Recs if you like H Is for Hawk...

All of his picks since 2008, both summer reading lists and yearly round-ups.

Birds are amazing! You know who loves birds and facts about birds? Brennan Lee Mulligan. You know who loves Brennan Lee Mulligan? Me! I mean... Everybody! Is this my attempt at luring Brennan Lee Mulligan to Pagebound? Maybe. Can we all learn some cool bird facts along the way? DEFINITELY!

Books about death, dying, grief and what remains.

Books where grief is personified, given a body, a voice, or a shape, to explore how loss lives alongside us.

books with birds as main characters, books about the habits of birds and books on birding

fiction and non fiction

Grief as one of the main topics

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

A list of books essential to understanding and appreciating the natural world. Don’t forget to bask in the sunshine like an ectotherm ☀️ you deserve it!

In order from #1 (My Brilliant Friend) to 100 (Tree of Smoke)

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

Collecting animals by reading books about them.

non-fiction books about personal experiences and connections made with wild animals. books were chosen based on the relationship between author and animal, mostly from rehabilitation perspectives or what we can learn from them.

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

Birding is increasing in popularity, and we should do our best to learn about our feathered friends to care for the Earth

A list published in 2024 by the New York Times, as voted on by 503 novelists, poets, critics, and other book lovers—with a little help from the staff of The New York Times Book Review

Ecological philosophy for when life falls apart.

according to the New York Times

Birds on the cover. Why do they all creep me out so much? Extra points if they’re weird/creepy.

Please feel free to add your suggestions/recommendations!

A balance of breezy page-turners with immersive classics and thought-provoking non-fiction.

Ongoing. Fiction and non-fiction exploration of grief: anticipatory, grieving death of a loved one (including pets), loosing pregnancy, etc, and how to live with it.