Best Environmental Books

1.
Silent Spring
Silent Spring 4.05 avg rating — 53,310 ratings
2.
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There 4.31 avg rating — 35,151 ratings
3.
The Lorax
The Lorax
by: Dr. Seuss
4.35 avg rating — 363,645 ratings
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals 4.19 avg rating — 208,893 ratings
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Desert Solitaire
Desert Solitaire 4.18 avg rating — 53,104 ratings
6.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,830 ratings
7.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History 4.15 avg rating — 77,270 ratings
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed 3.93 avg rating — 73,868 ratings
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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail 4.07 avg rating — 436,076 ratings
10.
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves 4.21 avg rating — 25,554 ratings
11.
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 28,450 ratings
12.
The World Without Us
The World Without Us 3.81 avg rating — 42,952 ratings
13.
Eating Animals
Eating Animals 4.21 avg rating — 80,062 ratings
14.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate 4.16 avg rating — 27,258 ratings
15.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants 4.52 avg rating — 158,376 ratings
16.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto 4.07 avg rating — 118,646 ratings
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1)
Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 102,538 ratings
18.
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things 4.09 avg rating — 12,394 ratings
19.
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder 3.93 avg rating — 14,732 ratings
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The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction 4.29 avg rating — 8,561 ratings
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water 4.28 avg rating — 11,658 ratings
22.
Last Chance to See
Last Chance to See 4.32 avg rating — 25,703 ratings
23.
Technological Slavery
Technological Slavery 4.17 avg rating — 1,324 ratings
24.
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How
Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How 3.93 avg rating — 597 ratings
25.
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 3.75 avg rating — 206,249 ratings
26.
The Diversity of Life
The Diversity of Life 4.21 avg rating — 6,189 ratings
27.
Industrial Society and Its Future
Industrial Society and Its Future 3.85 avg rating — 11,948 ratings
28.
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 33,673 ratings
29.
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World 4.06 avg rating — 58,652 ratings
30.
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual
Permaculture: A Designers' Manual 4.49 avg rating — 1,722 ratings
31.
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl―A National Book Award Winner 4.06 avg rating — 60,115 ratings
32.
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World 4.07 avg rating — 84,752 ratings
33.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 4.05 avg rating — 112,349 ratings
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered 4.09 avg rating — 6,885 ratings
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America 3.71 avg rating — 13,903 ratings
36.
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by: Al Gore
3.78 avg rating — 6,947 ratings
37.
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating — 2,065 ratings
38.
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place 4.18 avg rating — 10,618 ratings
39.
The Wild Birds
The Wild Birds 3.98 avg rating — 347 ratings
40.
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture
The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture 4.33 avg rating — 6,463 ratings
41.
The Overstory
The Overstory 4.12 avg rating — 185,908 ratings
42.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change 4.04 avg rating — 4,756 ratings
43.
The End of Nature
The End of Nature 3.94 avg rating — 3,088 ratings
44.
Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth / My First Summer in the Sierra / The Mountains of California / Stickeen / Essays
by: John Muir
4.29 avg rating — 950 ratings
45.
The Sea Around Us
The Sea Around Us 4.17 avg rating — 4,837 ratings
46.
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization
Endgame, Vol. 1: The Problem of Civilization 4.11 avg rating — 2,202 ratings
47.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek 4.08 avg rating — 29,044 ratings
48.
Cry of the Kalahari
Cry of the Kalahari 4.33 avg rating — 8,282 ratings
49.
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars 3.62 avg rating — 120 ratings
50.
Nature and Selected Essays
Nature and Selected Essays 4.11 avg rating — 2,267 ratings
51.
The Milagro Beanfield War
The Milagro Beanfield War 4.10 avg rating — 10,587 ratings
52.
American Wolf
American Wolf 4.39 avg rating — 12,271 ratings
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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life 4.16 avg rating — 5,311 ratings
54.
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future 4.06 avg rating — 3,993 ratings
55.
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood 4.02 avg rating — 3,511 ratings
56.
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating
Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating 4.06 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
57.
Arctic Dreams
Arctic Dreams 4.23 avg rating — 8,799 ratings
58.
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet 4.06 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
59.
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth 3.81 avg rating — 2,283 ratings
60.
Under the Sea-Wind
Under the Sea-Wind 4.15 avg rating — 1,588 ratings
61.
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference 4.01 avg rating — 844,189 ratings
62.
Encounters with the Archdruid
Encounters with the Archdruid 4.22 avg rating — 6,561 ratings
63.
Small Wonder
Small Wonder 4.02 avg rating — 11,173 ratings
64.
Walking
Walking 3.74 avg rating — 10,648 ratings
65.
Wilding
Wilding 4.45 avg rating — 9,003 ratings
66.
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World 3.92 avg rating — 24,359 ratings
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Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink 4.16 avg rating — 1,385 ratings
68.
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw: One Woman's Fight to Save the World's Most Beautiful Bird 4.10 avg rating — 992 ratings
69.
The Population Bomb
The Population Bomb 3.10 avg rating — 564 ratings
70.
Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It
Food, Inc.: A Participant Guide: How Industrial Food is Making Us Sicker, Fatter, and Poorer-And What You Can Do About It 4.17 avg rating — 15,357 ratings
70.
La forma en que vivimos: El Ser Humano, su Ruptura con el Medio y Consigo Mismo
La forma en que vivimos: El Ser Humano, su Ruptura con el Medio y Consigo Mismo 4.76 avg rating — 50 ratings
72.
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth 3.92 avg rating — 3,336 ratings
73.
Stalking the Wild Asparagus
Stalking the Wild Asparagus 4.22 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
74.
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau 4.24 avg rating — 607 ratings
74.
War of the Whales: A True Story
War of the Whales: A True Story 4.06 avg rating — 1,654 ratings
76.
Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,490 ratings
77.
Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege
Green Is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege 4.34 avg rating — 854 ratings
78.
Remarkable Creatures
Remarkable Creatures 3.89 avg rating — 54,477 ratings
79.
No Logo
No Logo 3.89 avg rating — 32,431 ratings
80.
Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning
Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning 4.04 avg rating — 1,066 ratings
80.
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update 4.21 avg rating — 1,726 ratings
82.
The Empty Ocean
The Empty Ocean 3.91 avg rating — 211 ratings
83.
Flight Behavior
Flight Behavior 3.82 avg rating — 100,150 ratings
84.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 29,325 ratings
85.
The Practice of the Wild
The Practice of the Wild 4.19 avg rating — 2,686 ratings
86.
Maya of the In-between (Maya Rising, #1)
Maya of the In-between (Maya Rising, #1) 4.36 avg rating — 182 ratings
87.
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air 4.41 avg rating — 1,797 ratings
88.
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture 4.41 avg rating — 4,891 ratings
89.
The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert
The Secret Knowledge of Water: Discovering the Essence of the American Desert 4.29 avg rating — 2,773 ratings
90.
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World 4.32 avg rating — 28,482 ratings
91.
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Second Nature: A Gardener's Education 3.93 avg rating — 8,990 ratings
92.
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes
by: Dan Egan
4.34 avg rating — 11,019 ratings
93.
Wolf Willow
Wolf Willow 3.97 avg rating — 964 ratings
94.
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front
Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front 4.19 avg rating — 2,008 ratings
95.
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks 3.90 avg rating — 826 ratings
96.
Tokyo Digs a Garden
Tokyo Digs a Garden 4.07 avg rating — 356 ratings
97.
Green Illusions
Green Illusions 3.97 avg rating — 759 ratings
98.
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability
The Ecology of Commerce Revised Edition: A Declaration of Sustainability 4.12 avg rating — 2,350 ratings
99.
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter 4.28 avg rating — 4,973 ratings
100.
The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right
The RIVERKEEPERS: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right 3.87 avg rating — 199 ratings
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