Want to recommend a book for consideration? Please leave a comment here! Keeping book suggestions to this thread helps me keep track of suggestions by containing them to one space.

From the intro thread, books should be: 🌱 Focused on a particular type or a specific plant or fungus 🪴 Engage in ethno/botony, environmental science, mycology, and ecology 🌷 Celebrate the natural world ➡️ Non-Fiction Only

and should not be:

🧑‍🌾 Gardening or plant/medicine dictionary style content 🐞 Heavily focused on animal or bug life 🍅 History of food or ingredients 🔁 Very similar to a title already included ETA: I think we are good on tree and fungus books for now, unless the trees are rare and not in the western world, OR the tree/fungus book is a new release. In general, most books added moving forward will fall into two buckets: touches on a plant/topic/place currently without representation in the quest OR is a new release (2025 or more recent.)

Books can touch on these things, but should not be primarily focused on them. Books also must have some kind of narrative component; please do not recommend dictionary or encyclopedia style books.

Please also be intentional about the balance of author demographics and the ethical considerations of botany. Recommendations that uplift marginalized voices will be prioritized when I am considering additions. In particular, books that highlight these topics from non-western perspectives are of high interest to me. I would love help with more representation from Africa, Polynesia, the Levant & North Africa, South Asia, Central Asia, et all. with a special emphasis on Indigenous voices from these places over white/Europeans studying those areas.

I really do appreciate recommendations - I would love to know why you recommend a book, too, to help me vet titles. I don't promise to add everything but I definitely will consider everything suggested here.

Thanks for helping me make this quest great!

RIP Catherine, you would have loved rage baiting people on the internet

I really like the lovely description of the nature Shelley wrote but can Victor please get to a point like for pages he is just wandering around