Recs if you like Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden...
Blending Memoirs with Research, Poetry, Culture
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.
Get those hands dirty: archaeology, soil and earth
WHAT LIES BENEATH US LIES BEFORE US
Books about digging, the ground we walk on and the stories buried underneath our feet. From dinosaurs / paleontology, anthropology, ancient history, archaeology to the soil and geology and all its wonders. Non-fiction only
HRCYED 3.0 x Pagebound Quests (Titles 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 go past the July start date and match at least one of these title prompts: Periodic Table, Familial Terms, Rainbow of Words (also Joseph's coat), Numerical Titles, Titular Counting 5+, Pun in the Title, and First & Last Name in the Title. Recommendations welcome!
Radical Intersectional Ecologies💚
Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese) through radical BIPOC, queer, feminist, anti-capitalist, disability ecological perspectives. 🪲🌾🦉🌵
Ecology, Biology, Nature💚
Nonfiction books exploring the natural world and our “place in the family of things” (Mary Oliver, Wild Geese). 🐦⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄
Parenting Against the Apocalypse
books from parents’ perspectives that acknowledge our current dystopia. suggestions always welcome!
Branching Out - Planty Non-Fiction
Non-fiction that focuses on plants. Grow that brain🌻
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!
As Mentioned In The Comfort of Crows
These books have all been quoted in Margaret Renkl's The Comfort of Crows. Although some poems quoted in The Comfort of Crows are not included in this list.
Prose Before Bros [book club]
Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX
Mothers’ Gardens
personal, poetic, or literary Black Feminist/Womanist works. suggestions and/or corrections always welcome!
Hopecore Solarpunk
Mix of fiction and non-fiction for those seeking hope, ideas and strength in this ongoing planetary crisis.
Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking.
Just a collection of books from across the genre spectrum featuring eye-catching flowers on the covers. Suggestions welcome!
Books I Discussed With My Therapist
I pay for therapy so you don’t have to. Though some of these may convince you to start.
In my own words - Powerful Memoirs
Memoirs that make you sit and think for an hour, a day, a week or maybe forever.
Bunsen Burner ✨ ON!
✨I AM A WOMAN IN STEM✨. A little list to celebrate Women in STEM on International Women & Girls in Science day (Feb. 11)!!
Growing Gardens
A list of books about growing gardens both magical and real.
