Nature reading list
Nature reading list (Photo by Pexels)
We polled our colleagues for their favourite nature books. Here’s what a few of them suggested, although this list is by no means exhaustive. Happy reading!
Fiction and poetry
Flight Behaviour, by Barbara Kingsolver
Never Cry Wolf, by Farley Mowat
The Animals in That Country, by Margaret Atwood
The Dry, by Jane Harper
The Giving Tree, by Shel Silverstein
The Overstory, by Richard Powers
The Trumpet of the Swan, by E.B. White
Watership Down, by Richard Adams
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
Non-fiction
Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, by Ansel Adams, Andrea G. Stillman
A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold
Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in the Northwest Passage, by Kathleen Winter
The Once and Future Great Lakes Country: An Ecological History, by John Riley
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey
Moon by Whale Light: And Other Adventures Among Bats, Penguins, Crocodilians, and Whales, by Diane Ackerman
Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller, by Harry Robinson
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, by Rob Dunn
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
Sightlines, by Kathleen Jamie
The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North, by Beverley Gray
The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s Eye-view of the World, by Michael Pollan
The Curve of Time: The Classic Memoir of a Woman and Her Children Who Explored the Coastal Waters of the Pacific Northwest, by M. Wylie Blanchet
The Genius of Birds, by Jennifer Ackerman
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World, by Peter Wohlleben
The Nature Fix: Why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative, by Florence Williams
The Old Ways: a Journey on Foot, by Robert Macfarlane
The Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet's Great Ocean Voyagers, by Adam Nicolson
The Shepherd’s Life: A People’s History of the Lake District, by James Rebanks
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant
Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life, by Brian Brett
