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

“Part memoir, part native and scientific knowledge, Braiding Sweetgrass is a wonderful work of non-fiction. There is so much to be learned about gratitude in this book, and Kimmerer's poetic-prose will help you find wonder in the world again. Read by the author, it's one book that can teach a bit of something to everyone. 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

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

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

“Just... wow. Never have I read anything like this. It's remarkable. To say it's part memoir and part biography of David Starr Jordan, the famous taxonomist (don't worry, I didn't know who he was either), on some level is true, but it doesn't even begin to encompass everything this book is. In just over 200 pages, Miller tackles existential... 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

CABIN

Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman

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

“Whether you are in the Pacific Northwest or in the Catskills like we are, there’s so much to identify with and delight in the Cabin’s vignettes of discovery, friendship, apprehension, skill-building and triumph. 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

The Comfort of Crows

A Backyard Year

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

“Oh, my what a joyous read. The author reflects on the changes that take place in the wild from season to season beginning in winter ending with autumn. Her yard in Nashville, local parks and a cabin on the Cumberland Plateau are her main areas of observation. She also writes about growing up on a farm in Alabama. The language is so beautiful... 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 1�7 (The New York Times), “dazzling 1�7 (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 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

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

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

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

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.”�1�7�Ed Yong, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of An Immense World

Christian Cooper is a self-described... 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

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

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

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

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

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

California Burning

The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid

By: Katherine Blunt
Narrated by: Nan McNamara
Length: 9 hours 41 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
2022 Winner of the Golden Poppy Award for Nonfiction (California Independent Booksellers Alliance)

A revelatory, urgent narrative with national implications, exploring the decline of California’s largest utility company that led to countless wildfires  1�7 including the one that destroyed the town of Paradise  1�7 and the human cost... 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 Great Displacement

Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle
Narrated by: Matt Godfrey
Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Shortlisted for the 2024 Carnegie Medal for Excellence

The “closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted 1�7 (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Under a White Sky) story of climate migration in the United States—the personal stories of those experiencing displacement, the portraits of communities torn apart by disaster, and the... Read more

1491

New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Charles C. Mann
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 16 hours 15 minutes

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492.

Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere at the time of Columbus’s landing had crossed the Bering Strait twelve thousand years ago; existed mainly in... 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

Soil

The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

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

“Part nature writing, part exploration of the African diaspora and Black identity, part memoir, Dungy puts herself in conversation with all the white nature writers who've come before - Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson - and exposes how a monoculture in both cultivars and cultural backgrounds threatens us and... Read more

Ingrained

The Making of a Craftsman

By: Callum Robinson
Narrated by: Callum Robinson
Length: 8 hours 9 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTIONA captivating memoir that immerses readers in the life of a Scottish carpenter as he perfects his craft, builds a business, and reflects on what inheritance and shared responsibility really meanThe eldest son of a master woodworker, Callum Robinson spent... Read more

The Uninhabitable Earth

Life After Warming

By: David Wallace-Wells
Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
Length: 8 hours 59 minutes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  1�7  1�7i>The Uninhabitable Earth hits you like a comet, with an overflow of insanely lyrical prose about our pending Armageddon.”�1�7�Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon

With a new afterword

It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise, you are... Read more

The Feather Thief

Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson
Narrated by: MacLeod Andrews
Length: 8 hours 4 minutes

“The Feather Thief is true crime at its best  1�7 a tale starting with the Amazonian explorations of Darwin-era naturalists, rooted in the eccentric sensibilities of Victorian collectors, fueled by the obscure cult of fly-fishing tying, and culminating with a shocking 2009 British Museum heist by a shy American flautist. All of these elements are... 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. 1�7/strong> —„1�7strong>Boston GlobeBarbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestselling book describing her family's adventure as they... Read more

How to Love a Forest

The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World

By: Ethan Tapper
Narrated by: Evan Sibley
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes

A tender, fearless debut by a forester writing in the tradition of Suzanne Simard, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Robert MacfarlaneOnly those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks what it means to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth.... 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

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

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

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

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

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 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.""   1�7 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

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

This Is Your Mind on Plants

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

“A fascinating dive into society's relationship with three distinct and ubiquitous substances that are harvested from plants and form parts of our everyday life: opioids, caffeine, and mescaline. Michael Pollan's work is part journalism, part memoir, and wholly engaging. Read more

The Sun Is a Compass

A 4,000-Mile Journey into the Alaskan Wilds

By: Caroline Van Hemert
Narrated by: Xe Sands
Length: 9 hours 1 minute

“The Sun is a Compass is a biologist’s candid journey of self discovery complete with aggressive bears, playful humpback whales, feisty hummingbirds and scolding chickadees. Heading into the most remote areas of Alaska and Canada, Caroline Van Hemert and her husband Pat rowed, rafted, hiked, skied and canoed 4000 miles from Bellingham, Washington... Read more

Eat Like a Fish

My Adventures as a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer

By: Bren Smith
Narrated by: Bren Smith
Length: 7 hours 43 minutes

Part memoir, part manifesto, in Eat Like a Fish Bren Smith—a former commercial fisherman turned restorative ocean farmer—shares a bold new vision for the future of food: seaweed.

Through tales that span from his childhood in Newfoundland to his early years on the high seas aboard commercial fishing trawlers, from pioneering new forms of ocean... Read more

H Is for Hawk

By: Helen Macdonald
Narrated by: Helen Macdonald
Length: 11 hours 6 minutes

The instant New York Times bestseller and multiaward-winning sensation, Helen Macdonald’s story of adopting and raising one of nature’s most vicious predators has soared into the hearts of millions of readers worldwide.When Helen Macdonald’s father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer captivated by hawks... Read more

The Crazies

The Cattleman, the Wind Prospector, and a War Out West

By: Amy Gamerman
Narrated by: Anna Sale
Length: 17 hours 56 minutes

A dazzling piece of narrative nonfiction about land lust and the American West, The Crazies tells the story of a wind farm that triggers a 21st century range war between a struggling fifth-generation rancher and the billionaires next door.

Most locals in Big Timber, Montana learn to live with the wind. Rick Jarrett sought his fortune in it. Like... Read more

As Long as Grass Grows

The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Narrated by: Kyla Garcia
Length: 7 hours 8 minutes

The story of Native peoples 1�7 resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community’s rich history of activism

Through the unique lens of “Indigenized environmental justice, 1�7 Indigenous researcher and activist Dina Gilio-Whitaker explores the fraught history of treaty... Read more

Finding the Mother Tree

Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest

By: Suzanne Simard
Narrated by: Suzanne Simard
Length: 12 hours 13 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER  1�7 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

 1�7i>Finding the Mother Tree reminds us that the world is a web of stories, connecting us to one another. [The... Read more

Cosmos

A Personal Voyage

By: Carl Sagan
Narrated by: LeVar Burton, Seth MacFarlane, Neil deGrasse Tyson & Ann Druyan
Length: 14 hours 31 minutes

RETURNING TO TELEVISION AS AN ALL-NEW MINISERIES ON FOXCosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space. Cosmos retraces the fourteen billion years of... Read more

Water, Water

Poems

By: Billy Collins
Narrated by: Billy Collins
Length: 1 hour 29 minutes

NATIONAL BESTSELLER  1�7 From the former Poet Laureate of the United States and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes a wondrous new collection of poems focused on the joys and mysteries of daily life.

“Among the best poems that [Billy] Collins has ever written.”�1�7�Maureen Corrigan, NPR

“Witty, wry and tender when it hurts, Water,... 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

This Changes Everything

Capitalism vs. The Climate

By: Naomi Klein
Narrated by: Ellen Archer
Length: 20 hours 44 minutes

The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core “free market 1�7 ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems.

In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical... Read more