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A sobering, globe-trotting journey through deep time and fragile ecosystems that fundamentally alters how you view humanity's footprint. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Sixth Extinction.
- foreboding
- melancholic
- awe-inspiring
- dread-soaked
- 01
Under a White Sky
Elizabeth Kolbert
A wry, sobering travelogue through the bizarre, highly engineered landscapes of the Anthropocene.
- 02
Field notes from a catastrophe
Elizabeth Kolbert
A sobering, globe-trotting journalistic investigation into the terrifying realities of a warming planet.
- 03
The Uninhabitable Earth
David Wallace-Wells
A relentless, white-knuckled plunge into the terrifying realities of our climate future that demands you look away from nothing.
- 04
Adventures in the Anthropocene
Gaia Vince
A globe-trotting, deeply human look at our changing planet that balances the gravity of ecological crisis with the spark of human resilience.
- 05
The Precipice
Toby Ord
A sobering yet awe-inspiring confrontation with the fragility of our species and the staggering moral weight of our long-term future.
- 06
A Life on Our Planet
David Attenborough and Jonnie Hughes
A sobering but ultimately hopeful fireside chat with a beloved naturalist about the fate of our shared home.
- 07
The Song of the Dodo
Simon & Schuster · 1998
A globe-trotting, intellectually thrilling journey through the fragile, isolated ecosystems where evolution and extinction collide.
- 08
Learning to die in the Anthropocene
Roy Scranton
A fierce, concise, and philosophical confrontation with the grim realities of climate change that ultimately searches for a reimagined humanism.
- 09
Losing Earth
Nathaniel Rich
A gripping, infuriating historical thriller about the decade we almost saved the world, and the human flaws that stopped us.
- 10
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
A globe-trotting, time-traveling adventure that reignites the childhood awe of prehistoric giants through the lens of modern science.
- 11
The World Without Us
Alan Weisman · 2007
A hauntingly beautiful thought experiment that finds strange serenity in imagining the Earth slowly erasing the human footprint.
- 12
Spillover
David Quammen
A globe-trotting scientific thriller that reveals the terrifying, invisible threads connecting human civilization to the deepest, darkest corners of the natural world.
