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The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Progressive Reads
1,065 books — 718 voters
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverThe Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael PollanThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinStories on the Trail of a Yankee Millwright Seeing the Past by James T. PowersSaving the Farm by James T. Powers
Best Sustainability Nonfiction
411 books — 316 voters

The Lorax by Dr. SeussOwl Moon by Jane YolenThe Great Kapok Tree by Lynne CherryThe Little House by Virginia Lee BurtonMiss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
"Green" Picture Books
380 books — 168 voters
State of Wonder by Ann PatchettThe Lost City of Z by David GrannThe River of Doubt by Candice MillardMother of God by Paul RosolieJourney to the River Sea by Eva Ibbotson
Amazon Rainforest
105 books — 97 voters

A is for Activist by Innosanto NagaraThe Lorax by Dr. SeussThe Paper Bag Princess by Robert MunschThe Story of Ferdinand by Munro LeafAnd Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson
Picture Books for Activist Families (English)
134 books — 89 voters
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. MilneA Bear Called Paddington by Michael BondLittle Bear by Else Holmelund MinarikBrown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Best Bear Books
182 books — 80 voters

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie KondōGoodbye, Things by Fumio SasakiThe Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide by Francine JayWalden or, Life in the Woods by Henry David ThoreauEssentialism by Greg McKeown
Minimalism
85 books — 69 voters
The Rage of Innocence by Kristin HenningN*gga Theory by Jody ArmourThe Struggle for the People’s King by Hajar YazdihaThe Assignment by Liza M. WiemerBuses Are a Comin' by Charles Person
Books to Empower Social Activism
39 books — 41 voters

Tales of Ever by Jen WylieA Blessed Olive Tree by Zain HashmiCollide by Ashley StambaughA-Ma Alchemy of Love by Nataša PantovićTorn by Ashley Stambaugh
Positive Inspiring Fantasy
21 books — 26 voters
The Carbon Almanac by The Carbon Almanac NetworkThe Great Bear Sea by Nicholas ReadEarth by Caroline AllenPrimates by Jim OttavianiNo Place Like Earth by Lori Fettner
Best Earth Day Books
162 books — 25 voters

Arising by Lisa Perskie RodriguezClade by James BradleyThe Ones We're Meant to Find by Joan HeWaste Tide by Chen QiufanMemory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
Climate Fiction by members of the Climate Fiction Writers League
123 books — 18 voters
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings by Karl MarxThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiThe Will to Power by Friedrich NietzscheThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Third Position
149 books — 13 voters

Catch-22 by Joseph HellerThe Lorax by Dr. SeussHamlet by William ShakespeareThe War of the Worlds by H.G. WellsDune by Frank Herbert
Books Mentioned in Nature's Housekeeper
70 books — 11 voters
White Fragility by Robin DiAngeloHow to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. KendiHow To Stop Being A Racist and Encourage Someone Else To by Ray MathisHow to Argue With a Racist by Adam RutherfordThe Clapback by Elijah Lawal
Third Position Books
94 books — 8 voters

The Overstory by Richard PowersPerilous Bounty by Tom PhilpottOn Fire by Naomi KleinThis Changes Everything by Naomi KleinClimate Generation by Lorna Gold
The GCCM List
66 books — 7 voters
The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe... by Daniel DefoeThe World of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Marta McDowellElemental South by Dorinda G. DallmeyerWilliam Bartram, The Search for Nature's Design by Thomas HallockNature Writings by John Muir
Nature Lit — Literature & Oral Tradition, with regard to the Natural World
283 books — 7 voters

The Western Canon by Harold BloomNotes Towards The Definition Of Culture by T.S. EliotPhaedrus by PlatoThe intimate philosophy of art by John ArmstrongCulture and Anarchy by Matthew Arnold
Roger Scruton's Bibliographies
100 books — 6 voters
And No Birds Sing by Mark JaffeExplorations of Aotearoa by Max AllenRough Waters by Nancy Danielson MendenhallStorytellers at the Columbia River by Nancy Danielson MendenhallVolcanic Adventures in Tonga - Species Conservation on Tin Ca... by Ann Göth
Pacific Ecology & Environment
17 books — 5 voters

Iep Jāltok by Kathy Jetñil-KijinerPoetry in a time of Pestilence by Alex MorrittApocalypse by Frederick TurnerOut Of Time by Kate SimpsonBlue on a Blue Palette by Lynne Thompson
Climate Change Poetry
14 books — 5 voters
Trace by Lauret SavoyThe Rise of the American Conservation Movement by Dorceta E. TaylorThe Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s by Dorceta E. TaylorRace, Class, Gender, and American Environmentalism by Dorcetta E. TaylorThe Colors of Nature by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Readings on race and conservation
7 books — 4 voters

Laudato Si' by Pope FrancisWhen the Trees Say Nothing by Thomas MertonServe God, Save the Planet by Matthew SleethPlanetwise by Dave BooklessGod of Earth by Kristin Swenson
Creation care: Christians and the environment
124 books — 3 voters
Wild Philly by Mike WeilbacherLessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusA Song for the Earth by Shannon JadeRemarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van PeltScat by Carl Hiaasen
Delaware Museum of Nature & Science
41 books — 3 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertFour Fish by Paul GreenbergShattering by Cary FowlerThe Soil Will Save Us by Kristin Ohlson
Big List of Environmental Books To Read
66 books — 2 voters
Лісовеня Сова by Лариса ДенисенкоЦе всі ми by Євгенія ЗавалійБіжи, саламандро! by Маша СердюкЕлектромобіль Сашко by Олеся МамчичБоброго ранку! by Ольга Купріян
Environmental Books for Kids in Ukrainian - Дитячі книжки про екологію
9 books — 2 voters

The Spiritual Emerson by Ralph Waldo EmersonSelf-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo EmersonAmerican Earth by Bill McKibben
The Nature-Soul: Transcendentalists and Romantics on Our Relationship with Nature
3 books — 1 voter
The Parents’ Guide to Climate Revolution by Mary DeMockerOur House Is on Fire by Malena Ernman
Green and Sustainable Parenting
2 books — 1 voter

Nihilism by Seraphim RoseDark Age America by John Michael GreerAn Inquiry into the Good by Kitarō NishidaJulius Evola by Frank Julian GelliThe Burning Souls by Leon Degrelle
Keith Woods 1-book-a-week challenge
8 books — 1 voter

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