Looking for a good book?
Check out the past book group selections:
2020
• The Wild Trees: a Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
• Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Mills
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy
• The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us by Diane Ackerman
• Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton
• Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
• Crossing Paths by Rick Van de Poll
• A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
2021
• The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
• Winter Word by Bernd Heinrich
• The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
• Horizon by Barry Lopez
• Mill Town by Kerri Arsenault
• Women of the Dawn by Bunny McBride
• Puffin Project by Stephen Kress & Derrick Jackson
• Suddenly the Cider Didn’t Taste so Good by John Ford
• Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
• A World on the Wing by Scott Weidensaul
• No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
• The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
2022
• Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
• Plastic Ocean by Charles Moore
• Fuzz by Mary Roach
• Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid by Thor Hanson
• Swamplands by Edward Struzik
• Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• the Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson
• Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman
• The Hard Way by Mark Jenkins
• The Lives of Bees by Thomas Seeley
• Bright Green Future by Gregory Schwartz and Trevor Decker Cohen
• Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
2023
• The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D’Anieri
• When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce
• How to Catch a Mole by Marc Hamer
• Fen, Bog and Swamp by Annie Proulx
• The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks by Donald R. Prothero
• Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar
• Underland; A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
• An Immense World by Ed Yong
• Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght
• Plastic a Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel
• This Land of Snow by Anders Morley
2024
• Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
• Not Too Late by Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua
• Brave the Wild River by Melissa Sevigny
• The Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer
• Crossings by Ben Goldfarb
• Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
• Fire Weather by John Valliant
• Animal Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• Golden Wings & Hairy Toes by Todd McLeish
• Birding to Change the World by Trish O’Kane
• You are Here, Poems of Nature by Ada Limon
• The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
2025:
- The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
- Coyote America by Dan Flores
- How to Love a Forest by Ethan Tapper
- Seed to Dust by Marc Hamer
Upcoming Selections:
- May: A Life on our Planet by David Attenborough
- June: The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
- July: Calling Wild Places Home by Laura Waterman
- August: The Big Burn by Timothy Egan
- September: Everyone’s Trash by Duncan Watson
- October: What an Owl Knows by Jennifer Ackerman
Like to read? Join the Tin Mountain Environmental Book Club. It meets the first Wednesday of every month at 4 pm. Meetings are in person with an online option.
We read a diversity of topics and genres with the common thread of the natural world. Suggestions are welcomed so if you have a recommendation, please let us know! The book club meets monthly and all are welcome, whether you’ve finished (or started) the book or not!
If you are interested in joining us, please contact Nora Dufilho.
Tin Mountain’s Environmental Book Group is sponsored in part by White Birch Books of North Conway.
