Recs if you like Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead...

Nature is Fluid & Interconnected: A perspective blending Queer Theory (challenging norms around gender/sexuality) with Ecology (the study of relationships in nature). Queer ecology questions assumptions that human norms (like heterosexuality or fixed binaries) are the only "natural" way. It invites us to see nature, ourselves, and our relationships with more nuance and complexity.

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.

an invitation to pause, to breathe, to notice and adore the little things around you. (recs welcome and do not have to be nature-themed)

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. 🪲🌾🦉🌵

books that engage with water as a way to explore migration, multispecies kinship, race, capitalism, transatlantic slavery, and more. stories that take place in, on, or around the water. coastlines, swamps, rivers, maritime histories, and the oceanic.

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.

Culture and history outside of the "western world". Recommendations welcome! :)

Books about climate change. Confronting this world so we can reimagine a new one🌍

Either by or about Indigenous American, Hawaiian, Aboriginal people, etc. (with an emphasis on the supernatural and folklore just because that’s my fav) I am not Indigenous so I would love suggestions and comments!

Indigenous non-fiction from Abya Yala|Turtle Island

These are books by indigenous authors from around the globe. Mind you, this list is created by a white / European person, so please always also seek out recommendations from indigenous creators. List in progress, recommendations very welcome!

I'm coming at this from a Canadian Metis point of view and I welcome other suggestions for the list.

the us will be excluded from this list as I will make one for the 50 states!

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

Mostly non-fiction books centered on decolonizing food access and land stewardship.

Recommendations and feedback encouraged! I have not read all of the books listed.

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

For the lovers

Transformation. Destruction. Renewal. Water holds significance symbolism throughout literature. Take a DIVE into books where water elements play a DEEP role.

Niche non-fiction to open your mind to a world in specifics