The most popular book reviews and pages from 2025

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EcoLit Books continues to see increases in traffic and email subscribers — we’ve nearly doubled the number of visitors from a year before. And we’re thankful to you. It’s inspiring to know that we share all share passion for writer who are trying to change the world for the better.

I looked up the website traffic for the past year. Keeping in mind that we get a fair number of bots and other nonsense visiting the site, here are the top pages and book reviews overall:

  1. Literary Outlets for Environmental Writing
  2. Pavlov’s Dogs
  3. The Overstory by Richard Powers
  4. Publishers of Environmental and Animal Literature
  5. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
  6. Contests for Environmental Writing
  7. The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell
  8. Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
  9. Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
  10. Animal Tales: Novels old and new that every animal lover should read
  11. Soil, The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden
  12. The Burning Earth, A History
  13. Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
  14. The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
  15. Open Throat by Henry Hoke
  16. The best environmental books we’ve read in 2024
  17. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  18. Bitch by Lucy Cooke
  19. The Wild Horse Effect by Chad Hanson
  20. Coyote America by Dan Flores
  21. Willodeen by Katherine Applegate
  22. The Devil’s Element: A Hell of a Mess We’ve Gotten Ourselves Into
  23. We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
  24. Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv
  25. Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz

Number one remains the same as last year — people do love our list of literary outlets!

We’ve seen a great deal of interest in anything by Charlotte McConaghy.

It’s also very nice to see a mix of old and new. We have The Jungle, published in 1906, and The Wild Horse Effect, published this year.

See you next year!