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BOOKS FOR A GENERAL AUDIENCE

Climate Change, Global Warming, and Hope for Our Future

Silent Spring by Rachel Caron (2002)

An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore (2006)

The Global Warning Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change by Bill McKibben (2012)

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)

Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson (2016)

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells (2019)

A Life of our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future  by David Attenborough and Jonnie Hughes (2020)

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions by Greta Thunberg (2023)

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times  by Jane Goodall, Douglas Abrams, et. al. (2021)

Books on Sustainability and Environmentalism

Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet  by  Hannah Ritchie  (2024)

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizaeth Kolbert (2024)

Silent Spring Revolution by Douglas Brinkley (2024)

What if We Got it Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana E. Johnson (2024)

Bogland: The Secret World that Defies Death and Protects Life by Merrit R. Turetsky (2026)

Here Comes the Sund: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization by Bill McKibben (2026)

Books on Natural Resources and Conservation

What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Oceans by Helen Scales (2024)

Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (2025)

Oceans: Earth’s Last Wilderness by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield (2025)

Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition, by Marc Reisner ( 2026)

Global Water Scarcity: Causes, Impacts, and Management Strategies (edited, 2026)

When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard (2026)

The Forest Year: Finding Hope in a World Worth Saving by Ethan Tapper (2024)

Moss and Lichen by Elizabeth Lawson (2024)

Poached by Rachel Love Nuwer (2018)

Books on Wildlife, Animal Extinction and Survival

The Turtle Crisis: Turtles and Tortoises on the Brink of Extinction by Craig Stanford (2024)

Turtles of the World: Annotated Checklist and Atlas of Taxonomy, Synonymy, Distribution, and Conservation Status by Turtle Taxonomy Working Group: Anders G.J. Rhodin, et. al.  (10th Ed., 2025)

Dreaming in Turtle by Peter Laufer (2018)

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Survival in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhusi (2021)

The Monarch Butterfly Migration by Monika Maeckle (2014)

The Dangerous World of Butterflies by Peter Laufer (2009)

Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think About Animals  by Chirstopher Preston (2024)

After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California by Peter S. Alagona (2020)

Grizzly Science and the Art of a Wilderness Life by Bruce McLellan (2026)

Big Cats by Steve Winter and Sharon Guynup (2026)

Birds, Bats, and Blooms: The Coevolution of Vertebrate Pollinators and Their Plants  by Theodore H. Fleming (2024)

Birds and Flowers: An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship by Jeff Ollerton (2025)

The Last Animal: Human History and the Fate of Life on Earth from the Ice Age to the Sixth Extinction by Kyle Harper (2026)

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