Green Reads: Environmental Fiction and Nonfiction
In 1962, Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring set in motion a public consciousness about the environment and led to a ban on DDT. The following titles have the environment as their theme — the ills perpetrated against it, the harm and hope that lies ahead, and the people who are trying to make a difference.
| Fiction books |
| Nonfiction books |
Fiction Books
Abbey, Edward. The Monkey Wrench Gang. 1975.
Bohjalian, Chris. Water Witches. 1994.
Box, C. J. Open Season. 2001. (Adult Mystery BOX).
Boyle, T. Coraghessan. A Friend of the Earth. 2000.
Brunner, John. The Sheep Look Up. 1972. (Adult Science Fiction BRU).
Clarke, Brian. The Stream. 2000.
DeLillo, Don. White Noise. 1985.
Gunesekera, Romesh. Heaven’s Edge. 2002.
Hiaasen, Carl. Hoot. 2002. (Teen Fiction HIA).
Also available: eAudiobook
Kingsolver, Barbara. Prodigal Summer. 2000.
Also available: CD
Klass, David. California Blue. 1994. (Youth Jr. High Fiction KLA).
Ozeki, Ruth. All Over Creation. 2003.
Also available: CD
Pancake, Ann. Strange As This Weather Has Been. 2007.
See, Carolyn. There Will Never Be Another You. 2006.
Also available: CD
Sterling, Bruce. Heavy Weather. 1994. (Adult Science Fiction STE).
Weldon, Fay. Chalcot Crescent. 2009.
White, Randy Wayne. Captiva. 1996. (Adult Mystery WHI).
Also available: Large Type
Nonfiction Books
Dempsey, Dave. On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century. 2004. (338.9528 D).
Diamond, Jared. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed. 2005. (304.28 D).
Also available: CD
Fishman, Charles. The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water. 2011. (333.91 F).
Flannery, Tim. The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth. 2005. (363.73874 F).
Also available: CD
Gore, Al. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It. 2006. (363.73874 G).
Also available: CD
Hawken, Paul. Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution. 1999.
(338.973 H).
Hohn, Donovan. Moby Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea. 2011. (551.462 H).
Kay, Jane Holtz. Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America, and How We Can Take It Back. 1997. (303.4832 K).
Kunstler, James Howard. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape. 1993. (720.47 K).
Reay, Dave. Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming. 2005. (363.73874 R).
Royte, Elizabeth. Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash. 2005. (363.7285 R).
Speth, James Gustave. Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment. 2004. (363.700973 S).
Steinberg, Ted. Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in American History. 2002. (333.713 S).
Weyler, Rex. Greenpeace: How a Group of Journalists, Ecologists and Visionaries Changed the World. 2004. (333.95 W).
Wilson, Edward O. The Future of Life. 2002. (333.9522 W).