July 2022 Creation Corner Column: Summer Reading Suggestions
BOOKS ON THE ENVIRONMENT, NATURE, CREATION, EARTH, ECOLOGY
Above Sea Level (novel). Douglas E. Congdon.
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau. Edited by Bill McKibben. Foreword by Al Gore.
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. Michelle Nijhuis.
Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience. Jeremy Mynott.
The Book of Green Quotations. James Daley, editor.
Chimpanzee Memoirs: Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives. Edited by Stephen Ross and Lydia Hopper..
The Coal Trap: How West Virginia Was Left Behind in the Clean Energy Revolution. James M. Van Nostrand.
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves. J. B. MacKinnon.
Earthlings: Imaginative Encounters with the Natural World. Adrian Parr.
Ending Fossil Fuels: Why Net Zero Is Not Enough. Holly Jean Buck.
The High /Sierra: A Love Story. Kim Stanley Robinson.
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. Oliver Milman.
The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet. Leah Thomas.
Klimat: Russia in the Age of Climate Change. Thane Gustafson.
On Earth as in Heaven: Daily Wisdom for Twenty-First Century Christians. N. T. Wright.
Passions for Birds: Science, Sentiment, and Sport. Sean Nixon.
Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fueling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It. Alice Hah.
Power in the Wild: The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control Over Others. Lee Alan Dugatkin.
Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste. By Committee on the United States Contribution to Global Ocean Waste; The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Requiem for America's best Idea: National Parks in the Era of Climate Change. Michael J. Yochim.
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America. Megan Kate Nelson.
Second Nature: Scenes from a World Remade. Nathaniel Rich.
Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More: A Guide to Reproductive Diversity. Kenneth D. Frank.
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse. Dave Goulson.
Sonorous Desert: What Deep Listening Taught Early Christian Monks and What It Can Teach Us. Kim Haines-Eitzen.
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less. Leidy Klotz.
Surveying the Anthropocene: Art and Photography Now. Patricia Macdonald.
Thoughts on People, Planet & Profit. Amy Domini.
Urban Climate Insurgency (An issue of Social Text, 150). Editors: Ashley Dawson, Marco Armiero, Ethemcan Turhan and Roberta Biasillo.
Waste: One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret. Catherin Coleman Flowers.
Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluges. Erica Gies.
Why Veganism Matters: The Moral Value of Animals. Gary L. Francione.
Wild Souls: Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World. Emma Marris.
PANDEMIC LITERATURE
Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic (poetry). Naomi Shihab Nye, David Hassler and Tyler Meier.
Natural Immunity and Covid-19: What it is and How it Can Save Your Life. William A. Haseltine and Josephine Gurch.
Next Time There's a Pandemic. Vivek Shraya.
Omicron: From Pandemic to Epidemic. The Future of Covid-19. William A. Haseltine and Griffin McCombs. An on-line e-Book updated regularly.
Plagues & Pencils: A Year of Pandemic Sketches. Edward Carey.
Variants: The Shape-Shifting Challenge of Covid-19. William A. Haseltine. An e-book updated regularly.
Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague. Robert Zaretsky.
The World the Plague Made: The Black Death and the Rise of Europe. James Belich.
