Environment & Climate
Individual topics classified under "Environment & Climate", ranked by how many awards the books carrying each one have won combined. Open a topic to see its most-awarded books.
- 1
Climate change
31 books
11
wins
169
score
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History · Elizabeth Kolbert2 wins · 31 score
- Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World · John Vaillant1 win · 23 score
- Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made · Gaia Vince1 win · 8 score
- Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet · Mark Lynas1 win · 8 score
- The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change · Charles Wohlforth1 win · 8 score
- 2
Hurricane Katrina
5 books
6
wins
60
score
- Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital · Sheri Fink4 wins · 37 score
- Katrina: A History, 1915-2015 · Andy Horowitz1 win · 8 score
- Zeitoun · Dave Eggers1 win · 8 score
- Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone · Joshua Clark0 wins · 4 score
- The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast · Douglas Brinkley0 wins · 3 score
- 3
Environmental history
11 books
2
wins
47
score
- When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World · Jordan Thomas0 wins · 10 score
- Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s · Donald Worster1 win · 8 score
- The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail · W. Jeffrey Bolster1 win · 8 score
- Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis · Annie Proulx0 wins · 4 score
- Gulf: The Making of An American Sea · Jack Davis0 wins · 4 score
- 4
Ecology
5 books
2
wins
24
score
- The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature · David G. Haskell0 wins · 6 score
- Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos · Garrett Hardin1 win · 5 score
- The Closing Circle: Nature, Man and Technology · Barry Commoner1 win · 5 score
- The Wooing of Earth · René Dubos0 wins · 4 score
- The World Without Us · Alan Weisman0 wins · 4 score
- 5
Overpopulation
4 books
2
wins
21
score
- Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth? · Alan Weisman1 win · 8 score
- Living Within Limits: Ecology, Economics, and Population Taboos · Garrett Hardin1 win · 5 score
- Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans · Alan Riding0 wins · 4 score
- The Last Horizon · Raymond Fredric Dasmann0 wins · 4 score
- 6
Wildlife conservation
10 books
1
win
32
score
- Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl · Jonathan Slaght1 win · 5 score
- Autumn of the Eagle · George Laycock0 wins · 4 score
- Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild · Ellen Meloy0 wins · 4 score
- The Tree Where Man Was Born · Peter Matthiessen0 wins · 4 score
- A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future · David Hancocks0 wins · 3 score
- 7
Plate tectonics
4 books
1
win
23
score
- 8
Human-nature relationship
4 books
1
win
18
score
- 9
Environmental science
3 books
1
win
15
score
- 10
Environmental activism
4 books
0
wins
12
score
- My Story as Told by Water · David James Duncan0 wins · 4 score
- Why I Came West · Rick Bass0 wins · 4 score
- A Field Philosopher's Guide to Fracking: How One Texas Town Stood Up to Big Oil and Gas · Adam Briggle0 wins · 2 score
- Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World · Lisa Wells0 wins · 2 score
- 11
Environmental policy
3 books
0
wins
12
score
- 12
Nature writing
3 books
0
wins
12
score
- 13
Environmental conservation
3 books
0
wins
9
score
- 14
Natural disasters
3 books
0
wins
8
score
- A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America's Hurricanes · Eric Jay Dolin0 wins · 3 score
- This Gulf of Fire: The Destruction of Lisbon, or Apocalypse in the Age of Science and Reason · Mark Molesky0 wins · 3 score
- Island on Fire: The Extraordinary Story of a Forgotten Volcano That Changed the World · Alexandra Witze and Jeff Kanipe0 wins · 2 score
Recent Standout Topics (2020+)
- 1Climate change1 win
- 2Environmental history0 wins
Where This Data Comes From
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction2012–2026
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Award1936–2026
- Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction1999–2026
- Bancroft Prize1948–2026
- Cundill History Prize2008–2026
- Financial Times and Standard Chartered Business Book of the Year Award2005–2026
- J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize1999–2026
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography1919–2025
- Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction2014–2026
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography1981–2025