This is our ongoing reading list, continually in progress and open to recommendations! We have not read all of them yet... any thoughts on ones you have read or are pining to would be great. It's so nice to talk about books.
ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE
- Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp - Gwen Roland
- The Bull Fighter Checks Her Makeup: My Encounters with Extraordinary People - Susan Orlean
- Cross Country - Robert Sullivan
- Death in the Everglades: The Murder of Guy Bradley, America's First Martyr to Environmentalism - Stuart B. McIver
- Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer
- The Legacy of Luna - Julia Butterfly Hill
- The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession - Susan Orlean
- My Kind of Place: Travel Stories from a Woman Who's Been Everywhere - Susan Orlean
- Rowing to Latitude: Journey's Along the Arctic's Edge - Jill Fredston
- Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Southeast Asia - Sy Montgomery
- Small Places - Thomas H. Rawls
- Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches - Jill Fredston
- The Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise - Michael Grunwald
- The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest - Elizabteh Royte
- This Cold Heaven - Gretel Ehrlich
- Under the Banner of Heaven - Jon Krakauer
- A Whale Hunt - Robert Sullivan
COB + HOME
- Building with Cob : a step-by-step guide - Adam Weismann Katy Bryce
- The Hand-Sculpted House - Evans, Smiley and Smith of The Cob Cottage Co.
- Home Work - Lloyd Kahn
- Shelter - Lloyd Kahn
- The Cob Builders Handbook - Becky Bee
- Rocket Mass Heaters - Ianto and Jackson
COMPOST
- Composting Toilet System Book: A Practical Guide to Choosing, Planning and Maintaining Composting Toilet Systems - David Del Porto Carol Steinfeld
- Create an Oasis With Greywater: Your Complete Guide to Choosing, Building and Using Greywater Systems - Art Ludwig
- Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator: Edible Essays on City Farming - Spring Gillard
- The Humanure Handbook - Joseph Jenkins
- Liquid Gold: The Lore and Logic of Using Urine to Grow Plants - Carol Steinfeld
- Reusing the Resource: Adventures in Ecological Wastewater Recycling - Carol Steinfeld David Del Porto
- Worms Eat My Garbage - Mary Appelhof
EQUALITY
- The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family - Dan Savage
- Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy or How Love Conquered Marriage - Stephanie Coontz
- Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin
- The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap - Stephanie Coontz
- The Way We Really Are: Ending the War Over America's Changing Families - Stephanie Coontz
- Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality - George Chauncey
FOOD + OTHER ANIMALS
- Animals in Translation - Temple Grandin
- The Botany of Desire - Michael Pollan
- Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All American Meal - Eric Schlosser
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
- Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey. The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World - Holley Bishop
GOVERNMENTS
- An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire - Arundhati Roy
- The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq - George Packer
- The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream - Barak Obama
- The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile - Conversations with Arundhati Roy, Interviews by David Barsamian
- The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future - Bill McKibben
- 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Fight the Right - Earthworks Group
- 50 Ways to Love Your Country: How to Find Your Political Voice and Become a Catalyst for Change - MoveOn.org
- Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right - Robin Morgan
- Fixed Ideas: America Since 9.11 - Joan Didion
- How the Republicans Stole Christmas: The Republican Party's Declared Monopoly on Religion and What Democrats Can Do to Take It Back - Bill Press
- The Prince - Machiavelli
- Lies, and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right - Al Franken
- 9-11 - Noam Chomsky
- Reefer Madness - Eric Schlosser
- The Truth - Al Franken
- Welcome to Doomsday - Bill Moyers
HOMESTEAD
- Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology - Eric Brende
- Continuing the Good Life: Half a Century of Homesteading - Helen Scott Nearing
- Country Wisdom Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Live Off the Land - Editors of Storey Books
- The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book - Carla Emery
- Foxfire Series
- Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture - Toby Hemenway & John Todd
- Good Dirt - flower couple
- The Good, Good Pig - Sy Montgomery
- The Greenhouse Gardener - Anne Swithinbank
- Growing Herbs: For the Maritime Northwest Gardener - Mary Preus
- Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades: The Complete Guide to Natural Gardening - Steve Solomon (Territorial Seed Co.)
- Herbal tea gardens : 22 plans for your enjoyment well-being / Marietta Marshall Marcin
- Herbs for sale : growing and marketing herbs, herbal products, and herbal know-how / Lee Sturdivant
- Homesteading Adventures: A Guide for Doers and Dreamers - Sue Robishaw
- Introduction to Permaculture - Bill Mollison
- Lasagna Gardening - Patricia Lanza
- Living the Good Life - Helen Scott Nearing
- New book of herbs - Jekka McVicar
- The New Organic Grower - Elliot Coleman
- The Next Whole Earth Catalog
- Permaculture: A Designers' Manual - Bill Mollison
- Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability - David Holmgren
- Rainwater Catchment Systems for Domestic Supply: Design, Construction and Implementation - Erik Nissen-Petersen
- Second Nature - Michael Pollan
- Water-Wise Vegetables: For the Maritime Northwest Gardener - Steve Solomon
- Wise words for the good life : [a homesteader's personal collection] - Helen Nearing
- You Grow Girl - Gayla Trail
POLLUTION by HUMANS
- Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World's Environmental Hotspots - Alanna Mitchell
- Effects of Air Pollution & Acid Rain on Fish Wildlife Their Habitats Lakes - US Dept Interior
- Fresh Air for Life: How to Win Your Unseen War Against Indoor Air Pollution - Allan C. Somersall
- The Future of Ice - Gretel Ehrlich ! (Greenland to Argentina)
- Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash - Elizabeth Royte
- Gasp!: The Swift and Terrible Beauty of Air - Joe Sherman
- The Meadowlands: Wilderness Adventures at the Edge of a City - Robert Sullivan
- The Particulate Air Pollution Controversy, a Case Study and Lessons Learned - Robert F. Phalen
- Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird - Andrew D. Blechman
- Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants - Robert Sullivan
- The Silent Killers: Indoor Air Pollution - Pete Billac
- Smoke and Mirrors: The Politics and Culture of Air Pollution - E. Melanie Depuis
- Toxic Air Pollution Handbook - David R. Patrick
- Washed Up: The Curious Journeys of Flotsam + Jetsam - Skye Moody
- Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash - Susan Strasser
RATIONALITY
- Atheism: The Case Against God - George H. Smith
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - Daniel C. Dennett
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason - Sam Harris
- Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
- Freethinkers: A history of American Secularism - Susan Jacoby
- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
- God, the Devil and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory - Niall Shanks
- Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings - Marcus Borg, Jack Cornfield, Ray Riegert
- Jesus Rode a Donkey - Linda Seger
- Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism - Michelle Goldberg
- Letter to a Christian Nation - Sam Harris
- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why - Bart D. Ehrman
- Why Christianity Must Change or Die - Bishop John Selby Spong
- Are Men Necessary? - Maureen Dowd
- Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
- Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism - Daniel Harris
- Freakanomics
- Keep Your Brain Alive
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America - Barbara Ehrenreich
- The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less - Barry Schwartz
- Saturday Night - Susan Orlean
- Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife - Mary Roach
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Mary Roach
- Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
