This year brought essential reading on climate change, endangered species, ecology, environmental justice, and other important topics about protecting the planet.

Looking for a good book about endangered species? We’ve got a few dozen for you, along with many more books about climate change, ecology, environmental justice, sustainability and every other environmental topic you can imagine.

We’ve spent the past year tracking the environmental book that crossed our desks — more than 280 of them. The list includes novels, memoirs, academic books, how-to texts, stories for children, photography collections, and a whole lot more. It’s not comprehensive, and it’s weighed toward nonfiction for adults, but it’s still impressive to see publishers and readers embrace these topics while the world faces so many compounding crises.

The Revelator has already reviewed many of these books, and we hope to read a few more of them in the months ahead — even as we start to tackle our growing list of 2025 publications.

The links below go to the publishers’ websites, but your local library or bookseller should also have access to any book on this list.

(Authors and publishers: Send news about your 2025 books — or any 2024 titles we missed — to books@therevelator.org. Include the title, author, a link to the book’s page on the publisher’s website. Review copies are also welcome.)

Special thanks to Dr. Colleen M. Crary for help compiling this list.

Title Author Link
A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery Diane K Boyd https://greystonebooks.com/products/a-woman-among-wolves
Absolution Jeff VanderMeer https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374616595/absolution
Age of Deer, The: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighbors Erika Howsare https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/731239/the-age-of-deer-by-erika-howsare/
The Age of Loneliness Laura Marris https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/age-loneliness
The Age of Melt Lisa Baril https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lisa-baril/the-age-of-melt/9781643261515/?lens=timber-press
The Air They Breathe: A Pediatrician on the Frontlines of Climate Change Debra Hendrickson https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Air-They-Breathe/Debra-Hendrickson/9781501197130
Amphibious Soul Craig Foster https://www.harpercollins.com/products/amphibious-soul-craig-foster
An Atlas of Endangered Alphabets Tim Brookes https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/
Ancestral Future Ailton Krenak https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=ancestral-future–9781509560721
Anima: A Wild Pastoral Kapka Kassabova https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/anima
Animal Climate Heroes Alison Pearce Stevens; illustrated by Jason Ford https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250847348/animalclimateheroes
At Every Depth: Our Growing Knowledge of the Changing Oceans Tessa Hill and Eric Simons https://cup.columbia.edu/book/at-every-depth/9780231199704
Atlas Obscura: Wild Life Cara Giaimo; Joshua Foer https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/cara-giaimo/atlas-obscura-wild-life/9781523514410/?lens=workman-publishing-company
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World Anne Applebaum https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302/autocracy-inc-by-anne-applebaum/
Backyard Bird Chronicles Amy Tan https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717452/the-backyard-bird-chronicles-by-amy-tan/
Bats Beneath the Bridge Janet Nolan https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/bats-beneath-the-bridge/
Bay Area Wildlife: An Irreverent Guide Jeff Miller https://www.heydaybooks.com/catalog/bay-area-wildlife/
Be a Nature Explorer! Peter Wohlleben https://greystonebooks.com/collections/all/products/be-a-nature-explorer
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life Ferris Jabr https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/623907/becoming-earth-by-ferris-jabr/
Beep: A Novel Bill Roorbach https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bill-roorbach/beep/9781643755618/
Before It’s Gone: Stories From the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America Jonathan Vigliotti https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Before-Its-Gone/Jonathan-Vigliotti/9781668008171
Before They Vanish: Saving Nature’s Populations — and Ourselves Paul R. Ehrlich, Gerardo Ceballos, Rodolfo Dirzo foreword by Jared Diamond https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12456/they-vanish?srsltid=AfmBOooOhMuAAWhNjHpTnqibv7RO09eoxu0oFN8AhCjle76X04EDZq_7
Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 Bill McKibben and Jaime Green https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-best-american-science-and-nature-writing-2024-bill-mckibbenjaime-green?variant=41476862607394&utm_source=aps&utm_medium=plp&utm_campaign=aps
Beyond the Sea: The Hidden Life in Lakes, Streams, and Wetlands David Strayer https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53776/beyond-sea
Biology and Conservation of Animal Populations John A. Vucetich https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12899/biology-and-conservation-animal-populations
Biology of Us: The Living World All Around and In Us Gary C. Howard https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-biology-of-us-9780197664797
The Birds That Audubon Missed Kenn Kaufman https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Birds-That-Audubon-Missed/Kenn-Kaufman/9781668007594
Bite Bill Schutt https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bill-schutt/bite/9781668641132/
Blue Plate: A Food Lover’s Guide to Climate Chaos Mark Easter https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774476/the-blue-plate-by-mark-easter/
Born of Fire and Rain: Journey Into a Pacific Coastal Forest M. L. Herring https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300275421/born-of-fire-and-rain/
California Catastrophes Gary Griggs https://www.ucpress.edu/books/california-catastrophes/paper
Carried on the Wind: It Starts With a Seed Sheri Mabry https://www.albertwhitman.com/book/carried-on-the-wind/
Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness Robert Aquinas McNally https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9781496227263/cast-out-of-eden/
Category Five Porter Fox https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/porter-fox/category-five/9780316568210/?lens=little-brown
Charging Forward: Lithium Valley, Electric Vehicles, and a Just Future Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor https://thenewpress.com/books/charging-forward
Cheaper, Faster, Better: How We’ll Win the Climate War Tom Steyer https://www.spiegelandgrau.com/cheaper-faster-better
Chessie: A Cultural History of the Chesapeake Bay Sea Monster Eric A. Cheezum https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53727/chessie
Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question Jade Sasser https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520393820/climate-anxiety-and-the-kid-question
Climate Capitalism: Winning the Race to Zero Emissions and Solving the Crisis of Our Age Akshat Rathi https://greystonebooks.com/collections/all/products/climate-capitalism
Climate Justice: Five Aspects of the Challenge and The Movement Brandon Derman https://link.springer.com/book/9783031754401
Climate of Contempt: How to Rescue the U.S. Energy Transition From Voter Partisanship David Spence https://cup.columbia.edu/book/climate-of-contempt/9780231217088
Climate, Psychology, and Change Steffi Bednarek https://www.northatlanticbooks.com/shop/climate-psychology-and-change/
Color in Nature Justin Marshall, Thomas Cronin, Sönke Johnsen, Ron Douglas, Anya Hurlbert, Jane Boddy, and Fabio Cortesi https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691258621/color-in-nature
The Company of Owls Polly Atkin https://eandtbooks.com/books/the-company-of-owls/
Conceivable Future: Planning Families and Taking Action in the Age of Climate Change Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and Josephine Ferorelli https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538179697/The-Conceivable-Future-Planning-Families-and-Taking-Action-in-the-Age-of-Climate-Change
The Conservative Environmentalist Benji Backer https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730880/the-conservative-environmentalist-by-benji-backer/
Consider the Turkey Peter Singer https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691231686/consider-the-turkey
Core Samples: A Climate Scientist’s Experiments in Politics and Motherhood Anna Farro Henderson https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517916046/core-samples/
Countering Dispossession, Reclaiming Land David E. Gilbert https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520397767/countering-dispossession-reclaiming-land
Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World Steven Hawley https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735420/cracked-by-steven-hawley/
A Creek Runs Through This Driftless Land: A Farm Family’s Journey Toward a Land Ethic Richard L Cates Jr https://littlecreekpress.com/product/a-creek-runs-through-this-driftless-land-a-farm-familys-journey-toward-a-land-ethic/
Cull of the Wild Hugh Warwick https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/cull-of-the-wild-9781399403733/
A Darwinian Survival Guide Daniel R. Brooks and Salvatore J. Agosta https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048682/a-darwinian-survival-guide
Decolonizing African Agriculture: Food Security, Agroecology and the Need for Radical Transformation William G. Moseley https://cup.columbia.edu/book/decolonizing-african-agriculture/9781788215893
Decolonizing Environmentalism: Alternative Visions and Practices of Environmental Action Prakash Kashwan and Aseem Hasnain https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/decolonizing-environmentalism-9781350335493/
Deep Water James Bradley https://www.harpercollins.com/products/deep-water-james-bradley
Desert Edens: Colonial Climate Engineering in the Age of Anxiety Philipp Lehmann https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691239347/desert-edens
Discovering Birds: The Ultimate Handbook to the Birds of the World Dr. Julius Csotonyi https://www.cidermillpress.com/products/discovering-birds-the-ultimate-handbook-to-the-birds-of-the-world?_pos=1&_psq=Discovering+Birds&_ss=e&_v=1.0
Do Plants Know Math? Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals, From Leonardo da Vinci to Now Stéphane Douady, Jacques Dumais, Christophe Golé, and Nancy Pick https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691158655/do-plants-know-math
Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry NZ Kay https://store.doverpublications.com/products/9780486849287
Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery: The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity Lee Alan Dugatkin https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo239362319.html
Drawing Nature: The Creative Process of an Artist, Illustrator, and Naturalist Linda Miller Feltner https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691255385/drawing-nature
Earth Jumped Back Philip Reari https://www.blackrosewriting.com/literary/earthjumpedback
Earth’s Emergency Room: Saving Species as the Planet and Politics Get Hotter Lowell E. Baier https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538194140/Earths-Emergency-Room-Saving-Species-as-the-Planet-and-Politics-Get-Hotter
Earthly Bodies: Embracing Animal Nature Vanessa Chakour https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/721352/earthly-bodies-by-vanessa-chakour/
Eavesdropping on Animals: What We Can Learn From Wildlife Conversations George Bumann https://greystonebooks.com/collections/all/products/eavesdropping-on-animals
Eco-Anxiety Heather White https://www.heatherwhite.com/ecoanxiety-saving-our-sanity-our-kids-and-our-future-by-heather-white
Eco-Disasters in Japanese Cinema Edited by Rachel DiNitto https://cup.columbia.edu/book/eco-disasters-in-japanese-cinema/9781952636509
Eight-Legged Wonders James O’Hanlon https://greystonebooks.com/collections/all/products/eight-legged-wonders
Empire of Climate: A History of an Idea David N. Livingstone https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691236704/the-empire-of-climate
Endangered Languages Evangelia Adamou https://www.edelweiss.plus/#catalogID=4428556&page=1
Entropy Diane Tuft https://www.phaidon.com/monacelli/art-and-photography/entropy-9781580936705/
Environmentalism From Below: How Global People’s Movements Are Leading the Fight for Our Planet Ashley Dawson https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2101-environmentalism-from-below
Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change Orrin H. Pilkey https://www.dukeupress.edu/escaping-nature
The Ethics of the Climate Crisis Robin Attfield https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-ethics-of-the-climate-crisis–9781509559084
Even the River Starts Small: A Collection of Stories From the Movement to Stop Line 3 by Line 3 Storytelling Anthology Team https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2386-even-the-river-starts-small
Every Living Thing Jason Roberts https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/155625/every-living-thing-by-jason-roberts/
Evolution Evolving: The Developmental Origins of Adaptation and Biodiversity Kevin N. Lala, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Marcus Feldman, and Scott F. Gilbert https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691262413/evolution-evolving
Extinction Douglas Preston https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765317704/extinction
Extinctions From Dinosaurs to You Charles Frankel https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/E/bo213794370.html
Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It Paul Thagard https://cup.columbia.edu/book/falsehoods-fly/9780231560115
Feminist Conservation: Politics and Power in Madagascar’s Marine Commons Merrill Baker-Medard https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300265415/feminist-conservation/
Field Notes From a Fungi Forager Ashley Rodriguez https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/749967/field-notes-from-a-fungi-forager-by-rodriguez-ashley/
Finding the Fox: Encounters With an Enigmatic Animal Andreas Tjernshaugen https://greystonebooks.com/collections/all/products/finding-the-fox
Fixing the Climate: Strategies for an Uncertain World Charles F. Sabel and David G. Victor https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691224534/fixing-the-climate
Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice Simon Parkin https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Forbidden-Garden/Simon-Parkin/9781668007662
Forest Lost: Producing Green Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon Maron E. Greenleaf https://www.dukeupress.edu/forest-lost
Forest Under Siege: The Story of Old Growth After Gifford Pinchot Rand Schenck https://wsupress.wsu.edu/product/forest-under-siege/
Fracking Uncertainty: Hydraulic Fracturing and the Provincial Politics of Risk Heather Millar https://utorontopress.com/9781487552695/fracking-uncertainty/
Frog Day: A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Amphibian Lives Marty Crump https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo230148273.html
Fur, Fleas, and Flukes: The Fascinating World of Parasites Michael Stock https://utorontopress.com/9781487509224/fur-fleas-and-flukes/
Gaia’s Web: How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth Karen Bakker https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048750/gaias-web/
Gaslight: The Atlantic Coast Pipeline and the Fight for America’s Energy Future Jonathan Mingle https://islandpress.org/books/gaslight#desc
Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi Boyce Upholt https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393867879
Green Lands for White Men Meredith McKittrick https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo221801010.html
Green Power of Socialism, The Elena Kochetkova https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547451/the-green-power-of-socialism
H Is for Hope: Climate Change From A to Z Elizabeth Kolbert https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743289/h-is-for-hope-by-elizabeth-kolbert/
Happy Apocalypse: A History of Technological Risk Jean-Baptiste Fressoz https://www.versobooks.com/products/2786-happy-apocalypse
Heart of the Hive Hilary Kearney https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hilary-kearney/heart-of-the-hive/9781635864830/
Heat and the Fury: On the Frontlines of Climate Violence Peter Schwartzstein https://islandpress.org/books/heat-and-fury#desc
Hedgehogs, Killing, and Kindness: The Contradictions of Care in Conservation Practice Laura McLauchlan https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262548106/hedgehogs-killing-and-kindness
Hidden Life of Trees: A Graphic Adaptation Peter Wohlleben and Fred Bernard https://greystonebooks.com/collections/all/products/the-hidden-life-of-trees-the-graphic-adaptation
High Seas: Greed, Power and the Battle for the Unclaimed Ocean Olive Heffernan https://greystonebooks.com/collections/all/products/the-high-seas
Honeymoons in Temporary Locations Ashley Shelby https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517917074/honeymoons-in-temporary-locations/
Hope for Cynics: The Surprising Science of Human Goodness Jamil Zaki https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jamil-zaki/hope-for-cynics/9781538743065/?lens=grand-central-publishing
Hot Mess: Mothering Through a Code Red Climate Emergency Sarah Marie Wiebe https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hot-mess/9781773635668
How Autocrats Seek Power Richard L. Abel https://www.routledge.com/How-Autocrats-Seek-Power-Resistance-to-Trump-and-Trumpism/Abel/p/book/9781032625843
How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals About Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity Douglas J. Futuyma https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691264639/how-birds-evolve
How The Rose Got Its Thorns and Other Botanical Stories Dr. Andrew Ormerod https://www.mobiusbooksus.com/how-the-rose-got-its-thorns?rq=thorns
How to Love a Forest: The Bittersweet Work of Tending a Changing World Ethan Tapper https://www.broadleafbooks.com/store/product/9798889830559/How-to-Love-a-Forest
How to Teach Grown-Ups About Climate Change Patricia Daniels https://www.whatonearthbooks.com/us/product/how-to-teach-grown-ups-about-climate-change/
Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan Matthew C. Halteman https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/matthew-c-halteman/hungry-beautiful-animals/9781541602052/?lens=basic-books
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf Derek Gow https://chelseagreen.biz/product/hunt-for-the-shadow-wolf/
I Am Wind: An Autobiography Rachel Poliquin https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/692712/i-am-wind-by-rachel-poliquin-illustrated-by-rachel-wada/
If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls Bruno Latour https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=if-we-lose-the-earth-we-lose-our-souls–9781509560455
Insect Epiphany: How Our Six-Legged Allies Shape Human Culture Barrett Klein https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/barrett-klein/the-insect-epiphany/9781643261362/
Insurgent Ecologies: Between Environmental Struggles and Postcapitalist Transformations Edited by Undisciplined Environments Collective https://cup.columbia.edu/book/insurgent-ecologies/9781773636917
The Internet of Animals Martin Wikelski https://greystonebooks.com/products/the-internet-of-animals
Intertwined: From Insects to Icebergs Michael Gross https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/23103/intertwined
Intertwined: Women, Nature, and Climate Justice Rebecca Kormos https://thenewpress.com/books/intertwined
Into the Clear Blue Sky Rob Jackson https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Into-the-Clear-Blue-Sky/Rob-Jackson/9781668023266
Into the Great Wide Ocean: Life in the Least Known Habitat on Earth Sönke Johnsen https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691181745/into-the-great-wide-ocean
Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis Jon Waterman https://www.patagonia.com/product/into-the-thaw-witnessing-wonder-amid-the-arctic-climate-crisis/BK915.html?dwvar_BK915_color=000
Is Anyone Listening? What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us Denise L. Herzing https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo236257242.html
A Just Transition for All: Workers and Communities for a Carbon-Free Futures J. Mijin Cha https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262550796/a-just-transition-for-all/
Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World Sara C. Bronin https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393881660
Kind Life: Eat Plants, Buy Less, Slow Down — and Save the Planet Carina Wohlleben https://greystonebooks.com/collections/all/products/a-kind-life
Land Is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millennium Roberta L. Millstein https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo219284936.html
Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It Genevieve Guenther https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-language-of-climate-politics-9780197642238?cc=us&lang=en&
The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica Naira de Gracia https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Last-Cold-Place/Naira-de-Gracia/9781982182762
The Last Whaler Cynthia Reeves https://regal-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/the-last-whaler/
Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against “the Apocalypse” Emily Raboteau https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250809773/lessonsforsurvival
Lessons From the Climate Anxiety Counseling Booth Kate Schapira https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kate-schapira/lessons-from-the-climate-anxiety-counseling-booth/9780306831690/?lens=hachette-go
Lessons Learned in Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity: Conservation in Action Edited by Bonnie L. Harper-Lore and Gary K. Lore https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-0641-7
Let’s Fix This: Cleaner Living in a Dirty World Chandra Clarke https://tigermaplepublishing.com/introducing-lets-fix-this-cleaner-living-in-a-dirty-world/
Life as We Know It (Can Be): Stories of People, Climate, and Hope in a Changing World Bill Weir https://www.chroniclebooks.com/products/untitled-by-bill-weir
The Light Eaters Zoë Schlanger https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-light-eaters-zoe-schlanger?variant=41096248295458
Little Book of Fungi Britt A. Bunyard https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691259888/the-little-book-of-fungi
Little Book of Weather Adam Scaife https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691259994/the-little-book-of-weather
Little Book of Whales Robert Young and Annalisa Berta https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691260129/the-little-book-of-whales
A Little Queer Natural History Josh L. Davis https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/L/bo236997883.html
Living on Earth: Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World Peter Godfrey-Smith https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374189938/livingonearth/
Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene Wendy A. Wiseman, Burak Kesgin (Eds.) https://vernonpress.com/book/1852
Marine Pollution: What Everyone Needs to Know Judith S. Weis https://global.oup.com/academic/product/marine-pollution-9780197753804?lang=en&cc=us
Mayor’s Desk: 20 Conversations with Local Leaders Solving Global Problems Anthony Flint https://cup.columbia.edu/book/mayors-desk/9781558444485
Meandering: Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics Edited by Sofia Lemos https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781915609519/meandering
Meet the Neighbors Brandon Keim https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007081
Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change: Answers to Your Ocean and Atmosphere Questions Ellen Prager and Dave Jones https://cup.columbia.edu/book/megalodons-mermaids-and-climate-change/9780231212496
Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change David L. Kirchman https://global.oup.com/academic/product/microbes-9780197688564?cc=us&lang=en&
Miraculous from the Material: Understanding the Wonders of Nature Alan Lightman https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744483/the-miraculous-from-the-material-by-alan-lightman/
The Mistral: A Windswept History of Modern France Catherine Tatiana Dunlop https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo222106971.html
The Mourner’s Bestiary Eiren Caffall https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mourners-Bestiary/Eiren-Caffall/9781955905589
Multisolving: Creating Systems Change in a Fractured World Elizabeth Sawin https://islandpress.org/books/multisolving#desc
My Life With Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth Christine Figgener Translated by Jane Billinghurst https://greystonebooks.com/products/my-life-with-sea-turtles?_pos=1&_sid=53ae459e5&_ss=r
Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century Katie Hornstein https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300253207/myth-and-menagerie/
Nationalism: A World History Eric Storm https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691234052/nationalism
Natura Urbana Matthew Gandy https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551335/natura-urbana
Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes From Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys, and Other Wild Places Christopher Brown https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/christopher-brown/a-natural-history-of-empty-lots/9781643263366/?lens=timber-press
The Nature of Our Cities Nadina Galle https://www.harpercollins.com/products/nature-of-our-cities-the-nadina-galle?variant=42737818140706
Nature-First Cities Cam Brewer, Herb Hammond, and Sean Markey https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/N/bo238317283.html
New Fish: The Truth About Farmed Salmon and the Consequences We Can No Longer Ignore Simen Saetre; Kjetil Ostli https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735421/the-new-fish-by-simen-saetre-and-kjetil-ostli/
Night Magic Leigh Ann Henion https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/leigh-ann-henion/night-magic/9781643753362/
Notes From an Island Tove Jansson https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tove-jansson/notes-from-an-island/9781643264790/?lens=timber-press
Nuclear Is Not the Solution: The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change M.V. Ramana https://www.versobooks.com/products/3013-nuclear-is-not-the-solution?_pos=1&_psq=nuclear&_ss=e&_v=1.0
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John R. Platt

is the editor of The Revelator. An award-winning environmental journalist, his work has appeared in Scientific American, Audubon, Motherboard, and numerous other magazines and publications. His “Extinction Countdown” column has run continuously since 2004 and has covered news and science related to more than 1,000 endangered species. He is a member of the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers. John lives on the outskirts of Portland, Ore., where he finds himself surrounded by animals and cartoonists.