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Books like Keith County Journal

Across Biology, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Life Sciences, and Nature — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Keith County Journal by John Janovy.

Top related books to Keith County Journal

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Keith County Journal.

The Little Book of Aliens

Adam Frank

Themes: Biology • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences

The Great River The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Boyce Upholt

Themes: Biology • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences

Peterson First Guide to Trees

George A. Petrides

Themes: Biology • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences

What’s Gotten Into You The Story of Your Body’s Atoms, from the Big Bang Through Last Night’s Dinner

Dan Levitt

Themes: Biology • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences

Casting Her Own Shadow Eleanor Roosevelt and the Shaping of Postwar Liberalism

Allida M. Black

Themes: Biology • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences

Early An Intimate History of Premature Birth and What It Teaches Us about Being Human

Sarah DiGregorio

Themes: Biology • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences

Vaccinated From Cowpox to MRNA, the Remarkable Story of Vaccines

Paul A. Offit

Themes: Biology • Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences

The Hidden World of the Fox

Adele Brand

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

The Lying Stones of Marrakech Penultimate Reflections in Natural History

Stephen Jay Gould

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#10

Demonic Males Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Richard W. Wrangham

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#11

Our National Monuments America’s Hidden Gems

QT Luong

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#12

Charles Darwin’s Beagle Diary (1831-1836)

Charles Darwin

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#13

Wild City A Brief History of New York City in 40 Animals

Thomas Hynes

Themes: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences • Nature

#14

The Ends of the World Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth’s Past Mass Extinctions

Peter Brannen

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#15

Insects & Flowers The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian

Maria Sibylla Merian

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#16

Aldo Leopold’s Southwest

Aldo Leopold

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#17

Guns, Germs and Steel A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years

Jared M. Diamond

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#18

Producing Predators Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies

Michael D. Wise

Themes: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) • Life Sciences • Nature

#19

The Species Seekers: Heroes, Fools, and the Mad Pursuit of Life on Earth

Richard Conniff

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#20

Every Living Thing Man’s Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys

Rob R. Dunn

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#21

Chasing Shadows My Life Tracking the Great White Shark

Greg Skomal

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#22

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#23

Anglesey Naturewatch

Philip Snow

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

#24

Sierra East Edge of the Great Basin

Genny Smith

Themes: Biology • Life Sciences • Nature

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Biology, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Life Sciences — the same threads that run through Keith County Journal by John Janovy. Among the authors featured: Adam Frank, Boyce Upholt, George A. Petrides, Dan Levitt, and others.

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