recced by ecrituria "Nature writing is a relatively new genre to me—I’m teaching several texts that would be considered “nature writing” this semester, but there’s obviously much I haven’t read. I’m considering “nature writing” here to be a relatively broad category, texts where the land or nature is integral to the world being depicted."

Traditional nature writing:

• My First Summer in the Sierra, John Muir
• Walden, Thoreau (it’s a classic but also probably the exact type of book you find lacking)

Contemporary nature writing (nonfiction):

• Horizon, Barry Lopez
• Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane (or anything by him, really)
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard
• Lab Girl, Hope Jahren (memoir)
• Trace, Lauret Savoy (memoir)
• Upstream, Mary Oliver (personal essays)

On climate change/human influence on nature:

• The End of Nature, Bill McKibben
• Silent Spring, Rachel Carson
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Elizabeth Kolbert

Misc.:

• Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape, Raja Shehadeh