List of 258 Books With Environmental Themes
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Need to find books with environmental themes? Take a look at this handy list of relevant examples. In this collection, you'll find a variety of books that meet your specifications.
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Title | Author | Published | Genre |
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus | Charles C. Mann | 2005 | History, Non Fiction, Literature, Anthropology, Science |
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created | Charles C. Mann | 2011 | Biography, History, Non Fiction, Literature, Anthropology, Science |
A Civil Action | Jonathan Harr | 1995 | Novel, Biography, Legal Story |
A Sand County Almanac | Aldo Leopold | 1949 | Non-fiction |
A Short History of Progress | Ronald Wright | 2004 | Non-fiction |
A Thousand Barrels a Second: The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World | Peter Tertzakian | 2006 | Non-fiction, Economics, Business, Science |
Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think | Peter Diamandis, Steven Kotler | 2012 | Self-help book |
All We Can Save | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine Wilkinson | 2020 | Nonfiction, Environment, Environment, Climate Change, Science, Feminism |
An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming | Nigel Lawson | 2008 | Science, Climate Change, Nonfiction, Economics, Politics |
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems | Glenn Beck | 2007 | Humour, Non-fiction, History |
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It | Al Gore | 2006 | Non-fiction, Science, Environment, Politics |
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle | Barbara Kingsolver | 2007 | Biography, Autobiography, Cookbook |
Babylon's Ark, The Incredible Wartime Rescue of the Baghdad Zoo | Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence | 2007 | Nonfiction, Animals, History, War, Nature, Biography |
Beyond Oil: The View from Hubbert's Peak | Kenneth S. Deffeyes | 2005 | Peak Oil, Economics, Nonfiction, Science, Politics, Environment |
Biohazard: The Chilling True Story of the Largest Covert Biological Weapons Program in the World - Told from Inside by the Man Who Ran It | Ken Alibek | 1999 | Science, Nonfiction, History, Medical, Disease |
Black Faces, White Spaces | Carolyn Finney | 2014 | Nonfiction, Environment, Race, Environment, Nature, Social Movements, Social Justice |
Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza | Gloria Anzaldúa | 1987 | Poetry, Essay, Biography |
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants | Robin Wall Kimmerer | 2013 | Biography, Nonfiction, Nature, Science, Environment,Autobiography, Memoir, Spirituality |
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation | Silvia Federici | 1998 | Feminism, History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics, Philosophy, Theory,Gender, Economics, Sociology, Womens |
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England | William Cronon | 1983 | Dissertation, Travel literature, Nonfiction |
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet | Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope | 2017 | Non-fiction, Environmental science |
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | Jared Diamond | 2004 | History, Nonfiction, Science, Anthropology, Sociology, Environment, Politics, Economics |
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming | Bjørn Lomborg | 2007 | Non-fiction, Environment, Politics, Economics, Climate Change, Science |
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things | Michael Braungart, William McDonough | 2002 | Recycling, Industrial management, Environmentalism |
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness | Edward Abbey | 1968 | Autobiography, Nonfiction, Travel, Environment, Adventure |
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist | Kate Raworth | 2017 | Economics, Nonfiction, Business, Politics |
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet | Bill McKibben | 2010 | Self-help book, Nonfiction, Environment, Science, Ecology, Politics |
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit | Al Gore | 1992 | Nonfiction, Science, Environment, Politics, History |
Eating Animals | Jonathan Safran Foer | 2009 | Non-fiction, Environment, Philosophy, Animals, Health, Science |
Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems | Michael Begon, Colin R. Townsend, John L. Harper | 1986 | Textbook |
Encounters at the Heart of the World | Elizabeth A. Fenn | 2014 | History, Nonfiction, Anthropology, Historical, Female Authors, Native Americans |
Encounters with the Archdruid | John McPhee | 1971 | Fiction, Nature writing |
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures | Merlin Sheldrake | 2020 | Autobiography, Nonfiction, Science, Ecology, History |
Everybody Loves a Good Drought | P. Sainath | 1996 | Non-fiction, Economics, Politics, History |
Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat | Philip Lymbery, Isabel Oakeshott | 2014 | Cookbook, Nonfiction, Environment, Science, Animals |
Feral: Searching for enchantment on the frontiers of rewilding | George Monbiot | 2013 | Autobiography, Nonfiction, Science, Ecology, Environment, Politics |
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change | Elizabeth Kolbert | 2006 | Non-fiction, Science, Environment, Politics, History |
Food Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food Is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer—And What You Can Do About It | Karl Weber | 2009 | Nonfiction, Health, Science, Environment, Health, Nutrition, Politics |
God is Red: A Native View of Religion | Vine Deloria Jr. | 1973 | Religion, Nonfiction, History, Philosophy, Spirituality, Theology, Race, Native Americans, Anthropology, Politics |
Green Illusions: The Dirty Secrets of Clean Energy and the Future of Environmentalism | Ozzie Zehner | 2012 | Fiction |
Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage | Daniel C. Esty | 2006 | Environment, Nonfiction, Economics, Business |
Harmony: A New Way of Looking at Our World | Charles, Prince of Wales, Tony Juniper, Ian Skelly | 2010 | Biography, Nonfiction, Environment, Nature, Philosophy, Science, History, Science, Agriculture, Politics |
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science | Ian Plimer | 2009 | Science, Nonfiction, Environment, Climate Change, Politics |
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America | Thomas L. Friedman | 2008 | Nonfiction, Environment, Politics, Economics, Science, Business, History |
Last Chance to See | Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine | 1990 | Autobiography, Travel literature, Nonfiction, Science |
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder | Richard Louv | 2005 | Parenting, Nonfiction, Environment, Nature, Education, Science |
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway | 2010 | Science, Nonfiction,Politics, History, Environment |
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution | Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, Hunter Lovins | 1999 | Nonfiction, Economics, Environment, Sustainability, Business, Politics |
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference | Greta Thunberg | 2019 | Nonfiction, Environment, Politics, Science |
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent | Eduardo Galeano | 1971 | History, Nonfiction, Politics, Economics, Historical, Social Justice |
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth | Buckminster Fuller | 1969 | Philosophy, Nonfiction, Science, Design, Architecture, Environment, Sustainability, History, Ecology |
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis | Al Gore | 2009 | Environment, Economic |
Our Stolen Future | Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers | 1996 | Nonfiction, Science, Environment, Health, Science, Biology, Medical |
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World | Kevin Kelly | 1994 | Nonfiction, Science, Technology, Philosophy, Economics, Business |
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | Annie Dillard | 1974 | Nonfiction, Biography, Nature writing |
Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate | William Ruddiman | 2005 | History, Science, Nonfiction, Dissertation |
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters | Kate Brown | 2013 | History, Nonfiction, Dissertation, Science |
Power Hungry: The Myths of "Green" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future | Robert Bryce | 2010 | Energy |
Prosperity Without Growth | Tim Jackson | 2009 | Environment, Social Issues, Politics, Economics |
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place | Terry Tempest Williams | 1991 | Memoir, Creative nonfiction, Nature writing |
Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth about Climate Change | Clive Hamilton | 2010 | Nonfiction, Climate Change,Science, Environment, Politics, Philosophy, Biology, Ecology, Sustainability |
Silent Spring & other writings on environment | Rachel Carson | 2018 | Nonfiction, Science, Environment, Anthologies |
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet | Mark Lynas | 2007 | Nonfiction, Science, Environment |
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered | E. F. Schumacher | 1973 | Economics, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics, Environment |
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene | Donna Haraway | 2016 | Philosophy, Nonfiction, Feminism, Anthropology, Environment, Science, Nature |
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity | James Hansen | 2009 | Science, Nonfiction, Environment, Climate Change, Politics |
The Coming Global Superstorm | Art Bell, Whitley Strieber | 1999 | Nonfiction, History, Science Fiction, Dystopia, Environment, Nature |
The Control of Nature | John McPhee | 1987 | Nonfiction, Science, Environment, Nature, History |
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution | Carolyn Merchant | 1980 | Feminism, Nonfiction, History, Science, Philosophy, Environment, Nature, Ecology |
The End of Nature | Bill McKibben | 1989 | Environment, Nonfiction, Science, Climate Change, Nature, Sustainability, Politics |
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World | Paul Roberts | 2004 | Nonfiction, Politics, Economics, Science, Environment, History, Business |
The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat | Charles Clover | 2004 | Nonfiction, Food, Science, Environment, Conservation |
The Everglades: River of Grass | Marjory Stoneman Douglas | 1947 | Nonfiction, Environment, Nature, History, Science, Ecology, Travel |
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World | Steven Berlin Johnson | 2006 | History, Nonfiction, Science, Health, Medicine, Medical, Historical |
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable | Amitav Ghosh | 2016 | Nonfiction, Climate Change, Environment, Science, Politics, History |
The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems | Van Jones | 2008 | Nonfiction, Economics, Environment, Politics, Business |
The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars: Dispatches from the Front Lines | Michael E. Mann | 2012 | Science, Nonfiction, Environment, Climate Change, Politics, History |
The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science | Andrew Montford | 2010 | Environment, Climate Chang, Science, Politics |
The Hundred Year Lie: How Food And Medicine Are Destroying Your Health | Randall Fitzgerald | 2006 | Health, Nonfiction, Food, Science, History, Sustainability |
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World | Andrea Wulf | 2015 | Nonfiction, Science, History, Biography, Nature, Environment, Natural History |
The Legacy of Luna | Julia Butterfly Hill | 2000 | Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Environment, Nature, Biography, Social Issues, Activism |
The Limits to Growth | Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III | 1972 | Nonfiction, Economics, Science, Politics, Environment, Sustainability, Philosophy |
The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century | James Howard Kunstler | 2003 | Nonfiction, Environment, Politics, Economics, Science |
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels | Alex Epstein | 2014 | Nonfiction,Politics, Economics, Science, Philosophy, Environment, Climate Change, Business |
The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins | Anna Tsing | 2015 | Nonfiction, Anthropology, Science, Environment, Nature, Politics, Economics |
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals | Michael Pollan | 2006 | Nonfiction, Food, Science, Health, History, Nutrition, Environment |
The Population Bomb | Paul R. Ehrlich | 1968 | Nonfiction, Science, Environment, Sociology |
The Real Global Warming Disaster (Is The Obsession With 'Climate Change' Turning Out To Be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?) | Christopher Booker | 2009 | Science, Politics, Environment, Climate Change, Nonfiction |
The Sea Around Us | Rachel Carson | 1951 | Nonfiction, Nature writing |
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert | 2014 | Nonfiction, Science, History, Environment |
The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World | Bjørn Lomborg | 1998 | Nonfiction, Science, Environment, Economics, Politics, Geography |
The World Without Us | Alan Weisman | 2007 | Nonfiction, Science, Environment, Nature, History |
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate | Naomi Klein | 2014 | Nonfiction, Politics, Environment, Science, Economics, Business |
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation | Dan Fagin | 2013 | Nonfiction, Science, History, Environment, Politics, Health |
Unbowed: A Memoir | Wangari Maathai | 2006 | Autobiography |
Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years | Siegfried Fred Singer, Dennis T. Avery | 2006 | Science, Nonfiction, Politics, Environment |
Walden | Henry David Thoreau | 1854 | Memoir, Autobiography, Classics, Nonfiction, Philosophy |
Wave: Life and Memories after the Tsunami | Sonali Deraniyagala | 2013 | Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, Cultural, History, Adult |
Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto | Stewart Brand | 2009 | Science, Nonfiction, Environment, Politics, Sustainability, Climate Change, Economics |
Worms Eat My Garbage: How to Set Up & Maintain a Worm Composting System | Mary Appelhof | 1982 | Nonfiction, Science, Reference, Gardening |
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