Book+List

The following is a list of books that would be a good fit for your reading assignment. If you find another that you think would work, clear it with me first.


 * Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Barbara Kingsolver
 * Omnivores Dilemna - Michael Pollan
 * The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
 * The World Without Us - Alan Weisman
 * Hot, Flat, and Crowded - Thomas Friedman
 * What is Natural? Coral Reef Crisis - Jan Sapp
 * A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr
 * Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way we Make Things - William McDonough and Michael Braumgart
 * Coal River - Michael Shnayerson
 * Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
 * Small Wonder - Essays by Barbara Kingsolver
 * Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic - Marla Cone
 * The Hydrogen Economy - Jeremy Rifkin
 * The Population Bomb - Paul Erlich
 * Death in the Marsh - Tom Harris
 * The Burning Season - Andrew Revkin
 * A Sand County Almanac - Aldo Leopold
 * Desert Solitaire - Edward Abbey
 * Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
 * Walden Pond - Henry David Thoreau
 * The Song of the Dodo - David Quammen
 * Of Wolves and Men - Barry Lopez
 * Deep Ecology - Artie Kness
 * Tracing the Vanishing Frogs: An Ecological Mystery - Kathryn Phillips
 * The Naturalist - E.O. Wilson
 * Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water - Mark Reisner
 * Wolves of Isle Royale - Rolf Peterson
 * Night of the Grizzlies - Jak Olsen
 * Encounters with the Archdruid - John McPhee
 * The Control of Nature - John McPhee
 * The Heat is On - Ross Gelbspan
 * Our Stolen Future - Theo Colburn
 * Riddle of the Ice - Myron Arms
 * Witness the Nature - Linda Lear
 * Living Downstream - Susan Steingraber
 * The Orchid Theif - Susan Orlean
 * The Monkey Wrench Gang - Edward Abbey
 * Ishmael - Daniel Quinn
 * A Walk in the Woods - Bill Bryson
 * Ocean Warrior - Paul Watson
 * Desert Year - Joseph Krutch
 * Wolves of Denali - Adolphy Marie
 * Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
 * And the Rivers Turn to Blood - Rodney Barker
 * Confessions of an EcoWarrior - Dave Foreman