Big Books of 2026

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The Botany of Desire by Michael PollanSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonTomatoland by Barry EstabrookThe Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsThis Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
Urban Environmental Educator Collective Library
139 books — 39 voters
Walkable City by Jeff SpeckStraphanger by Taras GrescoeHappy City by Charles MontgomeryWriting About Architecture by Alexandra LangeSmart Cities by Anthony M. Townsend
NextCity.org Book Club (fiction and nonfiction)
27 books — 24 voters

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertSilent Spring by Rachel CarsonGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
The Natural World: Natural Science and Natural History for Adults
779 books — 253 voters
1984 by George OrwellGuns, Germs, and Steel by Jared DiamondA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenAnimal Farm by George Orwell
The Best Social Studies Library List
235 books — 174 voters

The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee BrownThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Books White People Need to Read
1,305 books — 1,560 voters
Marxism and Ecological Economics by Paul BurkettEnvironmental Debt by Amy LarkinDARWIN ≥ MARX by Ciprian PaterMarx and the Earth by John Bellamy FosterPeople and the Land through Time by Emily W. B. (Russell) South...
Ecological Marxism
15 books — 3 voters

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe Colors of Nature by Alison Hawthorne DemingThe Home Place by J. Drew LanhamBlack Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn FinneyFlight of the Goose by Lesley Thomas
Connecting Ecological & Social Justice
38 books — 14 voters
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
669 books — 359 voters

Post-Scarcity Anarchism by Murray BookchinThe Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinGoverning the Commons by Elinor OstromCommunitas by Paul GoodmanToward an Ecological Society by Murray Bookchin
Post-Scarcity Anarchism reading list
64 books — 5 voters
The Abundant Community by John McKnightThe Great Good Place by Ray OldenburgThe Great Neighborhood Book by Jay WalljasperBetter Together by Robert D. PutnamThe Careless Society by John McKnight
Best Community Building Books
126 books — 6 voters


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