What are your favorite books about climate change and the environment?

April is Earth Month! 🌎 What fiction or nonfiction books would you recommend to readers who want to learn more about environmental issues, climate crisis, and protecting our planet?

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Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson
New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
This Changes Everything Naomi Klein
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative Florence Williams
Doing Good Better William MacAskill
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells
How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times Jane Goodall Douglas Carlton Abrams Gail Hudson
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation Peter Wohlleben
Migrations Charlotte McConaghy
The World Without Us Alan Weisman
We Are the Weather Jonathan Safran Foer
Unsettled Steven E. Koonin
Dune Frank Herbert
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
History of Bees Maja Lunde
KliFi KliFi Adriaan van Dis
On Time and Water Andri Snær Magnason
All We Can Save Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Katharine K. Wilkinson
The End of the Ocean Maja Lunde Diane Oatley (Translator)
A Half-Built Garden Ruthanna Emrys
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse Dave Goulson
The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming James Lawrence Powell
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything Mike Berners-Lee
Forty Signs of Rain Kim Stanley Robinson
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered Ernst F. Schumacher
The New Climate War Michael E. Mann
Greenwood Michael Christie
The Water Knife Paolo Bacigalupi
Strangers Rebecca Tamás

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Oryx and Crake Margaret Atwood
The Ministry for the Future Kim Stanley Robinson
New York 2140 Kim Stanley Robinson
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
This Changes Everything Naomi Klein
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative Florence Williams
Doing Good Better William MacAskill
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells
How High We Go in the Dark Sequoia Nagamatsu
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times Jane Goodall Douglas Carlton Abrams Gail Hudson
The Secret Wisdom of Nature : Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things --- Stories from Science and Observation Peter Wohlleben
Migrations Charlotte McConaghy
The World Without Us Alan Weisman
We Are the Weather Jonathan Safran Foer
Unsettled Steven E. Koonin
Dune Frank Herbert
Silent Spring Rachel Carson
History of Bees Maja Lunde
KliFi KliFi Adriaan van Dis
On Time and Water Andri Snær Magnason
All We Can Save Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Katharine K. Wilkinson
The End of the Ocean Maja Lunde Diane Oatley (Translator)
A Half-Built Garden Ruthanna Emrys
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse Dave Goulson
The 2084 Report: An Oral History of the Great Warming James Lawrence Powell
How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint of Everything Mike Berners-Lee
Forty Signs of Rain Kim Stanley Robinson
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered Ernst F. Schumacher
The New Climate War Michael E. Mann
Greenwood Michael Christie
The Water Knife Paolo Bacigalupi
Strangers Rebecca Tamás

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