Reading for Earth Day and for Life

  Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.        ~ Barbara Kingsolver

 Today is Earth Day 2013. What are you reading? Here is a very eclectic list of suggestions to read, or re-read,