| 2025 | The Place of Tides | The New Yorker Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Also Recommended | |
| 2025 | The Place of Tides | NPR Books We Love source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books We Love | |
| 2024 | The Place of Tides | Financial Times Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Literary non-fiction | |
| 2021 | English Pastoral: An Inheritance | Wainwright Prize source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Winner · Nature Writing | |
| 2021 | English Pastoral: An Inheritance | The Orwell Prize (book prizes) source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Shortlist · Political Writing | |
| 2021 | English Pastoral | Rathbones Folio Prize source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Longlist · Literature | |
| 2021 | Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey | NPR Books We Love source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Books We Love | |
| 2020 | English Pastoral | The Telegraph Best Books of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books | |
| 2016 | The Shepherd's Life | Wainwright Prize source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Shortlist · Nature Writing | |
| 2015 | The Shepherd's Life | Waterstones Book of the Year source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Shortlist · Book of the Year | |
| 2015 | The Shepherd's Life: Modern Dispatches From An Ancient Landscape | Chicago Public Library Best of the Best source ↗ (opens in a new tab) | Selection · Best Books: Nonfiction | |