Last Updated: March 11, 2025
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
by Katherine Rundell
A tour of the natural world’s most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction.
Sy Montgomery takes us inside the flock and reveals all the things that make chickens such remarkable creatures: only hours after leaving the egg, they are able to walk, run, and peck; relationships are important to them and the average chicken can recognize more than one hundred other chickens; they remember the past and anticipate the future; and they communicate specific information through at least twenty-four distinct calls.
Raising Hare: A Memoir
by Chloe Dalton
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.
Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir
by Markus Zusak
This is a memoir about the human need for both connection and disorder, a love letter to the animals who bring hilarity and beauty–but also the visceral truth of the natural world–straight to our doors and into our lives and change us forever.