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Duke University Press

The best environmental books we’ve read in 2020

October 24, 2026December 7, 2020 by John Yunker

Not surprisingly, we’ve been doing quite a bit of reading this year. Here are some of our favorite books. And not all of them were new in 2020. We reviewed …

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Categories Anthropocene, Awards, Best Books of the Year, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Duke University Press, Ecology, Endangered Species, History, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Milkweed Press, Nonfiction, Oceans, Poetry, Pollution, Random House, Sustainability, Timber Press, Topics, What we're reading, Wolves

The best environmental books we’ve read in 2017

December 20, 2020December 30, 2017 by John Yunker

It’s that time of year again, a time to reflect on the books that have left their mark on us. Books that will, over time and with luck, leave their …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Best Books of the Year, Birds, Book Reviews, Children's Books, Climate Change, Conservation, Duke University Press, Endangered Species, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, Fiction, New York University Press, Nonfiction, Oceans, Pollution, Text Publishing, University of Chicago Press, University of Minnesota Press, University of Wisconsin Press, W. W. Norton & Company, Yale University Press

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