[3] The Forest Unseen: A Year's Watch in Nature was winner of the 2013 National Academies Communication Award for Best Book,[4] finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction,[5] runner-up for the 2013 PEN/E.

[8] Outside Magazine listed the book among those that "shaped the decade", stating that it "injects much-needed vibrancy into the stuffy world of nature writing".

[16] It was also a Finalist for the 2023 PEN/ E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and an Editor's Choice and a Recommended Paperback in the New York Times book review.

[17][18] Cynthia Barnett reviewing in The New York Times, wrote of the book that it "affirms Haskell as a laureate for the earth".

Journalist Paul Kvinta's profile of Haskell[21] in Outside Magazine was included in the 2018 anthology Best American Science and Nature Writing, edited by Sam Kean.

In the same section of Sounds Wild and Broken, he states "In these pages, I make the case that the acoustic crisis has four main pressing and intersecting dimensions...loss of ecological habitat and attacks on human rights..the nightmare of industrial sound in the oceans...the inequities of noise pollution in cities...failures to listen to and celebrate the storied sensory richness of our world.

I will donate at lest half of my net proceeds from this book to organizations that work to heal and reverse these aggressions, fragmentations, and loses."