Recommended Readings
This list comes from ENVS undergrads responding to the question, "What are you reading now?" (May 2023)
| A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara |
| America is in the Heart | Carlos Bulosan |
| Botany of desire | Michael Pollan |
| Autobiography of Yogi | Paramahansa Yogananda |
| Backyard Pharmacy | Elizabeth Millard |
| Bad Feminst | Roxcan Grey |
| Bad Indians | Deborah Miranda |
| Becoming | Michelle Obama |
| Beloved | Toni Morrison |
| Borderlands/ La Frontera | Gloria Anzaldua |
| Braiding Sweetgrass | Robin Wall Kimerer |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
| Caged Warrior | Alan Lawrence Sitomer |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell |
| Coasts in Crisis | Gary Griggs |
| Death at Seaworld | David Kirby |
| Dreaming in Cuban | Cristina Garcia |
| Drunk | Edward Slingerland |
| Entangled Life | Sheldrake |
| Fast Food Nation | Eric Schlosser |
| Fictions | Jorge Luis Burges |
| Flicker in the Clarity | Amy Menamara |
| Freakonomics: economic of everyday things |
Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
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| House of Leaves | Mark Z Danielewski |
| How many of these hills is gold | C Pam Zheng |
| How to be a Good Creature | Sy Montgomery |
| I Contain Multitudes | Ed Yong |
| Into the Wild | Jon Krakauer |
| Island of a thousand mirrors | Sy Montgomery |
| Island of a thousand mirrors | Nayomi Munaweera |
| Jepson Manual for keying out Plants | Willis Linn |
| Just Kids | Patti Smith |
| Kiss the ground | Woody Harrelson |
| Lapuona | Otessa Moshfegg |
| Looking for alaska | John Green |
| Metamorpheses | Ovid |
| Motivations | Rene Descartes |
| Name of the Wind | Patrick Rothfuss |
| Natural History of Ano Nuevo | Bernard Le Boeuf |
| Omnivore's dilema | Michael Pollon |
| On earth we're Briefly gorgeous | Ocean Vuong |
| One flew over the cukoos nest | Ken Kesey |
| Parash of a sower | Octevie Buttler |
| Percy Jackson | Rick Riordan |
| Perfume | Patrick Suskind |
| Perks of being a Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky |
| Player Piano | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Queer Ecologies | Nicole Seymour |
| Reading the Glass | Elliot Rassapot |
| Regenesis | George Monbiot |
| Sakamoto Days (Manga) | Yuto Suzuki |
| Schooling in Capitalistic America | Bowles and Gintis |
| Self Aware Universe | Amit Goswami |
| Shade | Pete Souza |
| Silent Spring | Rachel Carson |
| Silicon City | Cary Molleland |
| Six of Crows | Leigh Bardugo |
| Slaughter House Fine | Kurt Vonnegut |
| Soul of an octapus | Sy Montgomery |
| South to America | Imani Perry |
| The Alice Network | Kate Quinn |
| The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Suzanne Collins |
| The Chaos Machine | Maz Fisher |
| The Codebreakers | Jennifer Dadna |
| The Dhammapada | Gil Fronsdal |
| The Emissary | Yoko Tawada |
| The Final Girl Support Group | Grady Hendrix |
| The Foler Agreemenets | Don Miguel Ruiz |
| The Four Agreements | The four Agreemenets |
| The Grip of it | Jae Jene |
| The high Sierra | Kim Stanley Robinson |
| The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| The Mountain is You | Brianna Wiest |
| The New Jim Crow | Michelle Alexander |
| The Omnivore's Dilemma | Michael Pollon |
| The Ordinary | Jim Grinsley |
| The Power of Now | Eckhart Tolle |
| The Proxy of the Orange Tree | Samantha Shannon |
| The Road Between | Courtney Peppernell |
| The Snow Leopard | Peter Mathiessen |
| The souvenir Museum | Elizabeth Mccracken |
| The Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff |
| The tipping point | Maconn Gladwell |
| The way I used to be | Amber Smith |
| The way of the Peaceful Warrior | Dan Milman |
| The Westing Game | Ellen Raskin |
| Then There Were None | Agatha Christie |
| This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs the Climate | Naomi Klein |
| Where the Crawdads sing | Delia Owens |
| White Teeth | Zadie Smith |
| Why We Sleep | Mathew Walker |
| You should really see someone | Lori Gottlieb |
Environmental, Economic, Historical and Sociological Readings Recommended by Students in Environmental Studies (updated August 2023)
Anti-Racist Reading List
| Me and White Supremacy | Layla Saad |
| White fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism | Robin DiAngelo |
| So You Want To Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo |
| Waking Up White | Debby Irving |
| How to Be An Anti-Racist | Ibram X. Kendi |
| Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi |
| The Souls of Black Folk | WEB Dubois |
| White Bred: Hillbillies, White Trash, and Rednecks Against White Supremacy | Eric Kerl |
| Essays / articles | |
| Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack | Peggy McIntosh |
| Whiteness as property | Cheryl Harris |
| 9 Rules for the Black Birdwatcher | J. Drew Lanham |
Robin Kelley - Freedom Dreams
Isabel Wilkerson - Caste
The Political Mine by George Lakoff
Pedagogy of the Oppressed - Paulo Freire
People's Guide to Capitalism - Hadas Thier
Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression
The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois
Our Revolution, Bernie Sanders
Maurizio Lazarato, Capital Hates Everyone
The Combahee River Collective Statement
People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn (freely available through History is a Weapon)
Winning the Green New Deal
Mutual Aide, Dean Spade
Blueprint for the Revolution - Srđa Popović
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney
Communism For Kids - Bini Adamczak
Manufacturing Consent - Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
Bigger than Bernie - Megan Day and Micah Uetricht
The Socialist Manifesto - Bhaskar Sunkara
The Shock Doctrine - Naomi Klein
Why Marx was Right - Terry Eagleton
Critique of the Gotha Program - Karl Marx (Free PDF)
The Deficit Myth - Stephanie Kelton
The Case for Job Guarantee - Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Understanding Modern Money - Randall Wray
Debt - David Graeber
Declarations of Dependence: Money, Aesthetics, and the Politics of Care - Scott Ferguson
Further Reading
- Green Market Hustlers
- Climate Knowledge and Power: Tales of Skeptic Tanks, Weather Gods, and Sagas for Climate (In)justice by Michael K. Dorsey
- Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
- The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- An Examination Of A High School Horticulture Curriculum, Melanie Overstreet, Gary S. Straquadine
- The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel by Ralph L. Roys
- Popol Vuh: Literal Translation by Allen J. Christenson
- Understanding New York City (Various)
- The Natural World of New York City (Various)
- Internship Program Student Handbook
- Who is Alan Chadwick of UCSC's, "Chadwick Garden?"
Great Bookstores
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Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle
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Left Bank Books, Seattle
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Powell's, Portland
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City Lights, San Francisco
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Bookshop Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
