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Books like The Tree

If you loved The Tree by John Fowles, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Trees, Plants, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

Top related books to The Tree

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

The Animal-Lore of Shakespeare’s Time

Emma Phipson

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Landscape and Literature

Stephen Siddall

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Scottish Writing After Devolution Edges of the New

Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Sweary Cats

Andrew Davies

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition

Hugh White

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

Henry Thoreau

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

Roger Deakin

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

A Celebration of Birds

Robert Dougall

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

Representing Beasts in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia

Michael Bintley

Themes: Plants • European • Nature

#10

The Oxford Book of the Sea

Jonathan Raban

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#11

Philocalia Elementary Essays On Natural, Poetic And Picturesque Beauty (1864)

William Purton

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#12

Antarctica in Fiction Imaginative Narratives of the Far South

Elizabeth Leane

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#13

Romantic Ecology (Routledge Revivals) Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition

Jonathan Bate

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#14

Life At Grasmere

Dorothy Wordsworth

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#15

Writing the Thames

Christina Hardyment

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#16

The Light in the Dark A Winter Journal

Horatio Clare

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#17

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration

Dan Brayton

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#18

The Rural Tradition A Study of the Non-Fiction Prose Writers of the English Countryside

William Keith

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#19

A History of Irish Literature and the Environment

Malcolm Sen

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#20

Coasting

Jonathan Raban

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#21

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795

Joseph Fletcher

Themes: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European • Nature

#22

Trees

Lisa Jane Gillespie

Themes: Trees • Plants • Nature

#23

Concise Tree Guide

Bloomsbury

Themes: Trees • Plants • Nature

#24

Trees, Gardener’s Collection

Better Homes and Gardens Editors

Themes: Trees • Plants • Nature

If The Tree by John Fowles is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Trees, Plants, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Emma Phipson, Stephen Siddall, Marie-Odile Pittin-Hedon, Andrew Davies, and others.