Deep dive into an environmental topic or lose yourself in a topical novel. We’ve compiled a list of our favourite books to get you started.
If you’ve read one of these books and want to write a review that shares your thoughts, what you did as a result of reading it, or just whether you’d recommend it to a friend, do get in touch!
Happy reading…
Climate change
- This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein
- How did we get into this mess? by George Monbiot
- The Uninhabitable Earth: Life after Warming by David Wallace-Wells
- How Bad Are Bananas by Mike Berners Lee
- On Fire by Naomi Klein
- The Future we Choose by Christian Figueres
- Drawdown, the Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Developed to Reverse Global Warming
- The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
- New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
- The Carbon Diaries 2015 by Saci Lloyd
- Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver
- What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel
- The Drowned World by J.G. Ballard
- The Wall by John Lanchester
- This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
Consumption
- Stuffocation by James Wallham
- Slave to Fashion by Safia Minney
- Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion by Elizabeth Cline
- Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion by Tansy E. Hoskins
- Fashionopolis: The Price of Fast Fashion and the Future of Clothes by Dana Thomas
- Zero Waste Home by Bea Johnson
- 6 Steps to a Sustainable Wardrobe by tortoiseandladygrey.com
- Green Washed by Kendra Pierre-Louis
- A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life by Tara Button
- Thrive: An environmentally conscious lifestyle guide to better health and true wealth by Kamea Chayne
Environmental issues
- Turning the Tide on Plastic by Lucy Siegle
- Feral by George Monbiot
- Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
- Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by Dorceta E. Taylor
- The End of Nature by Bill McKibben
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How they Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- Give a Sh*t. Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet by Ashlee Piper
- Kiss the Ground. How the Food you Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal your Body & Ultimately Save our World by Josh Tickell
- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Children’s books
- 10 Things I can do to Help my World by Melanie Walsh
- Bag in the Wind by Ted Kooser
- All the Water in the World by George Ella Ryan
- The Down to Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon
- Greta and the Giants by Zoe Tucker
- Our House is on Fire: Greta Thunberg’s Call to Save the Planet by Jeanette Winter
- Spring after Spring: How Rachel Carson inspired the Environmental Movement by Stephanie Roth Sisson
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