Readalikes: If you enjoyed February's selection . . .

Our discussions of The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert were animated and far-ranging, generating lots of suggestions for further reading and viewing!

If you enjoyed The Sixth Extinction, then you might also like these books recommended by our discussion members: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, the classic that launched the environmental movement; 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann about how the Columbian Exchange changed the world; Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari about the cognitive revolution and how the ability to tell fictions changed the world; The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Faultline between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold, in which she reveals that many religious disputes have a secular trigger, such as scarcity of resources and control over natural resources; Cod: A biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky about a species of fish that has helped to further the growth and spread of our species and that we have fished to near-depletion; Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish by G. Bruce Knecht about another species of fish, the Patagonian Toothfish, or Chilean Sea Bass, that is valuable enough to become the loot of real-life pirates; A Feathered River Across the Sky:The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg about the extinction in just a 50-year time span of a bird that once comprised forty percent of our continent's birds; The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant about the pressures placed on the Amur tiger by consumer desire for exotic products made from this endangered animal; The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling about one of the first female scientists and first scientists to study extinction; Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B. Carroll about the scientists who first studied the origins of our remarkable species; and Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey, a behind-the-scenes tour of London's Natural History Museum.

And you might also enjoy watching these films: Winged Migration by Jacques Perrin, a visually stunning documentary about the migration of birds around the world; and PBS's Earth: A New Wild series about our species' relationship with the planet and its wild places and diverse species.

This list should keep you busy inside during this cold weather, but don't forget our next book for discussion, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson, a book about how the Middle East as we know and experience it today was made by an improbable handful of adventurers and low-level officers during World War I . . . another almost unbelievable story!