Lannan Non-Fiction Awards

1.
Arctic Dreams
Arctic Dreams 4.23 avg rating — 8,801 ratings
2.
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions 4.06 avg rating — 686 ratings
3.
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology 4.17 avg rating — 1,672 ratings
4.
My Story as told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark
My Story as told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-watchings, Fish-stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark 4.12 avg rating — 886 ratings
5.
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings
6.
The Dream of the Earth
The Dream of the Earth 4.19 avg rating — 371 ratings
7.
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays
Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community: Eight Essays 4.26 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
8.
Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground
Blues for Cannibals: The Notes from Underground 4.05 avg rating — 177 ratings
9.
A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia
A Land of Ghosts: The Braided Lives of People and the Forest in Far Western Amazonia 3.78 avg rating — 77 ratings
10.
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media 4.24 avg rating — 23,239 ratings
11.
Planet of Slums
Planet of Slums really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,287 ratings
12.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,875 ratings
13.
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America 3.73 avg rating — 10,296 ratings
14.
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals 4.22 avg rating — 729 ratings
15.
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism
The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism 3.84 avg rating — 773 ratings
16.
The Death of the Liberal Class
The Death of the Liberal Class 4.06 avg rating — 3,601 ratings
17.
Mortality
Mortality 4.12 avg rating — 29,013 ratings
18.
Compass Points: How I Lived
Compass Points: How I Lived 4.13 avg rating — 30 ratings
19.
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 4.14 avg rating — 9,093 ratings
20.
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art 4.18 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
21.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change 4.04 avg rating — 4,756 ratings
22.
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation
Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation 4.26 avg rating — 5,516 ratings
23.
Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species
Noah's Choice: The Future of Endangered Species 3.83 avg rating — 96 ratings
24.
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail 4.01 avg rating — 558 ratings
25.
The End of Nature
The End of Nature 3.94 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
26.
Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity 3.75 avg rating — 302 ratings
27.
The Island Within
The Island Within 4.25 avg rating — 368 ratings
28.
When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist
When God Is Gone, Everything Is Holy: The Making of a Religious Naturalist 4.11 avg rating — 235 ratings
29.
The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World
The View from Lazy Point: A Natural Year in an Unnatural World 4.26 avg rating — 509 ratings
30.
A Private History of Awe
A Private History of Awe 4.25 avg rating — 263 ratings
31.
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army 3.81 avg rating — 8,292 ratings
32.
The Fate of the Earth
The Fate of the Earth 3.93 avg rating — 297 ratings
33.
A Field Guide to Getting Lost
A Field Guide to Getting Lost 3.91 avg rating — 20,204 ratings
34.
By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border
By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border 4.18 avg rating — 697 ratings
35.
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology 3.95 avg rating — 2,811 ratings
36.
Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Finding Beauty in a Broken World 3.94 avg rating — 1,061 ratings
37.
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy 4.25 avg rating — 2,170 ratings