An expanded list inspired by Queer Ecology to explore the secret lives of plants, the intelligence of animals, fungal networks, tiny creatures, and the ecosystems we share.
created by EsotericHoe
last updated November, 2026
The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness (Paradigm)
Donna J. Haraway
Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science
Jessica Hernandez
Upstream: Selected Essays
Mary Oliver
When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Beronda L. Montgomery
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology
David Abram
Boglands: The Hidden World of Earth's Most Extraordinary Ecosystems
Merritt R. Turetsky
Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World
Richard Louv
Tending the Vines: Black Abundance in Eight Plants
Ashia S. Ajani
Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life’s Greatest Collaborations
Rowan Hooper
Concrete Botany: The Ecology of Plants in the Age of Human Disturbance
Joey Santore
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
Suzanne Simard
Deep Blue Home: An Intimate Ecology of Our Wild Ocean
Julia Whitty
Fearless, Sleepless, Deathless: What Fungi Taught Me about Nourishment, Poison, Ecology, Hidden Histories, Zombies, and Black Survival
Maria Pinto
Deep Ecology: Living as if Nature Mattered
Bill Devall
To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships
Sophie Pavelle
Weeds: In Defense of Nature's Most Unloved Plants
Richard Mabey
The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology
Eric Lee-Mäder
Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
The Democracy of Species (Green Ideas)
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
Thomas Halliday
Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
Mary Siisip Geniusz
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth
Zoë Schlanger
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed
John Vaillant
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Margaret Renkl
Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Ben Goldfarb
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden
Camille T. Dungy
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