Books like The Soul of an Octopus
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery reads as warm, accessible. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green · 2021
Shares the hopeful + human thread
69% genome match
Cosmos
Carl Sagan · 1980
Shares the human + wonder thread
69% genome match
Physics of the Impossible
Michio Kaku · 2008
Shares the human + wonder thread
69% genome match
An Immense World
Ed Yong · 2022
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
83% genome match
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson · 2017
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
69% genome match
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
Carlo Rovelli · 2014
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
69% genome match
Other Minds
Peter Godfrey-Smith · 2016
Shares the human thread
83% genome match
Entangled Life
Merlin Sheldrake · 2020
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
69% genome match
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Bill Bryson · 2003
Shares the wonder + hopeful thread
83% genome match
A Natural History of the Senses
Diane Ackerman · 1990
Shares the wonder thread
69% genome match
World of Wonders
Aimee Nezhukumatathil · 2020
Shares the wonder thread
69% genome match
The thunder tree
Robert Michael Pyle · 1993
Shares the wonder thread
69% genome match
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