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Earth Day: Featured Books

Recommended books and films for learning about the environment and sustainability.

Nonfiction

Cover art for There Is No Planet B

Cover art for How Change Happens

Cover art for Flight from Grace

Cover art for Beloved Beasts

Cover art for Braiding Sweetgrass

Cover art for How Are We Going to Explain This?

Cover art for Pollution Is Colonialism

Cover art for Decolonial Ecology

Cover art for The Challenge for Africa

Cover art for The World Without Us

Cover art for Wild Hope

Cover art for What We Know about Climate Change

Cover art for The Uninhabitable Earth

Cover art for Things We Could Design

Cover art for Slick Policy

Cover art for Rain

Cover art for Rachel Carson: Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment (LOA #307)

Cover art for A People's History of Environmentalism in the United States

Cover art for On Fire

Cover art for The New Climate War

Cover art for The Nature of Nature

Cover art for Lost Woods

Cover art for Is Wildness Over?

Cover art for Field Notes from a Catastrophe

Cover art for Environmental Ethics

Cover art for The Ecocentrists

Cover art for Desert Solitaire

Cover art for A Conservationist Manifesto

Cover art for Climate Change, Literature, and Environmental Justice

Cover art for The Botany of Desire

Cover art for - A Book of Bees

Cover art for Blood and Earth

Cover art for - Beyond Earth Day

Cover art for Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Cover art for American Pests

Cover art for American Earth: Environmental Writing since Thoreau (LOA #182)

Cover art for - Agroecology in Action

Cover art for Nature's Best Hope

Cover of Gaia's Garden

Cover of Garbology

Cover of Urban Farms

Cover of In Defense of Food

Biographies

Cover art for Nature's Allies

Cover art for Beatrix Potter

Cover art for The Thoreau You Don't Know

Cover art for Lincoln and the Natural Environment

Cover art for Rachel Carson and Her Sisters

Cover art for A Passion for Nature

Cover art for Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes

Cover art for Rachel Carson

Cover art for Aldo Leopold and the Ecological Conscience

Memoirs and Autobiographies

cover art Oil and Honey

cover art Legacy of Luna

cover art Unbowed

cover art Beyond Innocence

cover art Africa in My Blood

Cover of Farm City

Cover of No Impact Man

Fiction

cover art The Overstory

cover art Flight Behavior

A Girl of the Limberlost

cover art Flood

cover art Anthropocene Fictions

cover art Parable of the Sower

cover art Oryx and Crake

cover art The Shell Collector

cover art The Road

cover art Shadow Country

cover art The Drowned World

cover art Odds Against Tomorrow

cover art A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories

cover art Yellow Earth

cover art The Fifth Season

cover art An Unkindness of Ghosts

cover art Salvage the Bones

cover art Damnation Spring

Ecopoetry

cover art That Winter the Wolf Came

cover art Black Nature

cover art Nature Poem

cover art Sea Change

cover art In Full Velvet

cover art HERE: Poems for the Planet

Children's Books

cover art - We Are Water Protectors

cover art - Friends of the Earth

cover art - Go Green for Earth Day

cover art Mama Miti

cover art thirst

cover art Mii Maanda Ezhi-Gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know

cover art Environmentalist Rachel Carson

cover art - The Water Princess

cover art - Rainbow Weavery

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