The 52 Book Club: 2026 Challenge discussion

If it features the environment, it fits in this category!

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America

The Travelers Within: Into the Unknown by Daniel Mode

The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

Eating Animals - Jonathan Safran Foer

On Fire by Naomi Klein

Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward

Superman’s Not Coming by Erin Brockovich.

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures This just really seems like such an odd topic for a book, but intriguing!

All Creatures Great & Small by James Herriot

Not a Drop to Drink by Mindy McGinnis

Although I am not rereading this book now, Too Bright to Hear Too Loud To See has stuck with me for many years.

Lab Girl

Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were

Barkskins

Back to Nature by Chris Packhan

Fly Away by Patricia MacLachlan. Features a flooding river.

A classic: Walden

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Completed: January 14, 2021

I'm reading A Children's Bible for this prompt. It's not a religious book - I'd call it literary dystopian?! Almost done and it's been hard to put down! =)

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

So many places I could put "Where the Crawdads Sing," but I will place it here because the description of the marsh completely mesmerized me! It made me think back to my first reading of the 1909 book Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter, set in the wooded wetlands and swamps of northern Indiana.

Migrations would fit this category excellently.

Imaginary Friend

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays- Paul Kingsworth

I chose Grandma Says by Cindy Day - about weather and signs of changes in weather.

The World Without Us is like a documentary of how the Earth would reclaim itself if humans disappeared. It also covers an educational read

Four Winds

Brianna wrote: "The World Without Us is like a documentary of how the Earth would reclaim itself if humans disappeared. It also covers an educational read"

That one seems it would be fascinating.

Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens.

Completion Post:

Just finished reading: "The Drowned World" by J. G. Ballard (★★★★☆), it is a science fiction novel centering on a team of scientists researching ongoing environmental developments in a flooded, abandoned London in a post-apocalyptic world changed by global warming.

Ballard's narrative is powerfully descriptive and holds the isolationist science-fiction theme of this novel up. It is rich, eloquent, bold, and erudite – it is from a time where stories showed readers what the world looked like, where the action was secondary to the belief – simply a classic.

I read a cozy set in the National Forest that is facing a drought and the implications of that.

I read a Greenwood last year and it would be really good for this topic as well.

Forests, Fishing, & Forgery by Tonya Kappes

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I listened to Midnight at Chernobyl.

The Deep

Moon of the Crusted Snow

I read Gray Mountain by John Grisham for this prompt. Super fast read and I really enjoyed it.

Shipped

Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton

Oval by Elvia Wilk

where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens

I read "Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World" from the Editors of Collins

where the crawdads sing by Delia Owens covers the marshlands and swamps and the biodiversity there

One must read The Silo Trilogy by Hugh Howey. Best series I've read in a while. could it happen? What a reading journey!

The Overstory would fit beautifully here.

The Ardent Swarm by Yamen Manai A parable of the story of the delicate environment of the bee and the bee as a symbol of hope and the threat to the environment of the bee by the giant Asian hornet, set against a country being taken over by extremists enforcing their views on the small village of Nawa. A really engrossing read and beautifully written.

I read Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward, 3 Stars

Piranesi by Susanna Clark

I read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It deals with how we handle climate change in the near future (fiction). Sounds like it would be dark, but it ended up being hopeful.

Outside, You Notice by Erin Alladin, illustrated by Andrea Blinick is a picture book that encourages children to explore and learn about nature. https://cdnbookworm.blogspot.com/2021...