I started posting reviews of wildlife/conservation/environmental books on my blog in 2012. I have reviewed 550+ books here since then.
Since 2015 I have selected a book to be this blog’s Book of the Year.
Here are most of them but a couple are missing and must be running wild in the house somewhere. Unless I lent them to someone – it wasn’t you, was it?
Here are this blog’s Books of the Year and links to the other books reviewed in that year. You could buy my books of the year from Bookshop.org and I have set up a booklist to make that easy through this link https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/MarkAvery Disclosure: I am an affiliate of Bookshop.org and I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase
2025 Urban Plants by Trevor Dines – review and all 2025 book reviews
2024 The Flitting by Ben Masters – review and all 2024 book reviews
2023 Traffication by Paul Donald – review and all 2023 book reviews
and Cry of the Wild by Charles Foster – review
2022 In Search of One Last Song by Patrick Galbraith – review and all 2022 book reviews
2021 The Implausible Rewilding of the Pyrenees by Steve Cracknell – review and all 2021 book reviews
2020 Red Sixty Seven curated by Kit Jewitt – review and all 2020 book reviews
and Cottongrass Summer by Roy Dennis – review
2019 Green and Prosperous Land by Dieter Helm – review and all 2019 book reviews
2018 Wilding by Isabella Tree – review and all 2018 book reviews
2017 Sky Dancer by Gill Lewis – review
2016 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham – review
2015 The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks – review