Recs if you like How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals...

essay collections that reflect on delight, joy, and wonderment. and that inspire readers to do the same!

Books that are part memoir part another genre: in a way that blends multiple mediums and/or themes in unique and engaging ways. Magical, explosive and memorable narratives expressed with creativity and depth. Books that inspire me to write more.

🦅🦜🦢🐧🦉🦩🐦‍⬛ Books about ✨BIRDS!!!✨ beautiful, strange, silly, magical creatures.

Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦‍⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄

A collection of titles that all start with "how to" that aren't actually how-to guides...suggestions welcome!

Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.

Fighting for social and planetary justice.

Nonfiction books to understand our fellow animals and, through them, ourselves

Books about cephalopods (octopuses, squid, cuttlefish!)

Memoir & adjacent nonfiction making sense of personal experience — bodies, minds, whole selves — through the lens of the natural world. Subject matter includes illness, identity, relationships, emotion, and more.

17th-century plate found in a London sewer

Touch grass this season and learn about the curious, chaotic, and down right cool world around you

Books that explore the planet we live on, from its tiniest creatures to its greatest questions.

Shift the daily slog with this diverse list of books that lean on wonder in the natural world. My 2026 curriculum to reignite my wonder and love for the natural world

kenopsia; (n.) The haunting emptiness of a place once filled with life but now eerily quiet.. 🌻 ellipsism; (n.) A deep sadness from realizing you'll never know the full story of history or the future.. 🌒

Pair with "Level 7 – Exploring Your World" book.