Recs if you like Upstream: Selected Essays...

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.

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

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. 🪲🌾🦉🌵

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

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

don’t you love it when poets write novels, nonfiction, memoir! the language they bring!!

ecology-based books—practical, cultural, and whimsical

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

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

Learn more about conservation efforts, environmental science, and wildlife. Contemplate how we humans can interact with nature & help the world around us🌱☀️

Books under 250 pages

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.

Because it simply isn’t spring until you romanticize reading 🧚

for those of us who love to pretend we don't live in a concrete jungle🌞

If you find yourself underneath the trees, unsure which way to turn, take a breath with me.

here to make your brain cells tingle !! stories that unravel and take root in your mind as time goes on

authors that grew up in Ohio or live in Ohio now! all genres