Entangled Life

#2 in Nature & environment

Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake

First published 2020Original language EN

8.48.4 / 10
Score out of 10235 ratingsConfidence 61%: this much of the score is the readers’ own
368
Pages
about 7 h
Reading time

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About the book

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures is a 2020 non-fiction book on mycology by British biologist Merlin Sheldrake. His first book, it was published by Random House on 12 May 2020. Among the several accolades the book and author have received was the 2021 Royal Society Prize for Science Books.

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Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.6 across 235 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 61% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Nature & environment average of 8.1. That is how 8.4 comes out.

SourceAverageRatingsWeight
Open Library9.012 5%
Hardcover8.6223 95%

Reader voices

The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).

  • “I got more and more interested as the book continued. I've learned so much more about this area of nature!”

    ★ 4/5SleepyShadows on Hardcover

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How long is Entangled Life?

It has 368 pages — longer than 64% of the ranked books in Nature & environment.

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