235 books
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32 voters
Environmental Books
Showing 1-50 of 13,053
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 326 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,527 ratings — published 1962
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 255 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.50 — 184,267 ratings — published 2013
The Overstory (Paperback)
by (shelved 185 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.11 — 205,091 ratings — published 2018
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 163 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,352 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,255 ratings — published 2014
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 133 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,027 ratings — published 2014
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 129 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,647 ratings — published 2015
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,305 ratings — published 2019
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,764 ratings — published 2007
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,705 ratings — published 1968
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.31 — 54,161 ratings — published 2020
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,764 ratings — published 2006
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.27 — 70,472 ratings — published 2024
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,153 ratings — published 1854
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 453,654 ratings — published 1998
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.05 — 114,003 ratings — published 2007
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.37 — 22,267 ratings — published 2003
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,610 ratings — published 2020
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.08 — 30,088 ratings — published 1975
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.11 — 51,579 ratings — published 2021
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,585 ratings — published 2002
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 63 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.10 — 113,600 ratings — published 2020
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,391 ratings — published 2004
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,463 ratings — published 2021
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,142 ratings — published 1986
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.33 — 30,675 ratings — published 2015
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 58 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,245 ratings — published 2001
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.21 — 81,264 ratings — published 2009
The Lorax (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.35 — 374,742 ratings — published 1971
Flight Behavior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.83 — 103,819 ratings — published 2012
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.85 — 28,160 ratings — published 2019
Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,769 ratings — published 2021
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.04 — 467,747 ratings — published 1997
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 533,252 ratings — published 2025
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,405 ratings — published 2017
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,803 ratings — published 2017
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,154 ratings — published 1989
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.79 — 7,021 ratings — published 2006
Once There Were Wolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.09 — 143,326 ratings — published 2021
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.50 — 35,687 ratings — published 2020
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,286 ratings — published 2010
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 120,313 ratings — published 2008
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,217 ratings — published 2022
The Ministry for the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.86 — 44,458 ratings — published 2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.22 — 22,015 ratings — published 2019
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,890 ratings — published 2006
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.92 — 15,328 ratings — published 2005
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,589 ratings — published 2019
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 134,974 ratings — published 2009
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as environmental)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,578 ratings — published 1974
“Is it a primitive fundamental reproductive desire, a want to fuck the Earth to become a part of that great reproductive cycle, the mightiest source of sexual power anywhere?”
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“A new respect for Nature had been learned, a new kinship with sun and water and soil....They had learned that while Nature is often beautiful and kind, her laws must be respected, for they are ruthless and inexorable as well. Man must accept these laws and adjust his way of living to them. Then only can he prosper.”
― Texas Tomboy
― Texas Tomboy












