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E for Environment and Earth Day

Celebrate Earth Day on April 22

"In 1970, the first Earth Day inspired 20 million Americans — at the time, 10% of the total population of the United States — to take to the streets, parks and auditoriums to demonstrate against the impacts of 150 years of industrial development which had left a growing legacy of serious human health impacts."  (from The History of Earth Day)

This list contains novels in the eco-fiction genre (fictional tales that reflect important connections, dependencies, and interactions between people and their natural environments) as well as classic nonfiction like Silent Spring by Rachel Carson credited with creating the modern environmetal protection movement.  You'll also find DIY and how-to books to help you live in a more sustainable and environmentally responsible way.


Revised March 2024.


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An (Almost) Zero-Waste Life

by Megean Weldon


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A Bright Future

by Joshua Goldstein


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The Conscious Closet

by Elizabeth Cline


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Crossings : how road ecology is shaping the future of our planet

by Ben Goldfarb


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Damnation Spring

by Ash Davidson


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Eating to extinction

by Dan Saladino


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The Ecology Book

by Tony Juniper


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The End of Eden : wild nature in the age of climate breakdown

by Adam Welz


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The End We Start From

by Megan Hunter


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Fen, Bog & Swamp

by Annie Proulx


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Flight Behavior

by Barbara Kingsolver


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Forest Walking

by Peter Wohlleben


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The Great Displacement

by Jake Bittle


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The Heartbeat of Trees

by Peter Wohlleben


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How Beautiful We Were

by Imbolo Mbue


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Islands of Abandonment

by Cal Flyn


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The Language of Trees

by Katie Holten


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The Last Beekeeper

by Julie Carrick Dalton


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The Light Room

by Kate Zambreno


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The Overstory

by Richard Powers


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Project Hail Mary

by Andy Weir


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The quickening : creation and community at the ends of the Earth

by Elizabeth Rush


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Recipe for Survival

by Dana Hunnes


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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson


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Something New Under the Sun

by Alexandra Kleeman


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The Sustainable Mediterranean Diet Cookbook

by Serena Ball


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Under a White Sky

by Elizabeth Kolbert


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Walden or a Life in the Woods

by Henry David Thoreau


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The world as we knew it

by Amy Brady