Recs if you like Upstream: Selected Essays...
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.
✨BIRDS!!!✨
🦅🦜🦢🐧🦉🦩🐦⬛ Books about ✨BIRDS!!!✨ beautiful, strange, silly, magical creatures.
Lucy Dacus Recommendations 💛
Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.
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). 🐦⬛🦋🌱🪸🦊🪷🪼🍄
Something in the water🌊🦞🪼🪸
Nonfiction books exploring water and the life it sustains. Oceans, lakes, fish, and more.
prose by poets
don’t you love it when poets write novels, nonfiction, memoir! the language they bring!!
earth and weeds and how it all goes
ecology-based books—practical, cultural, and whimsical
Finding Hope and Whimsy
Books that feel like a warm hug and leave us feeling hopeful and whimsical, a little light amidst the dark. For the days we cannot have any more reality but instead need a cup of fluffy dreams and a pick-me-up and some optimism for the future
remembering nature 🌅
Books to reconnect to nature and the fact that we are just a part of it. Both in the most beautiful and terrible ways 💚☀️🦋🐾🌿🪴🍀🌺🌻🌈 More non-fiction than fiction
Must-read nature & environment books
Learn more about conservation efforts, environmental science, and wildlife. Contemplate how we humans can interact with nature & help the world around us🌱☀️
Short n’ (not necessarily) Sweet
Books under 250 pages
touch grass
This list centers around books that explore the natural world, and our place in it. So slow down and smell the roses, touch a tree, take a breath.
romanticizing spring
Because it simply isn’t spring until you romanticize reading 🧚
memoirs to feel like you actually go outside🌱🪺🪻
for those of us who love to pretend we don't live in a concrete jungle🌞
Women and Water
Help, I'm lost in the woods!
If you find yourself underneath the trees, unsure which way to turn, take a breath with me.
intellectually deliciousss
here to make your brain cells tingle !! stories that unravel and take root in your mind as time goes on
spring reads
books that are like a breath of fresh air or based in nature, or are full of exuberance, sweetness, mischief, long ramblings, and childlike fun
poems, poetry, and plays
