Great Non-fiction Wildlife books
2. 
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
by:
Farley Mowat
4.21 avg rating — 25,555 ratings 
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Don't Look Behind You! A Safari Guide's Encounters with Ravenous Lions, Stampeding Elephants, and Lovesick Rhinos
by:
Peter Allison
4.08 avg rating — 1,868 ratings 5. 
Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World
by:
Noah Strycker
4.27 avg rating — 2,176 ratings 
9. 
Into the Nest: Intimate Views of the Courting, Parenting, and Family Lives of Familiar Birds
by:
Marie Read
4.40 avg rating — 122 ratings 11. 
Whatever You Do, Don't Run: True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
by:
Peter Allison
4.02 avg rating — 11,607 ratings 12. 
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder
by:
Kenn Kaufman
4.29 avg rating — 2,624 ratings 13. 
Mason Bee Revolution: How the Hardest Working Bee Can Save the World - One Backyard at a Time
by:
Dave Hunter
4.14 avg rating — 176 ratings 14. 
Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe
by:
Jane Goodall
4.29 avg rating — 3,223 ratings 15. 
Appointment at the Ends of the World: Memoirs of a Wildlife Veterinarian 4.11 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective
by:
Paul Colinvaux
4.19 avg rating — 267 ratings 15. 
Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds
by:
Scott Weidensaul
4.41 avg rating — 577 ratings 15. 
Kakapo Rescue: Saving the World's Strangest Parrot
by:
Sy Montgomery
4.10 avg rating — 1,343 ratings 
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The Genius Bat: The Secret Life of the Only Flying Mammal
by:
Yossi Yovel
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings 22. 
The Presence of Whales: Contemporary Writings on the Whale
by:
Frank Stewart
4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings 
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Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain
by:
Lucy Jones
3.91 avg rating — 568 ratings 
22. 
Deer Man: Seven Years Living with Deer in the Wild
by:
Geoffroy Delorme
3.96 avg rating — 757 ratings 22. 
The Extinction Club: A Tale of Deer, Lost Books, and a Rather Fine Canary Yellow Sweater
by:
Robert Twigger
3.17 avg rating — 110 ratings 28. 
Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird
by:
Tony Juniper
3.91 avg rating — 126 ratings 28. 
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog): Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution 4.22 avg rating — 1,785 ratings
28. 
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America
by:
Dan Flores
3.99 avg rating — 2,752 ratings 
31. 
Killers In Eden: The True Story of Killer Whales and their Remarkable Partnership with the Whalers of Twofold Bay
by:
Danielle Clode
4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings 31. 
The Secret World of Red Wolves: The Fight to Save North America's Other Wolf 4.12 avg rating — 103 ratings
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The Way of the Wild Goose: Three Pilgrimages Following Geese, Stars, and Hunches on the Camino de Santiago
by:
Beebe Bahrami
4.17 avg rating — 89 ratings 35. 
The Birds at My Table: Why We Feed Wild Birds and Why It Matters
by:
Darryl Jones
3.82 avg rating — 111 ratings 35. 
The Inner Life of Animals: Love, Grief, and Compassion - Surprising Observations of a Hidden World
by:
Peter Wohlleben
3.76 avg rating — 9,510 ratings 
39. 
The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey
by:
Deborah Cramer
4.13 avg rating — 211 ratings 39. 
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
by:
Ben Goldfarb
4.28 avg rating — 4,973 ratings 39. 
The Secret Network of Nature: The Delicate Balance of All Living Things
by:
Peter Wohlleben
4.05 avg rating — 6,881 ratings 
43. 
Birding at the Bridge: In Search of Every Bird on the Brooklyn Waterfront
by:
Heather Wolf
4.44 avg rating — 39 ratings 
43. 
Raccoon Gangs, Pigeons Gone Bad, and Other Animal Adventures: A Wildlife Rehabber's Tale of Birds and Beasts 3.79 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Planet Elephant: A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
by:
Tammie Matson
4.08 avg rating — 38 ratings 47. 
Voices of the Wild: Animal Songs, Human Din, and the Call to Save Natural Soundscapes (The Future Series)
by:
Bernie Krause
3.67 avg rating — 45 ratings 
49. 
What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why 4.42 avg rating — 2,387 ratings
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Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife
by:
John M. Marzluff
3.87 avg rating — 216 ratings 53. 
A Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration
by:
Kenn Kaufman
4.07 avg rating — 721 ratings 
53. 
History Comics: The Wild Mustang: Horses of the American West
by:
Chris Duffy
3.84 avg rating — 149 ratings 
57. 
Stories Rabbits Tell: A Natural and Cultural History of a Misunderstood Creature
by:
Susan E. Davis
4.29 avg rating — 220 ratings 57. 
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
by:
Emma Marris
4.30 avg rating — 699 ratings 60. 
North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Migration of Spring
by:
Bruce M. Beehler
3.90 avg rating — 120 ratings 60. 
Those Wild Rabbits, Exploring Australia's Unique Rabbit Problem
by:
Bruce Munday
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings 60. 
Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World 4.28 avg rating — 222 ratings
63. 
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by:
Jonathan Weiner
4.17 avg rating — 9,807 ratings 
63. 
The Lost Grizzlies: A Search for Survivors in the Wilderness of Colorado
by:
Rick Bass
4.06 avg rating — 612 ratings 
66. 
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways
by:
Derek Gow
3.94 avg rating — 782 ratings 
69. 
Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
by:
Tucker Malarkey
4.30 avg rating — 905 ratings 70. 
Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard 4.37 avg rating — 6,370 ratings
70. 
Cat Tale: The Wild, Weird Battle to Save the Florida Panther
by:
Craig Pittman
4.16 avg rating — 967 ratings 72. 
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
by:
Rob Dunn
4.20 avg rating — 2,401 ratings 72. 
Neighborhood Hawks: A Year Following Wild Birds (Wormsloe Foundation Nature Books)
by:
John Lane
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 74. 
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95
by:
Phillip Hoose
3.91 avg rating — 2,080 ratings 
76. 
What the Robin Knows: How Birds Reveal the Secrets of the Natural World
by:
Jon Young
4.11 avg rating — 1,624 ratings 76. 
Wildhood: the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals 4.12 avg rating — 497 ratings
78. 
The Wild Horse Dilemma: Conflicts and Controversies of the Atlantic Coast Herds 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
79. 
Upstream: Searching for Wild Salmon, from River to Table
by:
Langdon Cook
4.19 avg rating — 239 ratings 80. 
Wolf Nation: The Life, Death, and Return of Wild American Wolves (A Merloyd Lawrence Book)
by:
Brenda Peterson
3.98 avg rating — 282 ratings 81. 
Wild Lives: Leading Conservationists on the Animals and the Planet They Love
by:
Lori Robinson
4.09 avg rating — 33 ratings 82. 
Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall
by:
Krista Schlyer
4.78 avg rating — 27 ratings 
84. 
Wild Horse Country: The History, Myth, and Future of the Mustang
by:
David Philipps
4.30 avg rating — 417 ratings 
86. 
Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives―and Save Theirs
by:
Richard Louv
3.81 avg rating — 547 ratings 87. 
89. 
The Truth About Animals: Stoned Sloths, Lovelorn Hippos, and Other Tales from the Wild Side of Wildlife
by:
Lucy Cooke
4.25 avg rating — 5,124 ratings 
91. 
Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth
by:
Jane Alexander
3.51 avg rating — 213 ratings 92. 
Following Fifi: My Adventures Among Wild Chimpanzees: Lessons from our Closest Relatives
by:
John Crocker
3.83 avg rating — 83 ratings 93. 
City Beasts: Fourteen Stories of Uninvited Wildlife
by:
Mark Kurlansky
3.13 avg rating — 193 ratings 94. 
The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
by:
H. Alan Day
4.30 avg rating — 186 ratings 95. 
Voices in the Ocean: A Journey into the Wild and Haunting World of Dolphins
by:
Susan Casey
4.04 avg rating — 3,303 ratings 96. 
City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness
by:
Gavin van Horn
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings 97. 
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America
by:
William Souder
3.95 avg rating — 400 ratings 98. 
Wild Soundscapes: Discovering the Voice of the Natural World
by:
Bernie Krause
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 46 ratings 
100. 
Unseen City: The Majesty of Pigeons, the Discreet Charm of Snails & Other Wonders of the Urban Wilderness 4.01 avg rating — 1,797 ratings