Earth Day has been celebrated on the 22nd of April every year since 1970. The theme for 2021 is “Restore Our Earth.” In honor of Earth Day, Spokane Public Library created a list of books about the environment. Including fiction and non-fiction, this booklist should have something for everyone who cares about the natural world.
Non-fiction
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Half-Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
The Water Will Come by Jeff Goodell
Fiction
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
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The Overstory by Richard Powers
Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
