Recs if you like Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden...

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.

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. 🪲🌾🦉🌵

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

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!

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

books from parents’ perspectives that acknowledge our current dystopia. suggestions always welcome!

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

Part memoir, part exploration of nature these books tackle environmental themes and/or science through the lens of the author’s life story.

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!

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.

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

Books read by Prose Before Bros, a book club for women of color in PDX

personal, poetic, or literary Black Feminist/Womanist works. suggestions and/or corrections always welcome!

Mix of fiction and non-fiction for those seeking hope, ideas and strength in this ongoing planetary crisis.

Just a collection of books from across the genre spectrum featuring eye-catching flowers on the covers. Suggestions welcome!

I pay for therapy so you don’t have to. Though some of these may convince you to start.

Memoirs that make you sit and think for an hour, a day, a week or maybe forever.

✨I AM A WOMAN IN STEM✨. A little list to celebrate Women in STEM on International Women & Girls in Science day (Feb. 11)!!

A list of books about or featuring growing gardens both magical and real.