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Books like Wicked Plants
A delightfully macabre stroll through a garden where every leaf, seed, and vine is out to get you. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Wicked Plants.
- delightfully sinister
- curious
- cozy-gothic
- slightly paranoid
- 01
The Drunken Botanist
Amy Stewart
A witty, intoxicating stroll through the garden of earthly delights that proves every great cocktail is a triumph of agriculture.
- 02
The botany of desire
Michael Pollan · 2002
A paradigm-shifting stroll through the garden that makes you wonder who is really cultivating whom.
- 03
Fifty plants that changed the course of history
Bill Laws
A beautifully illustrated, fascinating stroll through the botanical wonders that quietly built human civilization.
- 04
The encyclopedia of medicinal plants
Andrew Chevallier · 1996
An earthy, empowering reference that transforms the weeds in your backyard into a fascinating apothecary.
- 05
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan
A thoughtful, immersive exploration of how the natural world quietly shapes human consciousness.
- 06
Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch
Rivka Galchen
A wry, darkly comic, and quietly devastating portrait of an eccentric woman caught in the absurd machinery of a seventeenth-century witch hunt.
- 07
Five Days at Memorial
Sheri Fink
A harrowing, meticulously documented descent into a crisis where the boundaries of medical ethics and human endurance collapse.
- 08
BRAIDING SWEETGRASS
Robin Wall Kimmerer
A quiet, transformative meditation that permanently changes the way you look at the ground beneath your feet.
- 09
How not to die
Jan Garavaglia · 2008
A morbidly fascinating, tough-love guide to staying alive, delivered straight from the autopsy table.
- 10
Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter
Seth Grahame-Smith
A straight-faced, blood-soaked reimagining of American history where the greatest political battles are fought with an axe in the dark.
- 11
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake
A mind-expanding, earthy exploration that completely rewires how you perceive the natural world and your place within it.
- 12
The Disappearing Spoon
Sam Kean
A delightfully quirky romp through the periodic table that reveals the eccentricities, obsessions, and scandals behind the building blocks of our universe.
