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From the deep sea to the backyard feeder, the natural world is full of wonder, and these books capture it beautifully! This list includes both fiction and nonfiction, offering gripping stories, heartfelt memoirs, and fresh ideas about our place in the wild.
Each book is a chance to see nature through new eyes, and every one is available to check out at the library. Pick one up, settle in, and let the natural world work its magic.
To view the entire catalog, click here.
Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
(Fiction)
A novel of breathtaking twists, dizzying beauty, and ferocious love, Wild Dark Shore is about the impossible choices we make to protect the people we love, even as the world around us disappears.
Check AvailabilityRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
(Fiction)
An exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.
Check AvailabilityLand by Maggie O'Farrell
(Fiction)
The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.
Check AvailabilityNorth Woods by Daniel Mason
(Fiction)
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
Check AvailabilityInto the Wild by Jon Krakauer
(Nonfiction)
Krakauer’s page-turning bestseller explores the life and tragic death of Christopher McCandless, a young college graduate who abandoned his privileged life to live off the land in Alaska.
Check AvailabilityThe Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert MacFarlane
(Nonfiction)
From the bestselling authors of The Lost Words comes a dazzling celebration of endangered birds.
Check AvailabilityThe Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
(Nonfiction)
From the bestselling author of Braiding Sweetgrass, this bold and inspiring vision shows how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world.
Check AvailabilityRaising Hare: A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
(Nonfiction)
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.
Check AvailabilityThe Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
(Nonfiction)
With fifty-two original color artworks by the author’s brother, Billy Renkl, The Comfort of Crows is a lovely and deeply moving book from a cherished observer of the natural world.
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