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Book Review: Little Great Island

July 20, 2025July 20, 2025 by JoeAnn Hart

A Novel, by Kate Woodworth Sibylline Press, 2025 Reviewed by JoeAnn Hart Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… the trees commingle their …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Gardening, Oceans, Organic Farming, Sustainability

ASLE announces finalists for 2025 Book Awards

June 28, 2025 by John Yunker

ASLE has announced the finalists for its biennial book awards and I’m excited to see a few titles reviewed here at EcoLit Books, like Sea Change, Soil and The Last …

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Categories Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Contest, Ecology, Endangered Species, Insects, Pets, Sustainability, What we're reading

New and forthcoming environmental books (June 2025)

June 15, 2025 by John Yunker

As we reach the halfway point of 2025 we have another exciting group of books to share. Enjoy! The Secret of Whylder Wood By Elaine Ramsey Park Woods and Whylder …

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Categories Animals, Pollution, Rewilding, What we're reading

Book Review: The Wild Horse Effect by Chad Hanson

March 10, 2025 by Midge Raymond

Chad Hanson’s gorgeous book The Wild Horse Effect: Awe, Well-Being, and the Transformative Power of Nature combines beautiful imagery of the West and wild horses with reflections on mindfulness, nature, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Chronicle Books, Conservation, Nonfiction, Sustainability

Going to Seed, Essays on Idleness, Nature, & Sustainable Work

December 28, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart

By Kate J. Neville Texas Tech University Press, 2024, The Sowell Emerging Writers Prize Winner I read Going to Seed right before the U.S election, when I was full of …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Essays, Nonfiction, Plants, Sustainability

New and forthcoming environmental books (September 2024)

September 1, 2024 by John Yunker

Here are a number of recently published or about-to-be-published books that have come across our desks. Love Story with Birds By Derek Furr “Let us be at a loss for …

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Categories Anthropocene, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Ecomedia, Endangered Species, Oceans, Sustainability, What we're reading

North Woods, a novel by Daniel Mason

September 16, 2024August 9, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart

Random House, 2023 “Shivers of lust passed through his elytra as he found her scent grow stronger,” and there we are, in the head of an Elm Bark beetle, one …

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Categories Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, History, Insects, Plants, Random House, Trees

Book Review: Wild Chorus: Finding Harmony with Whales, Wolves, and Other Animals

September 16, 2024July 16, 2024 by John Yunker

Guest book review by Gene Helfman. “…a woman’s place…is in the wild.” This remarkable book is a memoir, a unique lesson in natural history, a love poem to the wild, …

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Categories Book Reviews, Mountaineers Books, Nonfiction

New and forthcoming environmental books (June 2024)

June 9, 2024June 2, 2024 by John Yunker

Here’s the latest batch of books to come across our desks — enjoy! The first book is written by the founder of an amazing chicken rescue organization, Sweet Peeps, based …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Sustainability, Veganism, What we're reading

Book Review: Entangled Life

December 15, 2024April 5, 2024 by John Yunker

Funny the difference a word makes. Restaurants generally don’t advertise “fungi” on their menus. But “mushrooms” and “truffles” are a different story. Even though they are the same thing. Which …

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Categories Book Reviews, Ecology, Gardening, History, Nonfiction, Organic Farming, Plants, Random House, Trees, What we're reading

Mountain Time, A Field Guide to Astonishment, by Renata Golden

March 16, 2024 by JoeAnn Hart

Mountain Time, A Field Guide to Astonishment is a sharp and moving collection of essays about author Renata Golden’s time in the Chiricahua Mountains in Southeast Arizona. Hard on the New Mexico and Mexico borders, the area is isolated, but not desolate. For those who pay attention, the desert is teeming with life, past and present.

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