Our eco-reading list explores conservation and the climate crisis from scientific, social, political, and personal perspectives.
By Gabriella Sotelo
Treehugger: 10 Must-Read Environmental Books Unlisted
Created by tk
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Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
5 stars
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
4 stars
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The …
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The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
4 stars
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, …
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The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
3 stars
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming is a 2019 book by David Wallace-Wells about the consequences of global warming. It …
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Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
4 stars
Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink …
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An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
With this book, the author, former Vice President of the United States, Al Gore brings together leading-edge research from top …
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No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
4 stars
'Everything needs to change. And it has to start today'
In August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided …
