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
View audiobookThe Serviceberry
By: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Narrated by: Robin Wall Kimmerer
Length: 1 hour 56 minutes
Abridged: No
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 serviceberries alongside the birds, she... Read more
What If We Get It Right?
By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Narrated by: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Ayisha Siddiqa, Jacque...
Length: 21 hours 54 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
Entangled Life
By: Merlin Sheldrake
Narrated by: Merlin Sheldrake
Length: 9 hours 32 minutes
Abridged: No
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 environmental problems.
“Grand and dizzying in... 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
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
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 Comfort of Crows
By: Margaret Renkl
Narrated by: Margaret Renkl
Length: 7 hours 46 minutes
Abridged: No
REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICKTHE PERFECT AUDIOBOOK FOR NATURE LOVERS, BIRDERS, AND GARDENERS * USA TODAY BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * AMAZON EDITOR’S PICK * INDIE NEXT PICKFrom the beloved New York Times opinion writer and bestselling author of Late Migrations comes a “howling love letter to the world” (Ann Patchett): a luminous book that traces... Read more
View audiobookThe 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
View audiobookThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
By: Steve Brusatte
Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
Length: 10 hours 6 minutes
Abridged: No
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
View audiobookFinding 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
The Soul of an Octopus
By: Sy Montgomery
Length: 9 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
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
View audiobookGathering 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
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
The Book of Hope
By: Jane Goodall & Douglas Abrams
Narrated by: Douglas Abrams & Jane Goodall
Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
In a world that seems so troubled, how do we hold on to hope?
This program is read by the authors and includes a bonus PDF.
Looking at the headlines—the worsening climate crisis, a global pandemic, loss of biodiversity, political upheaval—it can be hard to feel optimistic. And yet hope has never been more desperately needed.
In this urgent... Read more
Running with Sherman
By: Christopher McDougall
Narrated by: Christopher McDougall
Length: 12 hours 12 minutes
Abridged: No
"A delight, full of heart and hijinks and humor . . . McDougall is a gifted storyteller who gets to the heart of the human-animal connection." --John Grogan, author of Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
From the best-selling author of Born to Run, a heartwarming story about training a rescue donkey to run one of the most... 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
Of Time and Turtles
By: Sy Montgomery
Narrated by: Sy Montgomery
Length: 10 hours 33 minutes
Abridged: No
National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times bestseller Sy Montgomery turns her journalistic curiosity to the wonder and wisdom of our long-lived cohabitants—turtles—and through their stories of hope and rescue, reveals to us astonishing new perspectives on time and healing.When acclaimed naturalist Sy Montgomery... Read more
View audiobookSomething in the Woods Loves You
By: Jarod K. Anderson
Narrated by: Jarod K. Anderson
Length: 11 hours 30 minutes
Abridged: No
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
The Spell of the Sensuous
By: David Abram
Narrated by: Sean Runnette
Length: 12 hours 4 minutes
Abridged: No
For a thousand generations, human beings viewed themselves as part of the wider community of nature, and they carried on active relationships not only with other people but with other animals, plants, and natural objects (including mountains, rivers, winds, and weather patterns) that we have only lately come to think of as "inanimate." How,... Read more
View audiobookA Woman Among Wolves
By: Diane K. Boyd
Narrated by: Eva Wilhelm
Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
Abridged: No
Called the Jane Goodall of wolves, world-renowned wildlife biologist Diane Boyd has spent four decades studying and advocating for wolves in the wilds of Montana near Glacier National Park. When she started in the 1970s, she was the only female biologist in the United States researching and radio-collaring wild wolves. With her two dogs for... Read more
View audiobookPaper Boat
By: Margaret Atwood
Narrated by: Margaret Atwood
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes
Abridged: No
An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age
Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood—a writer who has fundamentally shaped the contemporary literary landscapes—Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems, 1961–2023 assembles Atwood’s most vital poems in one essential volume.
In pieces that are at... Read more
Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party
By: Edward Dolnick
Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
Length: 8 hours 50 minutes
Abridged: No
From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, an “utterly delightful…hugely entertaining” (Air Mail) book about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.
In the early 1800s the natural world was a safe and cozy place, or so people believed.... Read more
This Is Your Mind on Plants
By: Michael Pollan
Narrated by: Michael Pollan
Length: 7 hours 36 minutes
Abridged: No
The instant New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of the Year
“Expert storytelling . . . [Pollan] masterfully elevates a series of big questions about drugs, plants and humans that are likely to leave readers thinking in new ways.” —New York Times Book Review
From #1 New York Times bestselling author... Read more