Readings

I'm an avid reader, and incredible nerd, so I have read tons of books related to the outdoors, nature, conservation, hunting, recreation, all kinds of science, physics, land ethics, and on. Here are my recommended readings, and I will only recommend a book if I've actually read it myself. These are alphabetical by book title, and mostly nonfiction but there are a handful of fiction books out there with themes appropriate to the cause that I will include. Also I will expand on this list the more books I read and want to recommend.

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A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Barkskins, Annie Proulx [fiction]

Bayou Farewell, Mike Tidwell

Cathedral of the Wild: An African Journey Home, Boyd Varty

Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries, Neil deGrasse Tyson

Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey

Firestorm: How Wildfire Will Shape Our Future, Edward Struzik

Grizzly Years, Doug Peacock

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How It Can Renew America, Thomas L Friedman

Island, Aldous Huxley [fiction]

Jimmy Bluefeather, Kim Heacox [fiction]

Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv

Our National Parks, John Muir

Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen

Pale Blue Dot, Carl Sagan

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Terry Tempest Williams

Rising Tide, John M Barry

Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans, Sylvia Earle

Silent Spring, Rachel Carson

Tip of the Iceberg, Mark Adams

The Beak of the Finch, Jonathan Weiner

The Big Burn, Timothy Egan

The Great Deluge, Douglas Brinkley

The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins

The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, Jack E Davis

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks, Terry Tempest Williams

The Future of Life, EO Wilson

The Lorax, Dr Seuss [fiction]

The Ravaging Tide, Mike Tidwell

The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert

Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation, Bill Nye

Who Rules the Earth? Paul Steinberg