Books (mostly fiction) with relationship to place/natural systems as a major theme. Recommendations welcome!
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Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology
Andreas Weber
Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology
Ann Fisher-Wirth
American Primitive
Mary Oliver
Turtle Island
Gary Snyder
The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky (Pulitzer Prize Finalist)
Ellen Meloy
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
Ada Limon
The Summer Book
Tove Jansson
Called by the Hills: A Home in the Himalaya
Anuradha Roy
The Hungry Tide
Amitav Ghosh
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
J. Drew Lanham
The Wall
Marlen Haushofer
The Island of Missing Trees
Elif Shafak
Land
Maggie O'Farrell
Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape
Manchán Magan
When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Irene Solà
Ædnan
Linnea Axelsson
The Seed Keeper
Diane Wilson
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Black Woods, Blue Sky
Eowyn Ivey
Helm
Sarah Hall
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Solar Storms
Linda Hogan
The Living Mountain
Nan Shepherd
The Bear
Andrew Krivak
Angle of Repose
Wallace Stegner
North Woods
Daniel Mason
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