strand
Length: 9 hours 34 minutes

In this lyrical, radically expansive self-portrait, celebrated poet, author, and lecturer Sophie Strand explores—with searing insight and honesty—the intersecting spaces of her own chronic illness, the complex ecology of a changing world, and the very nature of the stories we tell ourselves.  

At age sixteen Sophie Strand—bright, agile,... Read more

The Hidden Life of Trees

What They Feel, How They Communicate

By: Peter Wohlleben
Narrated by: Mike Grady
Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

“Wow! This book enlightened and truly moved me. I can’t look at a tree without thinking about how amazing they are. It saddens me when they aren’t treated appropriately. This book inspired me to want to learn even more about these incredible beings! Read more

Devotions

The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver
Narrated by: Kimberly Farr
Length: 6 hours 19 minutes

“Reading any collection of beautiful poetry in a short period of time is immersive, dare I say life-altering. Reading Devotions is somehow more intimate than even that. Oliver’s way of viewing the world is so crystal-clear, so inviting. Every poem is like taking a step outside and breathing in a lungful of crisp, clean, cold air. Her way of... Read more

The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan

Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously

By: Liesl Clark & Rebecca Rockefeller
Narrated by: Jayme Mattler
Length: 7 hours 1 minute

In the spirit of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning and The Joy of Less, experience the benefits of buying less and sharing more with this accessible 7-step guide to decluttering, saving money, and creating community from the creators of the Buy Nothing Project.

In their island community, friends Liesl Clark and Rebecca Rockefeller... Read more

Half-Arse Human

How to live better without burning out

By: Leena Norms
Narrated by: Leena Norms
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes

"This is the only self-help book that will tell you to give up. Except . . . you don't need to give up, do you? Because you didn't start.

Me either."

Leena Norms is a half-arser. A shave-one-legger. A rinse-the-plates-and-tell-herself-any-residual-dirt-will-improve-her-immune-system-er. And yet, she is determined to live better, build a career,... Read more

Birding to Change the World

A Memoir

By: Trish O'Kane
Narrated by: Cheryl Smith
Length: 13 hours 54 minutes

“O’Kane is an incredible storyteller. Throughout her life she worked in a women’s prison, reported on the frontlines of the Guatemalan independence movement, and lost everything to Hurricane Katrina. O’Kane weaves this story with empathy and moving descriptions while not hesitating to call out her own privilege. She explores how birding entered... Read more

The Sixth Extinction

By: Elizabeth Kolbert
Narrated by: Anne Twomey
Length: 9 hours 59 minutes

“Though often distressing, this book is eye-opening and vital. Each chapter uses a single species as a case study, and spans natural history, human history, future speculation, and the quotidian (but fascinating) details of animal lives. Very hard to put down! Read more

Fathoms

The World in the Whale

By: Rebecca Giggs
Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
Length: 12 hours 5 minutes

“This isn't a scientists memoir about their life studying whales; it's really just a rambling of facts that held me and my friends in fascination as we listened to it on libro.fm during a road trip. WHALES ARE SO INTERESTING! Rebecca lives in Australia and became obsessed with whales when a young humpback washed up too high on her local beach and... Read more

When the Earth Was Green

Plants, Animals, and Evolution's Greatest Romance

By: Riley Black
Narrated by: Wren Mack
Length: 9 hours 36 minutes

“You'll root for these creatures and their survival. A marvelous narration.”—Booklist

“Paleontologist Riley Black’s vivid writing and Wren Mack’s wonderstruck narration make these vignettes of prehistoric life on Earth fascinating listening.”—AudioFile

Winner, A Friend of Darwin Award, 2024

A gorgeously composed look at the longstanding... Read more

The Ravenmaster

My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London

By: Christopher Skaife
Narrated by: Christopher Skaife
Length: 6 hours 38 minutes

“This wasn't a topic I had ever given much thought, much less studied, but it's a fascinating subject that I'm happy to know more about. You will come out of this book with a healthy new knowledge of the Tower of London, the Yeoman Warders, and bird behavior, and probably a favorite raven, too. This book was so much fun on audio! I love hearing... Read more

Fire Weather

A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant
Narrated by: Alan Carlson
Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

“Fire Weather is a gripping masterpiece of climate change journalism. On its face, it tells the haunting story of the burning of Fort McMurray in British Columbia in 2016, and the frantic evacuation of 80,000 people from the region’s largest tar oil boom city. The deeply personal stories he unearths about the fire are terrifying, but Vaillant... Read more

What an Owl Knows

The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

By: Jennifer Ackerman
Narrated by: Jennifer Ackerman
Length: 9 hours 13 minutes

An instant New York Times bestseller!

A New York Times Notable Book of 2023

Named a Best Book of 2023 by Publishers Weekly

From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination

With their forward gaze and quiet flight, owls... Read more

The Universe in Verse

15 Portals to Wonder through Science & Poetry

By: Maria Popova
Narrated by: Maria Popova & Lili Taylor
Length: 1 hour 28 minutes

“Fifteen short essays on science and nature, intended to inspire a sense of awe and wonder, are each paired with the work of a brilliant poet and a beautiful illustration. Popova's extraordinary collection is a poignant, beautiful little gift book perfect for reminding us of how strange and wild it is that we get to exist and perceive this most... Read more

I Want a Better Catastrophe

Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

By: Andrew Boyd
Narrated by: Chris Bates
Length: 12 hours 17 minutes

“This is one of the best climate books I’ve ever read. It’s less about the science of climate change and more about how we deal emotionally with climate change. Boyd interviews people with different perspectives on climate disaster and how we can process climate grief while still fighting for a better future. Read more

Late Migrations

A Natural History of Love and Loss

By: Margaret Renkl
Narrated by: Joyce Bean
Length: 5 hours 2 minutes

“Margaret Renkl feels the lives and struggles of each creature that enters her yard as keenly as she feels the paths followed by her mother, grandmother, her people. Learning to accept the sometimes harsh, always lush natural world may crack open a window to acceptance of our own losses. In Late Migrations, we welcome new life, mourn its passing,... Read more

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

By: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver, Camille Kingsolver & Steven L. Hopp
Length: 14 hours 34 minutes

“A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are.” — Boston GlobeBarbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they... Read more

Sand Talk

How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

By: Tyson Yunkaporta
Narrated by: Tyson Yunkaporta
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living.As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied to the natural and... Read more

How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)

Poetry

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
Length: 2 hours 12 minutes

“Kingsolver writes poetry that is both accessible and profound. This is the kind of collection you’ll loan out to a friend or relative and never get back. You should probably go ahead and buy two or three all at once! Read more

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

A New History of a Lost World

By: Steve Brusatte
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes

A sweeping and revelatory new history of the age of dinosaurs, from one of our finest young scientists. ""THE ULTIMATE DINOSAUR BIOGRAPHY.""  — Scientific AmericanThe dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs... Read more

This Is Your Mind on Plants

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes

“This book helps illustrate ways in which the proper uses of plants that are designed to help us, are not recognized properly in our society. Read more

Not the End of the World

How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

By: Hannah Ritchie
Narrated by: Hannah Ritchie
Length: 9 hours 26 minutes

This "truly essential" audiobook will transform how you see our biggest environmental problems (Margaret Atwood)—and explains how we can solve them. It’s become common to tell kids that they’re going to die from climate change. We are constantly bombarded by doomsday headlines that tell us the soil won’t be able to support crops, fish will... Read more

All We Can Save

Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Janet Mock, Bahni Turpin & Alfre Woodard
Length: 15 hours 5 minutes

“I wasn’t expecting this collection of essays and poetry from women on the frontlines of the climate movement to be so energizing and symphonic…My favorite contributors were a climate scientist who had to convince her husband that climate change was real, a Black church leader hosting community discussions, a student suffering from climate grief,... Read more

Climate Resilience

How We Keep Each Other Safe, Care for Our Communities, and Fight Back Against Climate Change

By: Kylie Flanagan
Narrated by: Henriette Zoutomou
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

“While most everyone knows that the planet is in crisis, it’s hard to know how to help when the task feels overwhelming. Flanagan’s book, a collection of essays from activists, community organizers, and climate experts, does not allow you to shy away from the responsibility we all owe to the earth and to each other. It does provide a lot of... Read more

Move Like Water

My Story of the Sea

By: Hannah Stowe
Narrated by: Anna Rust
Length: 6 hours 46 minutes

“Move Like Water: My Story of the Sea is a beautiful combination of memoir, folklore, and ocean ecology. The audiobook makes for a soothing, English-accented listen, and Stowe's artwork in the print version will envelope you even more deeply in her seascape. Read more

The Bald Eagle

The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

By: Jack E. Davis
Narrated by: Dan John Miller
Length: 15 hours 2 minutes

“An inspirational journey of an incredible bird that can be a cautionary tale of the environment. Read more