Writing about the intersection of humans and land? Here, in no particular order, are a few recommended reading lists.
NATURE WRITING
Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire.
Anzaldua, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods.
Carson, Rachel. Under the Sea Wind.
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
Erlich, Gretel. The Solace of Open Spaces.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Almanac.
Muir, John. My First Summer in the Sierra.
Norris, Kathleen. Dakota: A Spiritual Geography.
Oliver, Mary. Owls and Other Fantasies.
Thoreau, Henry David. Walden.
Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place.
Williams, Terry Tempest. When Women Were Birds.
ENVIRONMENTAL FICTION & CREATIVE NONFICTION
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang.
Atwood, Margaret. Oryx and Crake.
Bacigalupi, Paolo. The Windup Girl.
Bacigalupi, Paolo. Ship Breaker.
Boyd, Daniel. Carbon.
Butler, Octavia. Parable of the Sower.
Castillo, Ana. So Far From God.
Conners, Philip. Fire Season: Field Notes From a Wilderness Lookout.
Crossan, Sarah. Breathe.
Dean, Claire. Girlwood.
DeFelice, Cynthia. Lostman's River.
DeFreitas, Susan. Hot Season.
DeLillo, Don. White Noise.
Falkner, Brian. The Tomorrow Code.
Gauthier, Gail. Saving the Planet & Stuff.
George, Jean Craighead. My Side of the Mountain.
Goldsmith, Suzanne. Washashore.
Gonzalez, Jovita. Caballero.
Hautman, Pete. Rash.
Hayes, Nick. Rime of the Modern Mariner.
Haynes, Diane. Flight or Fight.
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot.
Hiaasen, Carl. Flush.
Hogan, Linda. Solar Storms.
Hughes, Ted. The Iron Woman.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal Summer.
Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster.
LeGuin, Ursula. The Word for World is Forest.
London, Jack. The Call of the Wild.
Lynch, Jim. The Highest Tide.
MacDonald, Helen. H is for Hawk.
McDonald, Ian. River of Gods.
Mulligan, Andy. Trash.
Norbury, Katharine. The Fish Ladder: A Journey Upstream.
Park, Linda Sue. A Long Walk to Water.
Paulsen, Gary. Hatchet.
Powers, Richard. The Overstory.
Proulx, Annie. Barkskins.
Ralston, Aron. Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
Ray, Janisse. Ecology of a Cracker Childhood.
Rivers, Karen. Before We Go Extinct.
Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars.
Schwartz, Dan. No Cure for Nature.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony.
Smith, Roland. Peak.
Smith, Sherri. Orleans.
Squarzoni, Phillippe. Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through the Science.
Stracher, Cameron. The Water Wars.
Strayed, Cheryl. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail.
Theroux, Marcel. Far North.
Tuomainen, Antti. The Healer.
VanderMeer, Jeff. Annihilation.
VanderMeer, Jeff. Authority.
VanderMeer, Jeff. Acceptance.
Viramontes, Helena Maria. Under the Feet of Jesus.
Weyn, Suzanne. Empty.
ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring.
Harr, Jonathon. A Civil Action.
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
McKibben, Bill. The End of Nature.
Moore, Kathleen Dean. Great Tide Rising: Towards Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change.
Pollan, Michael. Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals.
Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation.
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle.
Weisman, Alan. The World Without Us.
ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHOLOGIES
Brorby, Taylor. Fracture: Essays, Poems, and Stories on Fracking in America.
Dungy, Camille. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry.
Martin, Mark. I'm With the Bears.
McKibben, Bill. American Earth.
Stegner, Lynn. West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West.
Woodbury, M. Winds of Change: Short Stories About Climate Change.
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.
Diamond, Jared: Guns, Germs, & Steel.
Finney, Carolyn. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans and the Outdoors.
Jensen, Derrick. A Language Older Than Words.
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants.
Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.
Kostigen, Thomas M. You Are Here: Exposing the Link Between What We Do and What That Does to Our Planet.
Lavers, Chris. Why Elephants Have Big Ears: Understanding Patterns of Life on Earth.
Louv, Richard. Last Child in the Woods.
Wilson, E. O. Biophilia.
Wohlleban, Peter. The Hidden Life of Trees.
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