Environment & Nature audiobooks

Braiding Sweetgrass

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Length: 16 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

As a botanist and professor of plant ecology, Robin Wall Kimmerer has spent a career learning how to ask questions of nature using the tools of science. As a Potawatomi woman, she learned from elders, family, and history that the Potawatomi, as well as a majority of other cultures indigenous to this land, consider plants and animals to be our... Read more

The Serviceberry

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Length: 1 hour 56 minutes

Abridged: No

An Instant New York Times Bestseller

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, a bold and inspiring vision for how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.

As Indigenous scientist and author of Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests... Read more

Raising Hare

By: Chloe Dalton

Narrated by: Louise Brealey

Length: 6 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.

Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet... Read more

Gathering Moss

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Living at the limits of our ordinary perception, mosses are a common but largely unnoticed element of the natural world. Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites listeners to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.



Robin Wall Kimmerer's book is not an identification guide,... Read more

The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

Narrated by: Jennifer Fitzgerald, Fajer Al-Kaisi, Ramon de O...

Length: 20 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. 

The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but... Read more

Better Living Through Birding

By: Christian Cooper

Narrated by: Christian Cooper

Length: 10 hours 25 minutes

Abridged: No

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

What If We Get It Right?

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacque...

Length: 21 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

Our climate future is not yet written. What if we act as if we love the future?

Sometimes the bravest thing we can do while facing an existential crisis is imagine life on the other side. This provocative and joyous book maps an inspiring landscape of possible climate futures.

Through clear-eyed essays and vibrant conversations, infused with data... Read more

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

Narrated by: Amy Tan & Evan Sibley

Length: 6 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club • With a foreword by David Allen Sibley

“Unexpected and spectacular” —Ann Patchett, best-selling author of These Precious Days

"The drawings and essays in this book do a lot more... Read more

Why Fish Don't Exist

By: Lulu Miller

Narrated by: Lulu Miller

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian

A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder.​

“At one point, Miller dives into the... Read more

The Light Eaters

By: Zoë Schlanger

Narrated by: Zoë Schlanger

Length: 10 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Audible Best Nonfiction Listen of 2024TIME’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2024 • A Best Book of the Year: Barnes & Noble and Publishers Weekly • An Amazon Best Nonfiction Book of the Year “A masterpiece of science writing.” –Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass“Mesmerizing, world-expanding, and achingly... Read more

Entangled Life

By: Merlin Sheldrake

Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent... Read more

No New Things

By: Ashlee Piper

Narrated by: Ashlee Piper

Length: 7 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Written and read by award-winning sustainability expert Ashlee Piper comes this witty, no-nonsense guide to regaining control over your time, consumerist impulses, and financial and mental wellness.

For nearly two years, Ashlee Piper challenged herself to buy nothing new. And in the process, she got out of debt, cut clutter, crushed her goals,... Read more

An Immense World

By: Ed Yong

Narrated by: Ed Yong

Length: 14 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

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

Soil

By: Camille T Dungy

Narrated by: Camille T Dungy

Length: 10 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.

In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden... Read more

On Animals

By: Susan Orlean

Narrated by: Susan Orlean

Length: 10 hours

Abridged: No

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“Magnificent.” —The New York Times * “Beguiling, observant, and howlingly funny.” —San Francisco Chronicle * “Spectacular.” —Star Tribune (Minneapolis) * “Full of astonishments.” —The Boston Globe

Susan Orlean—the beloved New Yorker staff writer hailed as “a national treasure” by The Washington Post and the author of the New... Read more

The Hidden Life of Trees

By: Peter Wohlleben

Narrated by: Mike Grady

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings? In The Hidden Life of... Read more

Living Planet

By: David Attenborough

Narrated by: David Attenborough

Length: 11 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough’s seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet. Nowhere on our planet is devoid of life. Plants and animals thrive or survive within every extreme of climate and habitat that it offers. Single... Read more

American Wolf

By: Nate Blakeslee

Narrated by: Mark Bramhall & Nate Blakeslee

Length: 9 hours 12 minutes

Abridged: No

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The enthralling true story of the rise and reign of O-Six, the celebrated Yellowstone wolf, and the people who loved or feared her.
 
Before men ruled the earth, there were wolves. Once abundant in North America, these majestic creatures were hunted to near extinction in the lower 48 states by the 1920s. But in... Read more

Finding the Mother Tree

By: Suzanne Simard

Narrated by: Suzanne Simard

Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery

“Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The... Read more

Where the Deer and the Antelope Play

By: Nick Offerman

Narrated by: Nick Offerman

Length: 11 hours 42 minutes

Abridged: No

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

CABIN

By: Patrick Hutchison

Narrated by: Patrick Hutchison

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

“This is a great audiobook for nature lovers, carpenters, and people who dream of their hobby becoming their day job.”—AudioFile

A memoir of the author's journey from an office job to restoring a cabin in the Pacific Northwest, based on his wildly popular Outside Magazine piece.

Wit’s End isn’t just a state of... Read more

All Creatures Great and Small

By: James Herriot

Narrated by: Nicholas Ralph

Length: 15 hours 22 minutes

Abridged: No

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

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

A tie-in to the PBS Masterpiece series and Christmas special, available on streaming and home video.

All Creatures Great and... Read more

The Art of Frugal Hedonism

By: Annie Raser-Rowland & Adam Grubb

Narrated by: Alice Ansara

Length: 5 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

It sounds too good to be true: you can save money and the world, inoculate yourself against many of the ills of modern life, and enjoy everything more on both the sensual and profound levels. Preposterous!Yet here is a toolkit to help you do just that. A tweak here, a twiddle there; every strategy in The Art of Frugal Hedonism has been designed... Read more

Becoming Earth

By: Ferris Jabr

Narrated by: Joe Ochman

Length: 9 hours 27 minutes

Abridged: No

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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... Read more