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2025 Read Harder Challenge > Task 13: Read a nonfiction book about nature or the environment.

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message 1: by Krista (new)

Krista | 140 comments Share and discuss book ideas for
Task 13: Read a nonfiction book about nature or the environment.


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message 7: by Elizabeth (new)

Elizabeth (elizabethlk) | 359 comments This is an area I want to be reading more in as I don't have as much experience as I would like with it. There's so many books in this vein I want to get to. Sincerely hoping to read multiple from this category.

Currently considering The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet by Leah Thomas, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells, There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities by Ingrid R.G. Waldron, A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington, Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx... honestly, this is only the tip of the iceberg for stuff that's on my physical shelves at home and on my goodreads TBR.


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Audra (themonkeygirl) | 101 comments Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures has been on my TBR for a while so I'm going with it.


Carly Really Very Normal (seullybwillikers) | 43 comments Going to dip my toes into Mary Roach's writing for this one: "Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law."


message 12: by Alex (new)

Alex | 11 comments Would An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us work for this? It's more about animals than nature although they are pretty connected.


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Tammy | 202 comments Alex wrote: "Would An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us work for this? It's more about animals than nature although they are pretty connected."

This definitely looks like it would count!


message 16: by Alex (new)

Alex | 11 comments Tammy wrote: "Alex wrote: "Would An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us work for this? It's more about animals than nature although they are pretty connected."

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Thank you!


message 17: by Teresa (new)

Teresa | 416 comments I have a children's book for this one, Tsunamis & Seiches.


message 18: by Robin (new)

Robin (grayeyed) | 67 comments I've been meaning to read Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail and I may use this as my #9 choice.


message 20: by Krista (new)

Krista | 140 comments Robin wrote: "I've been meaning to read Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail and I may use this as my #9 choice."


Ooh, that looks like a good one for me as well. It's not a trail I've been on, but I have an interest in long trails after working crew on the Appalachian Trail right after college.


message 21: by Kathy (new)

Kathy Irvin | 11 comments I read Braiding Sweetgrass Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer book:Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants|17465709] by Robin Wall Kimmerer. 2/22/25


message 22: by Rebecca (new)

Rebecca Smith | 1 comments I chose The Soul Of An Octopus for this prompt.


message 23: by Lindsay (new)

Lindsay (lindsaydecker) | 11 comments I really enjoyed The Rise of Wolf 8: Witnessing the Triumph of Yellowstone’s Underdog about the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone


message 27: by Bill (new)

Bill | 17 comments I wasn't expecting Gender Is Really Strange to fit this category, but there's a great deal of information on the biological complexity of sex and gender that I didn't know before. I learned a lot about chromosomal variations and the rate and variations of biological intersex identities in human beings.


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