Book lists since founding the Environmental Book Club


2025

January, Becoming Little Shell by Chris La Tray

February, The light eaters by Zoe Schlanger 

March, Parable Of the Talents by Octavia Butler 

April, White Flight by Kevin M Kruse

May, City Limits by Megan Kimble

June, The Vegetarian by Han Kang

July, White Malice by Susan Williams

August, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer

September, We will be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo

October, The Barn by Wright Thompson

November, The Great Displacement By Jake Bittle

December, American War by Omar El Akkad


Recommended

Amy Tan-The backyard bird chronicles by

Olufemi Taiwo- Reconsidering Reparations by

Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe 

Refaat Alareer- If I must die

Ta-Nehisi Coates- The Message

Alison Young- Pandora’s Gamble

Atel Abu Saif- The Drone Eats With Me

2024

January, "Fire Weather" by John Vaillant.
February, "Wild Horse Country" by David Phillips.
March, "Butcher's Crossing" by John Williams.  

April, "Crossings" by Ben Goldfarb
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May, "Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility" by Rebecca Solnit, editor.
June, "Leave The World Behind" by Rumaan Alam
July, “Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold
August, "The Shadow Docket" by Stephen Vladeck
September, “Parable of the Sower,” by Olivia Butler
October, "White Skin Black Fuel" by Andreas Malm
November, "The Insect Crisis" by Oliver Milman
December,  Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neil Huston.

2023

January: Water Always Wins- thriving in an age of drought and deluge by Erica Gies
February: Nomad Century- How climate migration will reshape our world by Gaia Vince
March: Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
April: Under The White Sky- the nature of the future by Elizabeth Kohlbert
May: Regenesis- Feeding the world without devouring the planet by George Monbiot
June: Euphoria by Lily King
July: The Flag The Cross, And The Station Wagon by Bill McKibben. 
August: Rescuing the Planet- protecting half the land to heal the earth by Tony Hiss. 
September: The New Wilderness by Diane Cook
October: There Are No Accidents- the deadly rise injury and disaster, who profits, and who pays the price by Jessie Singer
November: Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman
December: How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue

2022

Jan- Yellowbird by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Feb-  Nature’s Best Hope by Douglas W. Tallamy
Mar- Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel By: Anthony Doerr
April- As Long As Grass Grows by Dina Gilio-Whitaker 
May- Downriver: Into The Future Of Water In The West, by Heather Hansman.
June- Lost Mountain by Anne Coray
July- Doughnut Economics by Kate Raworth
August- Short Circuiting Policy by Leah Cardamore Stokes
Sep- Ramadan Ramsey by Louis Edwards
Oct- Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Nov- Owls of The Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght
Dec- What strange paradise Omar El Akkad

2021

January- Food Fix: How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities and Our Planet, One Bite At A Time by Mark Hyman
February- The Reindeer Chronicles by Judith D. Schwartz. 
March- The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California By Mark Arax
April- The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time by Jonathan Weiner
May- The Omnivore’s Dilema by Michael Pollan
June- The Ministry Of The Future by Kim Stanley RobinsonJuly- Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
August- The Deep: The Hidden Wonders of Our Oceans and How We Can Protect Them, by Alex Rogers (2019).
September- Entangled life- by Merlin Sheldrake
Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness, and Save the Planet - by Paul Stamets (ed), et al.
October- All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis By Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
November- Superman’s Not Coming by Erin Brockovich.
December- Farm City: the education of an urban farmer by Novella Carpenter

2020
January- Feral:  Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life, by George Monbiot.
February- Eager by Ben Goldfarb
March- Cancelled due to Covid.
April- Discussion with Bernie Volterie on Covid-19
May- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
June- Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez
July- Summer break
August- Summer Break
September- Half Earth by E. O. Wilson
October- Inconspicuous Consumption by Tatiana Schlossberg
November- Omega Principle by Paul Greenberg
December- The Stolen Bicycle by Wu Ming-Yi

2019
September- The Great Pivot by Justine Burt
October- Drawdown:  The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, by Paul Hawken
November- “On Fire: the (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal” by Naomi Klein.
December- No meeting


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