The list below includes both physical and online books spanning the environmental spectrum across time and genres. Included is a sampling of classics and newer works in environmental science, politics, history, and cultural studies, including outstanding works in ecofiction and poetry. Many are considered essential works for eco-literacy. Each is linked to its catalog listing for more information. Please explore and enjoy.
| AUTHOR | DATE | TITLE | UNR CALL NUMBER |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey, Edward | 1994 | Confessions of a Barbarian : selections from the journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 | PS3551.B2 Z462 1994b |
| Abbey, Edward | 1990 | The Monkey Wrench Gang | PS3551.B2 M66 2006 |
| Adams, Ansel | 1997 | Ansel Adams' California | F862 .A59 1997 |
| Adams, W. M. | 2004 | Against Extinction : the story of conservation | QH75 .A346 2004 |
| Anderson, Lorraine, ed. | 2003 | Sisters of the Earth : women's prose and poetry about nature, 2nd ed. | PS509.N3 S57 2003 |
| Attenborough, David | 2020 | A Life on Our Planet: my witness statement and a vision for the future | QH45.2 .A88 2020 |
| Barr, Nevada | 2004 | High Country | PS3552.A73184 H54 2004 |
| Bogard, Paul W. | 2007 | Blessings from a Small House | PE3999 .B643 2007 |
| Bosselaar, Laure-Anne | 2000 | Urban Nature : poems about wildlife in the city | PS595.N22 U63 2000 |
| Brinkley, Douglas | 2009 | The Wilderness Warrior : Theodore Roosevelt and the crusade for America | E757 .B856 2009 |
| Carson, Rachel | 1962 | Silent Spring | SB959 .C3 c.2 |
| Connors, Philip | 2011 | Fire Season: field notes from a wilderness lookout | SD421.25.C66 A3 2011 |
| Dillard, Annie | 1974 | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek | QH81 .D56 1974 c.2 |
| Dillard, Annie | 1988 | Teaching a Stone to Talk : expeditions and encounters | QH81 .D563 1988 |
| Duane, Timothy P. | 1999 | Shaping the Sierra : nature, culture, and conflict in the changing west | GE185.S54 D83 1999 |
| Dungy, Camille T., ed. | 2009 | Black Nature : four centuries of African American nature poetry | PS591.B53 B49 2009 |
| Ehrlich, Paul R. | 1971 | The Population Bomb | HB875 .E35 1971 |
| Eiseley, Loren C. | 1971 | The Night Country | QH81. E6 |
| Elder, John | 1985 | Imagining the Earth : poetry and the vision of nature | PS323.5 .E46 1985 |
| Felstiner, John | 2009 | Can Poetry Save the Earth? : a field guide to nature poems | PS310.N3 F45 2009 |
| Foreman, Dave | 1991 | Confessions of an Eco-warrior | HC110.E5 F64 1991 |
| Gilbar, Steven, ed. | 1998 | Natural State : a literary anthology of California nature writing | QH105.C2 N425 1998 and Online |
| Goldfarb, Ben | 2018 | Eager: the surprising, secret life of beavers and why they matter | QL737.R632 G64 2018 |
| Gore, Al | 1992 | Earth in the Balance : ecology and the human spirit | GF41 .G67 1992 |
| Gould, Stephen Jay | 1993 | Eight Little Piggies : reflections in natural history | QH45.5 .G7 1993 |
| Grady, Wayne, ed. | 1999 | Bright Stars, Dark Trees, Clear Water : nature writing from north of the border | QH106 .B75 1999 |
| Halpern, Daniel & Frank, Dan, eds. | 1996 | The Nature Reader | QH81 .N317 1996 |
| Hasselstrom, Linda M. | 1991 | Land Circle : writings collected from the land | PS3558.A7257 Z467 1991 |
| Huntley, Jen A. | 2011 | The Making of Yosemite : James Mason Hutchings and the origin of America's most popular national park | F868.Y6 H897 2011 |
| Kimmerer, Robin Wall | 2013 | Braiding Sweetgrass | E98.P5 K56 2013 and Online |
| Kingsolver, Barbara | 2002 | Flight Behavior | PS3561.I496 F55 2012 |
| Kolbert, Elizabeth | 2014 | The Sixth Extinction: an unnatural history | QE721.2.E97 K65 2014 |
| Krutch, Joseph Wood | 1970 | The Best Nature Writing of Joseph Wood Krutch | QH81 .K828 |
| Krutch, Joseph Wood | 1955 | The Voice of the Desert : a naturalist's interpretation | QH88 .K7 1955 |
| Lane, John & Thurmond, Gerald, eds. | 1999 | The Woods Stretched for Miles : new nature writing from the South | QH81 .W765 1999 |
| Lee, David | 2010 | Stone Wind Water | PS3562.E338 S766 2010 |
| Leopold, Aldo | 1966 | A Sand County Almanac. With other essays on conservation from Round River | QH81 .L56 1966 |
| Lopez, Barry | 1986 | Arctic Dreams | QH84.1 .L67 1986 |
| Manguel, Alberto, ed. | 1998 | By the Light of the Glow-worm Lamp : three centuries of reflections on nature | QH81 .B9983 1998 |
| McKibben, Bill | 1989 | The End of Nature | GF75 .M38 1989 |
| McKibben, Bill, ed. | 2008 | American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau | PS169.E25 A44 2008 |
| McPhee, John A. | 1977 | Coming into the Country | F910 .M29 1977 |
| McPhee, John A. | 1971 | Encounters with the Archdruid | PS 3563 A3238 E5 |
| Momaday, N. Scott | 1999 | In the Bear's House | PS3563.O47 I46 1999 |
| Montgomery, Sy | 2015 | The Soul of an Octopus | QL430.3.O2 M66 2015 Popular Coll |
| Moore, Kathleen Dean | 2004 | The Pine Island Paradox | GF47 .M57 2004 |
| Mosley, Ivo, ed. | 1996 | Earth Poems : poems from around the world to honor the earth | PN6110.N2 E17 1996 |
| Mowat, Farley | 1963 | Never Cry Wolf | QL795.W8 M6 |
| Mowat, Farley | 1987 | Woman in the Mists : the story of Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas of Africa | QL31.F65 M69 1987 |
| Muir, John | 1911 | My First Summer in the Sierra | F868.S5 M9 |
| Nelson, Gaylord | 2002 | Beyond Earth Day : fulfilling the promise | GE195 .N45 2002 and Online |
| Owens, Delia | 2018 | Where the Crawdads Sing | PS3615.W447 W48 2018 |
| Pack, Robert & Jay Parini, Jay, eds. | 1993 | Poems for a Small Planet : contemporary American nature poetry | PS595.N22 P63 1993 |
| Powers, Richard | 2018 | The Overstory | PS3566.O92 O94 2018 |
| Quammen, David | 2000 | The Boilerplate Rhino : nature in the eye of the beholder | QH81 .Q17 2000 |
| Quammen, David | 1996 | The Song of the Dodo : island biogeography in an age of extinctions | QH541.5.I8 Q35 1996 |
| Quammen, David | 1998 | Wild Thoughts from Wild Places | QH81 .Q18 1998 |
| Rawlins, C. L. | 1998 | In Gravity National Park : poems | PS3568.A8493 I5 1998 |
| Rhodes, Richard | 2006 | John James Audubon: the making of an American | QL31.A9 R524 2006 |
| Rogers, Elizabeth | 2007 | The Green Book : the everyday guide to saving the planet one simple step at a time | TD171.7 .R64 2007 |
| Ronald, Ann, ed. | 1987 | Words for the Wild : the Sierra Club trailside reader | QH81 .W778 1987 |
| Smith, Jordan Fisher | 2005 | Nature Noir : a park ranger's patrol in the Sierra | SB481.6.F57 A3 2005 |
| Snyder, Gary | 2002 | The High Sierra of California | PS3569.N88 H54 2002 |
| Stegner, Wallace | 1954 | Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the West | Q143.P8 S8 1954 |
| Strayed, Cheryl | 2012 | Wild: from lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail | PS3619.T744 Z46 2012 |
| Sutton, Ann | 1969 | The American West; a natural history | QH104.5.W4 S9 |
| Tal, Alon, ed. | 2006 | Speaking of Earth : environmental speeches that moved the world | GE35 .S64 2006 |
| Thoreau, Henry David | 1939 ed. | Walden; or, Life in the woods | PS3048 .A1 1939 |
| Trapese Collective, ed. | 2007 | Do It Yourself : a handbook for changing our world | GE195 .D65 2007 and Online |
| Tsui, Bonnie, ed. | 2007 | A Leaky Tent is a Piece of Paradise : 20 young writers on finding a place in the natural world | QH81 .L435 2007 |
| Turner, Jack | 1996 | The Abstract Wild | QH81 .T87 1996 |
| Turner, Tom | 1991 | Sierra Club : 100 years of protecting nature | QH76 .T87 1991 |
| Williams, Terry Tempest | 1992 | Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place | RC280.B8 W47 1992 |
| Wilson, Edward O. | 1994 | Naturalist | QH31.W64 A3 1994 |
| Zakin, Susan, ed. | 2004 | Naked : writers uncover the way we live on earth | GE35 .N35 2004 |
| Zwinger, Ann | 1998 | The Nearsighted Naturalist | QH81 .Z94 1998 |
