Books with an environmental theme
Here is a list of books that relate to nature, science, or the environment. Happy reading!
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A Green History of the World by Clive Pointing
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
A Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
A Sand Country Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Atmosphere, Climate, and Change by Thomas Graedal and Paul Crutzen
A Year’s Watch in Nature by David Haskell
Beyond Malthus by Lester Brown
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Collapse by Jared Diamond
ContamiNation: My Quest to Survive in a Toxic World by McKay Jenkins
Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Death in the Marsh by Tom Harris
Deep Ecology by Bill Devall
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Earth in Mind by David Orr
Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
Earth Under Siege by Richard P. Turco
Ecology, Economics, and Ethics: The Broken Circle by F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert
Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis
Eco Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement by Rik Scarce
Encounter With the Archdruid by John McPhee
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes
Green Delusions by Martin Lewis
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by Davis Brower and Steve Chapple
Life in Balance: Humanity and Biodiversity by Niles Eldredge
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Williams Rees
Our Stolen Future, by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
Planetwalker by John Francis
Road Ecology by Richard T. T. Forman (Editor), Daniel Sperling (Editor)
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
The Story of Earth by Robert M. Hazen
Sustainable Planet, a collection of essays on changing our ways
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garret
The Control of Nature by John McPhee
The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars by Michael Mann
The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George
The Future of Life by E.O. Wilson
The Limits to Growth 2nd Edition by Donnella Meadows
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Stork and The Plow by Paul Ehrlich
The World is Blue: How our Fate and the Ocean’s are One by Sylvia Earle
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic by Craig Timberg
Tinkering With Eden by Kim Todd
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs by Kathryn Phillips
Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Wilderness Bill of Rights by William O. Douglas
Wolves of Isle Royale by Rolk Peterson
World on the Edge by Lester Brown
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A Green History of the World by Clive Pointing
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
A Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall
A Sand Country Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Atmosphere, Climate, and Change by Thomas Graedal and Paul Crutzen
A Year’s Watch in Nature by David Haskell
Beyond Malthus by Lester Brown
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water by Marc Reisner
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Collapse by Jared Diamond
ContamiNation: My Quest to Survive in a Toxic World by McKay Jenkins
Crimes Against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Death in the Marsh by Tom Harris
Deep Ecology by Bill Devall
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Earth in Mind by David Orr
Earth in the Balance by Al Gore
Earth Under Siege by Richard P. Turco
Ecology, Economics, and Ethics: The Broken Circle by F. Herbert Bormann and Stephen R. Kellert
Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis
Eco Warriors: Understanding the Radical Environmental Movement by Rik Scarce
Encounter With the Archdruid by John McPhee
Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Edward Humes
Green Delusions by Martin Lewis
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian Fossey
Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen
In the Shadow of Man by Jane Goodall
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Let the Mountains Talk, Let the Rivers Run by Davis Brower and Steve Chapple
Life in Balance: Humanity and Biodiversity by Niles Eldredge
Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth by Williams Rees
Our Stolen Future, by Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers
Planetwalker by John Francis
Road Ecology by Richard T. T. Forman (Editor), Daniel Sperling (Editor)
Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver
The Story of Earth by Robert M. Hazen
Sustainable Planet, a collection of essays on changing our ways
The Coming Plague by Laurie Garret
The Control of Nature by John McPhee
The Diversity of Life by E. O. Wilson
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars by Michael Mann
The Hydrogen Economy by Jeremy Rifkin
The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters by Rose George
The Future of Life by E.O. Wilson
The Limits to Growth 2nd Edition by Donnella Meadows
The Solace of Open Spaces by Gretel Ehrlich
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Stork and The Plow by Paul Ehrlich
The World is Blue: How our Fate and the Ocean’s are One by Sylvia Earle
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic by Craig Timberg
Tinkering With Eden by Kim Todd
Tracking the Vanishing Frogs by Kathryn Phillips
Twinkie, Deconstructed by Steve Ettlinger
Walden; Or, Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau
A Wilderness Bill of Rights by William O. Douglas
Wolves of Isle Royale by Rolk Peterson
World on the Edge by Lester Brown