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