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Great Environmental Books for Adults
 Compiled by Paul Mayes, Eastern Iowa Community College
 



Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, Barbara Kingsolver
Biophilia, E.O Wilson
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
The Emerald Horizon, Cornelia F. Mutel
Flush, Carl Hiaason
The Future of Life, E.O. Wilson
Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster, Jon Krakauer
Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv
The Mind of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux
My Antonia, Willa Cather
1984, George Orwell
Oh! Pioneers, Willa Cather
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver
The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
A River Runs Through it, Norman Maclean
Round River, Aldo Leopold
Run River Run: A Naturalist’s Journey Down One of the Great Rivers of the West, Ann Zwinger
Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
A Sense of Place, Wendell Berry
Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
Slickrock, Edward Abbey
The Valley of the Horses, Jean Auel
Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau
A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth, Tim Flannery
White Noise, Jon Delillo
Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean
Z is for Zachariah, Robert C. O'Brien
 

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