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WGMfEF book recommendations
Thu 04 March 2021

Compiled from a recent book recommendation post in the Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends Facebook group. Not thoroughly de-duped or spell-checked yet.

[ edit 2021-03-07: de-duped & alphabetized list ]

  • Bill McKibben - Eaarth
  • Carl Safina - Song for the Blue Ocean
  • Adam Rome - Bulldozer in the Countryside
  • Adrian Forsyth & Ken Miyata - Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rainforests of Central and South America
  • Alan Weisman - The World Without Us
  • Aldo Leopold - A Sand Country Almanac
  • Alexandra Horowitz - On Looking
  • Alexandra Morton - Listening to Whales
  • Amitav Ghosh - The Hungry Tide
  • Andrea Wulf - The Invention of Nature
  • Anne Dillard - Pilgrim At Tinker Creek
  • Anne Ferry - The Art of Naming
  • Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - Buzz Sting Bite
  • Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson - Extraordinary Insects
  • Barbara Kingsolver - Flight Behavior
  • Barbara Kingsolver - Prodigal Summer
  • Barry Lopez - Arctic Dreams
  • Ben Goldfarb - Eager
  • Bernd Heinrich - Mind of the Raven
  • Bill Cronon - Changes in the Land
  • Bill Schutt - Dark Banquet
  • Bryce Andrews - Badluck Way
  • Carin Bondar - Wild Sex
  • Carl Zimmer - At the Water's Edge: Fish with Fingers, Whales with Legs
  • Carl Zimmer - Parasite Rex
  • Carol Kaesuk Yoon - Naming Nature
  • Chip Walter - Last Ape Standing
  • Christine Byl - Dirt Work
  • Dan Egan - The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
  • Dan Richards - Outpost
  • Dave Goulson - A Buzz in the Meadow
  • Dave Goulson - A Sting in the Tale
  • Dave Wallace-Wells - The Uninhabitable Earth
  • David Abram - The Spell of the Sensuous
  • David George Haskell - The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature
  • Diana Kappel-Smith - Desert Time
  • Diane Ackerman - The Moon by Whale Light
  • Diane Ackerman - The Rarest of the Rare
  • Donna Haraway - Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
  • E O Wilson - Biophilia
  • E O Wilson - The Diversity of Life
  • E O Wilson - Letters to a Young Scientist
  • Elizabeth Gilbert - The Signature of All Things
  • Elizabeth J Church - The Atomic Weight of Love
  • Elizabeth Kolbert - The Sixth Extinction
  • Elizabeth Marshall Thomas - The Hidden Life of Deer
  • Elizabeth Royte - The Tapir’s Morning Bath
  • Elizabeth Rush - Rising
  • Ellen Meloy - The Anthropology of Turquoise
  • Ellen Meloy - Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
  • Ellen Morris Bishop - In Search of Ancient Oregon
  • Eric Rutkow - American Canopy
  • Eva Saulitis - Into Great Silence
  • Farley Mowat - Never Cry Wolf
  • Farley Mowat - Sea of Slaughter
  • Gary Ferguson - The Eight Master Lessons of Nature
  • George Monbiot - Feral
  • Hannah Hinchman - Little Things in a Big Country
  • Henry Nicholls - The Galapagos
  • Ian McAllister - Following the Last Wild Wolves
  • Jack E Davis - The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea
  • James A Estes - Serendipity
  • James Aldred - The Man Who Climbs Trees
  • Jane Goodall - Hope for Animals and Their World
  • Janisse Ray - Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
  • Jay Shuler - Had I the Wings: The Friendship of Bachman and Audubon
  • Jennifer Ackerman - The Genius of Birds
  • Jessica Lofthouse - Off to the Dales
  • Joanna Macey - Active hope
  • John Grant Fuller - The Poison That Fell From The Sky
  • John L Read - Among the Pigeons
  • John Steinbeck & Edward F Ricketts - Sea of Cortez
  • John Valliant - The Golden Spruce
  • John Wright - The Naming of the Shrew
  • Jordan Fisher Smith - Engineering Eden
  • Juli Berwald - Spineless
  • Julia Butterfly Hill - The Legacy of Luna
  • Kate Marianchild - Secrets of the Oak Woodlands
  • Kathleen Dean Moore - Holdfast
  • Kathleen Dean Moore - Wild Comfort
  • Kerri Andrews - Wanderers
  • Lara Maiklem - Mudlarking
  • Lawrence Anthony - The Elephant Whisperer
  • Lucy Cooke - The Unexpected Truth about Animals
  • Maja Lund - The History of Bees
  • Marie Winn - Red-Tails in Love
  • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - Cross Creek
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas - The Everglades: River of Grass
  • Mark Arax - The Dreamt Land
  • Mark Kurlanksy - Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
  • Mark Seal - Wildflower
  • Marty Crump - Headless males make great lovers & other unusual natural histories
  • Mary Power - The Serengeti Rules
  • Matt Simon - The Wasp That Brainwashed The Caterpillar
  • Menno Schilthuizen - Darwin Comes to Town
  • Merlin Tuttle - The Secret Lives of Bats
  • Michael Lowy - Ecosocialism: A Radical Alternative to Capitalist Catastrophe
  • Miles A Powell - Vanishsing America
  • Mireya Mayor - Pink boots and a Machete
  • Monte Reel - Between Man and Beast
  • Nate Blakeslee - The Wolf
  • Nicholas Evans - The Loop
  • Nicholas Harberd - Seed to Seed
  • Nick Pyenson - Spying on Whales
  • Oliver Sacks - The Island of the Colorblind
  • Olivia Judson - Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation: The Definitive Guide to the Evolutionary Biology of Sex
  • Patrick Barkham - The Butterfly Isles
  • Paul Rosolie - Mother of God
  • Paul S Martin - Twilight of the Mammoths
  • Pauline Gumbs - Undrowned
  • Peter S Knudtson - Wisdom of the Elders
  • Rachel Carson - Edge of the Sea
  • Rachel Carson - Silent Spring
  • Rachel Carson - Under the Sea Wind
  • Renee Askins - Shadow Mountain
  • Richard Dawkins - The Greatest Show on Earth
  • Richard Kerridge - Cold Blood
  • Richard Mabey - The Cabaret of Plants
  • Richard Mabey - Weeds: in defense of natures most unloved plants by
  • Richard Preston - The Wild Trees
  • Rick McIntyre - The Reign of Wolf 21
  • Robert M Sapolsky - A Primate's Memoir
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer - Braiding Sweetgrass
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer - Gathering Moss
  • Roderick Frazier Nash - Wilderness and the American Mind
  • Roger Deakin - Wildwood
  • Ronald Wright - A Short History of Progress
  • Scott Weidensaul - Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Wild Soul
  • Stephanie Feldstein - The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World
  • Stephen Jay Gould - Wonderful Life
  • Stephen R Palumbi & Carolyn Sotka - The Death & Life of Monterey Bay
  • Steve Brusatte - The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs.
  • Susan Cerulean - Coming to Pass
  • Susan Cerulean - I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
  • T Delene Beeland - The Secret World of Red Wolvers
  • Tanya Tagaq - Split Tooth
  • Tempest Williams - When Women Were Birds
  • Terry Gucker - Wild by Nature
  • Terry Tempest Williams - The Hour of Land
  • Thomas McNamee - The Return of the Wolf to Yellowstone
  • Tim Flannery - Among the Islands
  • Tim Flannery - Here on Earth
  • Tim Flannery - The Eternal Frontier
  • Tim Flannery - The Future Eaters
  • Tom Springer - Looking for hickories
  • Tristan Gooley - The Lost Art of Reading Nature's Signs
  • Will Harland - Untamed: The Wildest Woman in America
  • William K Stevens - Miracle Under The Oaks
  • William W Warner - Beautiful Swimmers
  • Aimee Nezhukumatathil - World of Wonders
  • Barbara Kingsolver - Flight Behavior
  • Barbara Kingsolver - Unsheltered
  • Ben Mezrich - Woolly
  • Bernd Heinrich - Life Everlasting
  • Bert Holldobler & EO Wilson - The Leafcutter Ants
  • Bryce Andrews - Down from the Mountain
  • Cynthia Barnett - Mirage: florida and the vanishing water of the southeast
  • Daniel Quinn - Ishmael
  • David Baron - The Beast in the Garden
  • David George Gordon - The Secret World of Slugs and Snails
  • David George Haskell - The Songs of Trees
  • Delia Owens - Where the Crawdads Sing
  • Derek Gow - Bringing Back the Beaver
  • Douglas H Chadwick - A Beast the Colour of Winter
  • Douglas H Chadwick - The Wolverine Way
  • Douglas W. Tallamy - Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
  • Eduardo Kohn - How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human
  • Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
  • Else Poulsen - Smiling Bears
  • Emily Voigt - The Dragon Behind the Glass
  • Gavin Thurston - Journeys in the Wild: The Secret Life of a Cameraman
  • Helen Macdonald - H is for Hawk
  • Hope Jahren - Lab Girl
  • Isabella Tree - Wilding
  • Jeffrey A Lockwood - The Infested Mind
  • Jennifer Bové (ed) - A Mile in Her Boots: Women Who Work in the Wild
  • Jill Heinerth - Into the Planet
  • John Muir - The Eight Wilderness Discovery Books
  • Karsten Heuer - Being Caribou
  • Kevin van Tighem - Homeward Wolf
  • Kirk Wallace Johnson - The Feather Thief
  • Kristin Ohlson - The Soil Will Save us
  • L ewis Thomas - The Lives of A Cell
  • Laura A Ogden - Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades
  • Leigh Calvez - The Breath of a Whale
  • Leigh Calvez - The Hidden Lives of Owls
  • Lisa Margonelli - Spineless
  • Mark A Simmons - Killing Keiko
  • Mark Elbroch - The Cougar Conundrum
  • Mark Kenyon - That Wild Country
  • Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life
  • Michael Pollan - The Botany of Desire
  • Noah Strycker - Thing with Feathers
  • One R Pagan - Strange Survivors
  • Patricia Wiltshire - Traces: The memoir of a forensic scientist and criminal investigator
  • Patrik Svensson - The Book of Eels
  • Peter Godfrey-Smith - Metazoa
  • Peter Laufer - Dreaming of the Turtle
  • Peter Wohlleben - The Hidden Life of Trees
  • Rachel Love Nuwer - Poached
  • Richard Powers - The Overstory
  • Richard Preston - The Wild Trees
  • Rick McIntyre - The Rise of Wolf 8
  • Rob Dunn - Never Home Alone
  • Robert Moor - On Trails
  • Ross Barnett - The Missing Lynx
  • Ruth Kissinger - Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
  • Saral Sarkar - Eco-socialism or Eco-capitalism?
  • Stephen Croall and Willian Rankin - Ecology for Beginners
  • Sy Montgomery - How to Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals
  • Sy Montgomery - The Soul of an Octopus
  • Tao Orion - Beyond the War on Invasive Species
  • William Hartston - Sloths
  • William Stolzenburg - Rat Island
  • William Stolzenburg - Where the Wild Things Were