Things in Nature Merely GrowNew · Memoir, Nonfiction, Grief
Things in Nature Merely Grow
2025 · 192 pages · Nonfiction
83
New
★ 4.32 on Goodreads · 20K ratings
≈ 5 hours to read · about 10 days at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Memoir) winner (2026). 4.32★ from 20K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
83Must-Read Score
- Critics67 out of 100 · counts 35%+27
- Readers68 out of 100 · counts 50%+39
- Buzz100 out of 100 · counts 15%+17
Where it ranks
- #3 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #5 of the 730 new books we rank
- #14 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (Memoir) winner (2026)
Shortlisted
- National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2025)
- Goodreads Choice (memoir autobiography) finalist (2025)
Reads as
Moving, True story
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