My recent research has been into how people talk about themselves in relation to books in Book Groups. Here’s a list of books the book group I’ve been involved in has read and discussed. All books are predominantly narrative and concern some aspect of people’s relationships with nature and the environment:
Memoirs and Essays Read in Our Book Group
Roger Deakin, Wildwood A Journey Through Trees
Henry David Thorough, Walden or Life in the Woods
Linda Hogan, The Woman Who Watches Over the World
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss
Scott Russell Sanders, A Private History of Awe
Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder: Essays
Kathleen Jamie, Findings
Alan Weisman, Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
Esther Woolfson, Corvus, a Life with Birds
Fiction Read in Our Book Group
David Almond, Skellig
Starhawk, The Fifth Sacred Thing
Jim Crumley, Mountain of Light
Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer
Jay Griffiths, Anarchipelago
Frances Hobson Burnett, The Secret Garden
David Quinn, Ishmael
Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault
The following additional books have been recommended by book group members including myself:
Memoirs and Essays (recommended)
Terry Tempest Williams, Refuge
Lisa Couturier, The Hopes of Snakes
Richard Nelson, The Island Within
David Quammen, Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
Kim R. Stafford, Having Everything Right: Essays of Place
John Valliant, The Golden Spruce, A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
Phillip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect
David Suzuki, The Sacred Balance
Tove Jansen, The Summer Book
Betsy Whyte, Yellow on the Broom
Andrew Greig, In the Loch of the Green Corrie
Gerald Durrell, Corfu
Fiction (recommended)
Marge Piercy, Woman at the Edge of Time
Scott Russell Sanders, Terrarium
Ursula K LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia
W H Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago
John McGahern, That They May Face the Rising Sun
Ursula K LeGuin, The Word for World in Forest
Julie Bretagna, Exodus
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
William Horwood, Duncton Wood
Richard Adams, Watership Down
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
Alice Walker, Now is the Time to Open Your Heart
Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
Poetry (recommended)
Mary Oliver, House of Light
