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Zoë Schlanger Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Environment reporter. Into chemicals, climate, cool plants. Writing THE LIGHT EATERS, a plant book, for @harperbooks. • zoeschlanger at gmail dot com

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Book Cover for: Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner), Norman Rush

Mating: A Novel (National Book Award Winner)

Norman Rush
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@OliviaGoldhill I think you’d love Mating by Norman Rush. Also: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett is great for holiday

Paperback, 1992

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: State of Wonder, Ann Patchett

State of Wonder

Ann Patchett
Zoë SchlangerZoë Schlanger

@OliviaGoldhill I think you’d love Mating by Norman Rush. Also: State of Wonder by Ann Patchett is great for holiday

Paperback, 2012

$19.00Member price:$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth, Zoë Schlanger

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger
Zoë SchlangerZoë Schlanger

In thinking about plant intelligence, what we’re really thinking about is how much plants are active participants in their own life. They have some sense of agency, even if it doesn’t look anything like our own agency. I think that is really humbling.

Hardcover, 2024

$29.99Member price:$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book