Recs if you like When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World...

Nature is Fluid & Interconnected: A perspective blending Queer Theory (challenging norms around gender/sexuality) with Ecology (the study of relationships in nature). Queer ecology questions assumptions that human norms (like heterosexuality or fixed binaries) are the only "natural" way. It invites us to see nature, ourselves, and our relationships with more nuance and complexity.

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.

to lose my mind and find my soul. John Muir

nonfiction about trees and forests, and their overall ecosystems, histories, meanings

Non-fiction that focuses on plants. Grow that brain🌻

All the books on the Conservation and Nature Writing longlists for the 2026 Wainwright Prize. (non-fiction)

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.

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)

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!

Atmospheric novels that feel like stepping into another country, another era, another interior life.