Weeds, pests, invasives, and diseases
1. 
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 
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A Weed by Any Other Name: The Virtues of a Messy Lawn, or Learning to Love the Plants We Don't Plant
by:
Nancy Gift
3.38 avg rating — 45 ratings 4. 
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
by:
Laurie Garrett
4.21 avg rating — 10,688 ratings 5. 
This Is Your Brain on Parasites: How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society 3.98 avg rating — 2,436 ratings
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Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures
by:
Carl Zimmer
4.20 avg rating — 5,906 ratings 
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The Secret Life of Germs: What They Are, Why We Need Them, and How We Can Protect Ourselves Against Them 3.84 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
by:
Merlin Sheldrake
4.33 avg rating — 47,218 ratings 11. 
Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats (Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books)
by:
Dawn Day Biehler
3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings 12. 
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by:
Dee Brown
4.26 avg rating — 99,676 ratings 
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.05 avg rating — 93,177 ratings 16. 
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
by:
Sharon Moalem
4.14 avg rating — 8,938 ratings 18. 
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
by:
Charles C. Mann
4.12 avg rating — 20,586 ratings 
18. 
Weeds: How Vagabond Plants Gatecrashed Civilisation and Changed the Way We Think About Nature
by:
Richard Mabey
3.83 avg rating — 950 ratings 
21. 
The Disease Delusion: Conquering the Causes of Chronic Illness for a Healthier, Longer, and Happier Life
by:
Jeffrey S. Bland
4.20 avg rating — 970 ratings 
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Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities
by:
Amy Stewart
3.82 avg rating — 10,910 ratings 24. 
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900
by:
Alfred W. Crosby
3.98 avg rating — 1,834 ratings 27. 
Insect, Disease & Weed I.D. Guide: Find-It-Fast Organic Solutions for Your Garden (Rodale Organic Gardening Book)
by:
Anna Carr
4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings 27. 
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The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities
by:
Peter S. Alagona
4.09 avg rating — 322 ratings 32. 
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Weeds in the Urban Landscape: Where They Come from, Why They're Here, and How to Live with Them
by:
Richard Orlando
3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings 37. 
Manage Weeds On Your Farm A Guide to Ecological Strategies it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
37. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 
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Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are
by:
Marlene Zuk
3.73 avg rating — 210 ratings 43. 
Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth 4.14 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants 4.45 avg rating — 3,467 ratings
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Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard 4.37 avg rating — 6,369 ratings
49. 
Thriving with Microbes: The Unseen Intelligence Within and Around Us
by:
Sputnik Futures
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
53. 
Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats
by:
Maryn McKenna
4.20 avg rating — 883 ratings 
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Never Say It's Just A Dandelion: 125 Wonderful Common Plants for Walkers and Walk Leaders
by:
Hilary Hopkins
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 58. 
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by:
David Quammen
4.42 avg rating — 20,023 ratings 
60. 
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
by:
Ben Goldfarb
4.43 avg rating — 3,175 ratings 
62. 
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery
by:
Kathryn Phillips
4.15 avg rating — 53 ratings 64. 
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Deerland: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness
by:
Al Cambronne
3.91 avg rating — 45 ratings 
69. 
Weeds of California and Other Western States (2-Volume Set) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Book of Field & Roadside: Open-Country Weeds, Trees, and Wildflowers of Eastern North America
by:
John Eastman
4.44 avg rating — 25 ratings 
75. 
All Plants Are Edible Once: The Stories of Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
77. 
The Wild Wisdom of Weeds: 13 Essential Plants for Human Survival
by:
Katrina Blair
4.04 avg rating — 141 ratings 
79. 
The Seed Detective: Uncovering the Secret Histories of Remarkable Vegetables
by:
Adam Alexander
3.90 avg rating — 454 ratings 80. 
Medicinal Resources of the Tropical Forest: Biodiversity and its Importance to Human Health 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
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Disease and the Modern World: 1500 to the Present Day
by:
Mark Harrison
3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings 86. 
87. 
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by:
Jared Diamond
4.04 avg rating — 445,021 ratings 
91. 
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
by:
Ed Yong
4.18 avg rating — 30,336 ratings 
93. 
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
by:
Martin J. Blaser
4.16 avg rating — 3,749 ratings 94. 
The End of Plagues: The Global Battle Against Infectious Disease
by:
John Rhodes
3.66 avg rating — 65 ratings 95. 
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When Germs Travel: Six major epidemics that have invaded America since 1900 and the fears they have unleashed
by:
Howard Markel
3.90 avg rating — 355 ratings 98. 
The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
by:
Richard D. Wolff
3.93 avg rating — 151 ratings 99. 
