a hell yeah to hope
hopeful nonfiction!
created by shanethe_readingrat
last updated May, 2026
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Love the idea of this list but wish it was longer!
I'm looking through my nonfiction reads trying to find recs but couldn't find much š you could add Robin Wall Kimmerer's Gathering Moss if you don't mind multiple books from one author (and personally I like Braiding Sweetgrass more). I read it a few years ago but I wrote this book was hopeful in my review: The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos by Jaime Green.
ty!! iāll make sure to add bothšāāļømain reason the list is short is because i just want to make sure books i add really fit the vibes iām going for. there were more recommendations given in the comments of a club post i made last month, but those i havenāt read yet (exception being You Better Be Lightning) and havenāt gotten to look into them further to make sure they fit this list
Oh for sure! There are a lot of books that are semi-hopeful but not completely so I totally understand you reading them before adding :) I was going to recommend An Immense World by Ed Yong because I feel like it's overall hopeful, but the last chapter goes over human impacts on wildlife that is decidedly NOT š
