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

“A must-read for everyone in the physical and environmental sciences, and a highly-encouraged read for everyone else. This book is a reminder to act small but dream big, to give more than you take, and to choose hope over cynicism. 'For what good is knowing unless it is coupled with caring? Science can give us knowing, but caring comes from... Read more

The Serviceberry

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

“Read this, listen to this, let it touch your heart, and share it with others. This is the perfect gift - AND the print edition will keep running out of stock this season, so why not try the audiobook, which is narrated by the author. Fans of Braiding Sweetgrass will be satisfied here, and the small, unassuming size will attract a new audience to... Read more

The Well-Gardened Mind

The Restorative Power of Nature

By: Sue Stuart-Smith
Narrated by: Sue Stuart-Smith
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes

“I listened to this on audio (from libro.fm/avidbookshop) and really loved it. I'm a longtime lover of being outdoors, but it wasn't until the pandemic hit that I started growing potted plants on my own in earnest. This book highlights the ways in which gardening, in all its forms, has a demonstrably positive impact on your mind, your body, your... 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 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

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 54 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

The Comfort of Crows

A Backyard Year

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

“Renkl’s writing soothes, entrances and engages me immediately as sentence by sentence she walks through nature’s seasons and the seasons of our lives. If you want to do one lovely thing for yourself, read The Comfort of Crows, and give it as a wonderful gift to someone you care for. 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

“I don’t know how I could ever look at trees the same way again after reading this book. Wohlleben writes with such warmth, sincerity, and enthusiasm, and it makes what would usually be a slow read for me a wonder, transportive. I feel like I live in a different world after finishing this - one with more wonder, mystery, and magic. I was hoping... 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

“This is a book that is going to stay with me for a long time. Miller, motivated by her relationship with her father, and a lifelong search for meaning, closely examines David Starr Jordan, the larger-than-life father of American Ichthyology and founding president of Stanford University. If you ever wondered how fish identification and eugenics... 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

Yoshi's Big Swim

One Turtle's Epic Journey Home

By: Mary Wagley Copp
Narrated by: Emma Faye
Length: 12 minutes

This impressive true story chronicles the life of Yoshi, a loggerhead turtle who was rescued by fishermen and then rehabilitated and cared for by scientists for many years. The scientists adored her, and Yoshi was happy in her aquarium home. But then, many years later, Yoshi let them know that it was time for her to move on. Would Yoshi be safe?... 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

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

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

“Do you keep hearing about all the breakthroughs happening with mushrooms and fungi, and wonder what all the fuss is about? Entangled Life is a wonderful overview of the impact mushrooms and fungi are having on a variety of urgent human endeavors. It's not just our understanding of forest ecology and mycelial networks (the "wood wide web") that... Read more

All Creatures Great and Small

The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor

All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

“The classic memoir of a young veterinarian who arrives in the remote Yorkshire Dales region in a changing era, post-WWI. Beautiful descriptions of farming life, workplace hi-jinx, small village society, and of course lovable, memorable animals. Read by the actor who plays James Herriot in the new adaptation on Masterpiece. I might be imagining... 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

One Million Trees

A True Story

By: Kristen Balouch
Narrated by: Sara Young
Length: 20 minutes

When Kristen Balouch was ten years old, her parents made a surprising announcement: their whole family was going on a trip to plant trees! Kristen, her sisters, and her mom and dad—and their pet, Wonder Dog—flew from their California home to a logging site in British Columbia. There, they joined a crew working to replant the trees that had been... 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

What the Chicken Knows

A New Appreciation of the World's Most Familiar Bird

By: Sy Montgomery
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

“A delightful, quick read that confirms what I have known since becoming a pet owner - animals do have a lot to say and we need to take the time to shut up and listen to them. I have always had a bit of a fear of birds, mostly because I have trouble understanding them and their motivations. But after listening to this audiobook I think it’s time... Read more

Underland

A Deep Time Journey

By: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
Length: 12 hours 3 minutes

“I don’t think there is a square mile of ground on this planet where Robert Macfarlane couldn’t dig up a new, wondrous story. Underland continues the tradition of profound storytelling, reflection, and, quite simply, gorgeous writing we have come to expect from him. Macfarlane’s ventures into the underworlds of our planet, both mythical and... Read more

This Raindrop

Has a Billion Stories to Tell

By: Linda Ragsdale
Narrated by: Simon Vance
Length: 10 minutes

This beautiful tale follows a raindrop’s journey on Earth, from the time of the dinosaurs to the creation of the earliest cities and beyond. It explains how Earth has depended on the same water supply throughout its existence by flowing and falling all around us, fueling and forming much of what we have seen and used for millions of... Read more

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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

“As a bookseller, I often have customers ask me for something soothing - a calm book they can put on before bed or when they're trying to relax. This fits into that category perfectly. Amy lends her novelist eye to documenting her backyard bird dramas in this intimate, journal-like book. Great for anybody that is into nature, birds, art, etc.... 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

The Quickening

Creation and Community at the Ends of the Earth

By: Elizabeth Rush
Narrated by: Helen Laser
Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

“There's something here for everyone here: science, motherhood, group dynamics, language. Very few people want to dive into a 300-page book about climate science but it is a testament to Rush's writing, how fast those 300 pages go by. Mostly, I loved her exploration of language around the exploration of Antarctica. Rush is so smart and so... 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

Soil

The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T Dungy
Narrated by: Camille T Dungy
Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

“Having had the honor of attending one of the release events and getting to listen author herself read, I can confidently say this audiobook comes as a close second. I’ve also read the print edition and enjoy the map and photography. Soil is a magnificent meditation on the interconnections of life all around us, starting from the beautiful and... Read more

Vanishing Treasures

A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

By: Katherine Rundell
Narrated by: Lenny Henry & Katherine Rundell
Length: 3 hours 18 minutes

“Full of fun facts and folklore, this little book packs a punch. The author tells you about the amazing animals we have on this planet, and how we should take care of them. Read more

Life: The First 4 Billion Years

The Story of Life from the Big Bang to the Evolution of Humans

By: Martin Jenkins
Narrated by: Peter Noble
Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

Before humans took their first steps, there were billions of years of vibrant and varied life-forms on Earth. Discover the story of our planet during this time, from the formation of the universe to the first mammals and all the incredible life that flourished in between. Covering ice ages and fossils, the first life in the sea and on land, the... 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

Vesper Flights

By: Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 10 hours 21 minutes

“I wish I could give Vesper Flights twelve stars out of five. In this beautiful, loving, poignant portrait of a nature lover’s world — gosh, what an understatement — Helen MacDonald continues to prove herself a nature-writing powerhouse. Her literary skills make her a modern legend, and Vesper Flights is sure to touch as many hearts, if not more,... Read more

Of Time and Turtles

Mending the World, Shell by Shattered Shell

By: Sy Montgomery
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes

“Some indigenous people believe the earth is a turtle. It's also a totem for unity. Sy Montgomery tenderly invites us to learn more and "slip into turtle time" in one of the best new nature books of the year. Beautifully written and well researched! Read more

The Lord God Made Them All

All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 12 hours 2 minutes

**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series All Creatures Great and Small**

"Nicholas Ralph’s readings of Herriot’s stories are as comforting an experience as the show, and even more immersive." - The Houston Chronicle

Now available in unabridged CD format for the first time, The Lord God Made Them All is the... Read more

All Things Wise and Wonderful

The Warm and Joyful Memoirs of the World's Most Beloved Animal Doctor

All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot
Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph
Length: 16 hours 2 minutes

**This program is read by Nicholas Ralph, star of the PBS Masterpiece series**

"Add in the narration of Nicholas Ralph, and you have a first-rate audio experience. Ralph plays Herriot in the PBS series, but he does not simply bank on his star power. He narrates the stories with empathy and emotion. His skill with voices really sets this work... Read more

The Botany of Desire

A Plant's-Eye View of the World

By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 8 hours 32 minutes

The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America

In 1637, one Dutchman paid as much for a single tulip bulb as the going price of a town house in Amsterdam. Three and a half centuries later, Amsterdam is once again the mecca for... Read more

The Brilliant Abyss

Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, and the Looming Threat That Imperils It

By: Helen Scales
Narrated by: Helen Scales
Length: 8 hours 34 minutes

A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway as revolutionary studies rewrite the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our planet, its topography even more varied and extreme than its landmass counterpart.

Teeming with unsuspected life,... Read more

Landmarks

By: Robert Macfarlane
Narrated by: Roy McMillan
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane, read by Roy McMillan

SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE

From the bestselling author of UNDERLAND, THE OLD WAYS and THE LOST WORDS

'Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and... Read more

Sharks Don't Sink

Adventures of a Rogue Shark Scientist

By: Jasmin Graham
Narrated by: Jasmin Graham
Length: 6 hours 1 minute

“JASMIN GRAHAM IS SO COOL! I went into this book mostly to gain some knowledge about sharks, but I came out of it with a deeper understanding of a black woman's challenging experience in a scientific field, and of course, falling in love with Jasmin Graham. Part memoir, part sharks. And how they intertwine. Don't get me wrong, she will teach you... 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

“An absolute fever dream of a book, truly brings into perspective, how lucky the human race is to still be an existence, given the tendencies of the Victorian people. Also dinosaurs, enough said. Read more

Saving Time

Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock

By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Kristen Sieh
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The visionary author of How to Do Nothing returns to challenge the notion that ‘time is money.’ . . . Expect to feel changed by this radical way of seeing.”—Esquire

“One of the most important books I’ve read in my life.”—Ed Yong, author of An Immense World

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Harper’s Bazaar, Esquire, Chicago... 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

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

Life on Earth

By: David Attenborough
Narrated by: David Attenborough
Length: 12 hours 26 minutes

A new edition of David Attenborough’s groundbreaking Life on Earth. Winner of Best Non-Fiction Audiobook at the New York Radio Awards 2019. Shortlisted for Best Audiobook at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2018. Shortlisted for Futurebook of... Read more

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Learning to Fight in a World on Fire

By: Adreas Malm
Narrated by: Brian Arens
Length: 4 hours 19 minutes

Property will cost us the earth. The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appeals, mass street protests, petition campaigns, and peaceful demonstrations, we are still facing a booming fossil fuel industry, rising seas, rising emission levels, and a rising temperature. With the stakes so high,... 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

Flopping Frogs and Other Real Frog Stories

Highlights Stories

By: Highlights For Children
Narrated by: Highlights For Children
Length: 16 minutes

Frogs! Learn about the unique jump of the Tailed Frogs in the Pacific Northwest. Figure out where the mysterious sound of a thousand bells comes from. Discover the dangerous journey of a wood frog. Get a close look at the tiny famous frogs from the rain forest. Stories by Pamela Brunskill, Barbara Cole, Carole Smith Berney, and Chris Dietel. 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

Becoming Earth

How Our Planet Came to Life

By: Ferris Jabr
Narrated by: Joe Ochman
Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

A vivid account of a major shift in how we understand Earth, from an exceptionally talented new voice. Earth is not simply an inanimate planet on which life evolved, but rather a planet that came to life.

“Glorious . . . full of achingly beautiful passages, mind-bending conceptual twists, and wonderful characters. Jabr reveals how Earth has been... 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

A humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending, protecting, and truly experiencing the outdoors, fueled by three journeys undertaken by actor, humorist, and New York Times bestselling author Nick Offerman

Nick Offerman has always felt a particular affection for the Land of the... Read more

Silent Spring

By: Rachel Carson
Narrated by: Susie Berneis
Length: 10 hours 43 minutes

Conservationist Rachel Carson spent over six years documenting the effects on DDT—a synthetic organic compound used as an insecticide—on numerous communities. Her analysis revealed that such powerful, persistent chemical pesticides have been used without a full understanding of the extent of their potential harm to the whole biota, including the... Read more

Alfie and Me

What Owls Know, What Humans Believe

By: Carl Safina
Narrated by: Carl Safina
Length: 12 hours 19 minutes

When ecologist Carl Safina and his wife, Patricia, took in a near-death baby owl, they expected that, like other wild orphans they'd rescued, she'd be a temporary presence. But Alfie's feathers were not growing correctly, requiring prolonged care. As Alfie grew and gained strength, she became a part of the family, joining a menagerie of dogs and... Read more