Recs if you like The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World...

microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

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

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 I think matches at least one of these cover prompts: craft, food, motion, biomes/landscapes, animals, weather.

Non-fiction books that explore the juiciest parts of the earth...FRUIT! As always, leave your recommendations below :)

🐋 dive into reflective reads that will make you cry, laugh, and reimagine the future of the human condition and our relationship to the natural world.

this list is a diverse mix of science, climate, foodways, migration, social and political organizing, and history that has shaped our present. fans of alie ward's olologies podcast welcome here.

Books about apples or have apples as a central part of the story

From your resident Apple

To getting myself off my jarring Instagram feed, turning the embarrassment at my own naivety into unjudgemental curiosity by taking agency in what I learn about the world (and lowering my anxious resting heart rate); mix of non-fiction and fiction because sometimes novels depict our current world more accurately than a documentary

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

Non-fiction food based books