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- 2023 PEN America/EO Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing
- Best Book Lists 2022 by Apple Books, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair, Times Literary Supplement, KCRW, KQED
- Top pick by Next Big Idea Book Club, 2022
- Editor’s Pick for Best Memoirs, Amazon
- Audible Bestseller
- Top summer read by J.P. Morgan
- Goodreads Choice Award nominee
- 2017 Audie Award, Best Nonfiction
- LA Times Book Prize
- 2013 Audie Award, Best Nonfiction
- Notable book of 2012 by the New York Times
