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

If you enjoyed The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf, then you might also enjoy these books--and it's quite a long list this month!--suggested by our discussion group members:

Nonfiction

• Fact and Fiction: Literary and Scientific Cultures in Germany and Britain by Christine Lehleiter
• Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species by Sean B. Carroll
• Darwin: Portrait of a Genius by Paul Johnson
• Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey
• 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus and 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann
• The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold
• Meander: East to West, Indirectly, Along a Turkish River by Jeremy Seal
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin
• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley
• The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History by Darrin Lunde
• The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candace Millard
• The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
• Vienna, 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna by David King
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's Eye-View of the World and Second Nature: A Gardener's Education by Michael Pollan 
• The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds, The Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales, and The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us by Diane Ackerman

Fiction

• Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier
• The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
• Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by Jacqueline Kelly

And Wendell Berry's many novels, essay collections, and poetry collections