Recs if you like When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World...
Part Of, Not Distinct From
Books dedicated to exploring how nature is all around us no matter how we try to fight it! Whether right outside our door, within our microbiomes, or deeper into our cities, nature will find us. After all, we are a part of it, not distinct from it.
Into the Forest I Go
to lose my mind and find my soul. John Muir
nonfiction about trees and forests, and their overall ecosystems, histories, meanings
Branching Out - Planty Non-Fiction
Non-fiction that focuses on plants. Grow that brain🌻
The Wainwright Prize Longlists 2026
All the books on the Conservation and Nature Writing longlists for the 2026 Wainwright Prize. (non-fiction)
HRCYED 3.0 x Pagebound Quests (Covers Edition)
If we are going to do Qwordy's the Hardest Reading Challenge You'll Ever Do 3.0 - we should probably get some Pagebound badges along the way! I'm specifically going to be adding books from Quests and readalongs that I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.
Mother Nature: Women Scientists at Work
Books by female ecologists, biologists, naturalists, environmental activists, and science writers from well-researched nonfiction to reflective memoirs.
(Keywords: science, nature, plants, animals, insects, ecology, climate change, biology, ocean, STEM)
Crossroads: where memoirs meet science
One of my favourite niche genres is when memoirs are mixed with science, (or the other way around!— books about science that incorporate parts of the author’s life. The science also tends to be more accessible than in typical academic writing. So let’s read some books about people and their favourite science! P.S. please feel free to suggest more titles to add!
If you want to disappear for a while
Atmospheric novels that feel like stepping into another country, another era, another interior life.
Nature & Ecology: The Living World
An expanded list inspired by Queer Ecology to explore the secret lives of plants, the intelligence of animals, fungal networks, tiny creatures, and the ecosystems we share.
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