This is an alphabetical version. For a subjective ranked version see: Ranked: Earth's Flora and Fauna
This is a list of books about life on planet Earth, with the exception of humans that is.
Fauna (Animals)
- Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de Waal
- A Book of Bees by Sue Hubbell
- Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World's Most Coveted Delicacy by Inga Saffron
- The Dragon Seekers: How An Extraordinary Circle Of Fossilists Discovered The Dinosaurs And Paved The Way For Darwin by Christopher McGowan
Fauna / Fiction
- The River Why by David James Duncan
Flora
- The New Farm: Our Ten Years on the Front Lines of the Good Food Revolution by Brent Preston
- Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott
- The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World by Charles C. Mann
Flora and Fauna
- The Challenge Of Africa by Wangari Maathai
- The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson
- Galapagos at the Crossroads: Pirates, Biologists, Tourists, and Creationists Battle for Darwin's Cradle of Evolution by Carol Ann Bassett
- I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life by Ed Yong
- Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds by Jim Sterba
- Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet by Hannah Ritchie
- The Secret Network of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things-- Stories from Science and Observation by Peter Wohlleben