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Environmental Studies Books
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.50 — 181,047 ratings — published 2013
Silent Spring (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,018 ratings — published 1962
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 37,056 ratings — published 1949
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,765 ratings — published 2014
Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,637 ratings — published 1991
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,067 ratings — published 1983
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,946 ratings — published 2014
Desert Solitaire (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.18 — 55,353 ratings — published 1968
Ishmael (Ishmael, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.01 — 105,492 ratings — published 1992
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 75,242 ratings — published 2004
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.19 — 211,364 ratings — published 2006
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.28 — 12,072 ratings — published 1986
Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.16 — 822 ratings — published 1995
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 30,352 ratings — published 1974
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,412 ratings — published 2019
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,394 ratings — published 2017
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.35 — 774 ratings — published 2011
The Sea Around Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,154 ratings — published 1951
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.38 — 21,831 ratings — published 2003
The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,383 ratings — published 2012
The Organic Machine: The Remaking of the Columbia River (Hill and Wang Critical Issues)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.80 — 789 ratings — published 1995
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 60,005 ratings — published 2001
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,644 ratings — published 2007
Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.31 — 700 ratings — published 2019
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 30,190 ratings — published 2019
Ecofeminism (Critique Influence Change)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.14 — 583 ratings — published 1993
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,978 ratings — published 2016
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 910 ratings — published 2017
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.34 — 11,706 ratings — published 2017
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,969 ratings — published 2016
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,220 ratings — published 2010
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 90,720 ratings — published 2015
The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,842 ratings — published 1977
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,876 ratings — published 1986
Walden or, Life in the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,362 ratings — published 1854
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 402 ratings — published 1986
Flight Maps: Adventures With Nature In Modern America (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 276 ratings — published 1999
No Impact Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,206 ratings — published 2009
Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,272 ratings — published 2015
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.41 — 6,575 ratings — published 2020
The End of Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,148 ratings — published 1989
In the Shadow of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.37 — 9,557 ratings — published 1971
On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,509 ratings — published 2019
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 17,491 ratings — published 2019
Losing Earth: A Recent History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,272 ratings — published 2018
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,074 ratings — published 2007
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene (Experimental Futures)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,945 ratings — published 2016
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,556 ratings — published 2013
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 8,463 ratings — published 2015
The Edge of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as environmental-studies)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,569 ratings — published 1955
“We trust ourselves, far more than our ancestors did… The root of our predicament lies in the simple fact that, though we remain a flawed and unstable species, plagued now as in the past by a thousand weaknesses, we have insisted on both unlimited freedom and unlimited power. It would now seem clear that, if we want to stop the devastation of the earth, the growing threats to our food, water, air, and fellow creatures, we must find some way to limit both.”
― Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West
― Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West






