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If you loved Silent Spring

Books like Silent Spring

If you loved Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, Linda Lear, Edward O. Wilson, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

Aldo Leopold

No. 2

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

No. 3

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

No. 4

The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World

Michael Pollan

No. 5

The Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

No. 6

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

No. 7

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Dee Brown

No. 8

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Robert M. Pirsig

No. 9

The Snow Leopard

Peter Matthiessen

No. 10

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

No. 11

Desert Solitaire

Edward Abbey

No. 12

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

No. 13

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli, Adolph Caso, Rufus Goodwin, Benjamin Martinez

No. 14

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

No. 15

Tao Te Ching

Lao Tzu

No. 16

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Carl Sagan

No. 17

A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn

No. 18

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Jared Diamond

No. 19

The Elements of Style

William Strunk Jr., E.B. White

No. 20

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Eric Schlosser

No. 21

The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X, Alex Haley

No. 22

The Map That Changed the World

Simon Winchester

No. 23

A Walk in the Woods

Bill Bryson

No. 24

Never Cry Wolf

Farley Mowat