NATURALSELECTIONS
BOOK LISTBY AUTHOR:
Left to read in 2014:
Weidensaul, Scott. The Ghost with Trembling Wings; Science, Wishful Thinking and the Search for Lost Species.
Heinrich,Bernd. Summer world
10/2001–12/2014:
Abbey,Edward. Monkey Wrench Gang
Ackerman, Diane. Cultivating delight. A Natural History of the Senses, andThe Moon by
Whale Light; Adventures among bats, penguins, crocodiles and whales.
Ackerman,Jennifer.Ah-Choo. The uncommon life of the common cold, Notes from
The Shore.and Sex sleep eat drink dream:a day in the life of your body.
Angier, Natalie The canon; a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science.
Askins, Renée. Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild.
Badger, C. D. A Natural History of Quiet Waters
Barker, Rodney. And the waters turned to blood
Barr, Nevada. Mysteries selected by members.
Beston,Henry. Outermost House
Bryson, Bill. A Walk in the Woods
Carroll, David M.The Swampwalker’s Journal: a Wetlands Year
Carson,Rachel. Silent Spring
Cousteau,Jacques.Silent World
Darwin, Charles.Origin of the Species (Chapters Into, 1-4 and last)
de Villiers, Marq.Water: The Fate of our most Precious Resource
Dillard, Annie. Pilgrimat Tinker Creek
Dinerstein, Eric. Tigerland and other unintended destinations.
D'Orso,Michael.PlunderofParadise
Douglas,Marjory Stoneman. Everglades: River of Grass
Dunne, Pete. Bayshore Summer;Finding Eden in a Most UnlikelyPlace
Finch, Robert, editor. The Norton book of nature writing.
Fishman, Charles. The big thirst: the secret life & turbulent future of water.
Fletcher, Colin. The Man Who Walked Through Time.
Florio,Tony.Progger.
Fortey,Richard.Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: the story of the animals and plants
that time has left behind
Garte, Seymour Where We Stand.
Gessner, David.Return of the Osprey;A Season of Flight and Wonder
Glick, Daniel. Monkey Dancing.
Goodall, Jane. Hope for animals and their world; how endangeredspecies
are being rescued
Gordon, Deborah Ants at Work
Gore,Al.An Inconvenient Truth
Gould, Stephen Jay. Bully forBrontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History,and The
Flamingo's Smile
Greenberg, Paul. Four Fish: the future of the last wild food; cod, sea bass,
tuna and salmon.
Haskell,David.The Forest Unseen; A Year's Watch in Nature.
Hay, John, ed. The Great House of Birds; Classic Writings About Birds
Hays,Samuel P. Environmental Politics.
Heacox, Kim.The Only Kayak: A Journey into the Heart of Alaska.
Heinrich, Bernd Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds.
The Trees in My Forest. Winter world: the ingenuity of animal survival.
Heller, Peter. The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the bottom of the world to Save the
planets largest mammals.
Hiaasen,Carl. Paradise Screwed.
Hohn, Donovan. Moby Duck: the true story of 28,000 bath toys lost at sea and of the beachcombers, oceanographers, environmentalists, and fool, including the author, who went in search of them.
Hope, Ryden.Lily Pond: Four Years with a Family of Beavers
Horton, Tom. An Island Out of Time; A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake
Hubbell, Sue From a Country Year: Living the Questions.Waiting for Aphrodite
Humes, Edward. Monkey Girl; evolution, education, religion, and the battle for America’s soul.
Hurston, Zora Neale. TheirEyes Were Watching God
Jacques, Bian. Redwall (Book 1)
Jenkins, Peter. Along the Edge of America,
Jewett,Sarah Orne,Country of Pointed Firs
Kantner, Seth. Shopping for Porcupine.
Karlen,Arno. Biography of a Germ
Kingsolver, Barbara. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Prodigal Summer, Small Wonder
Klinkenborg, Verlyn. Timothy, or, Notes of an Abject Reptile.
Koeppel, Dan. Banana: TheFate of the Fruit That Changed the World
Kurlansky, Mike.Cod.
Leopold,Aldo. Sand County Almanac
Leslie, Clare Walker. Keeping a nature journal: discover a whole new way of seeing the
world
Longgood, William. The Queen Must Die and Other Affairs of Bees and Men.
Lorenz, Konrad. King Solomon's Ring.
Louv, Richard. Last child in the woods: saving our children from nature-deficit disorder.
Lunt,Dudley.Taylor's Gut
Lynch, Jim. The highest tide
McPhee, John. Pine Barrens
Martino, Teresa Tsimmu. The Wolf, the Woman, the Wilderness: a True Story ofReturning Home.
Martel,Yann.Life of Pi
Masson, Jeffrey. When Elephants Weep
Morton, Alexandra. Listening to Whales: What Orcas have taught us
Mowat, Farley.Never Cry Wolf: Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Muir, John.Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf. The Wild Muir;Twenty-two of John Muir’s
greatest adventures.
Mukherjee, Siddhartha. The emperor of all maladies: a biography of cancer.
Obmascik, Mark. The Big Year; A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession.
Orlean,Susan Orchid Thief.
Owen, David. Green Metropolis: Why living smaller, living closer and driving less are
the keys to sustainability.
Peiffer, Katrina. Coyote at Large: Humor in American nature Writing.
Peterson, Brenda. Sightings: The Gray Whales’ Mysterious Journey.
Peterson,Russell. Rebel with a Conscience.
Pollan,Michael.Botany of Desire. Food Rules; an eater'smanual.Omnivores Dilemma.
Poole, Joyce.Coming of Age with Elephants.
Prager, Ellen. Sex, drugs and sea slime.
Preston, Richard. The Wild Trees:A Story of Passion and Daring.
Pyle, Robert. Chasing Monarchs.
Quammen, David.The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Natureand
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places.
Riply, Matt. Genome: Autobiography of Species in 23 Chapters.
Roberts, Callum. The Ocean of Life:The Fate of Man and the Sea
Royte, Elizabeth.Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It
Garbage LandandThe Tapir's Morning Bath; Mysteries of the Tropical Rain
Forest.
Sachs, Oliver. Oaxaca Journal.
Safina, Carl. Song for the Blue Ocean. View from the Lazy Point.
Sargent,William.Crab Wars: A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism and Human
Health.
Scott, Eugenie C.Evolution vs. Creationism.
Skloot, Rebecca. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.
Spelman, L. & T. Mashima. The Rhino with Glue-on Shoes.
Spruch, Grace. Squirrels at My Window:Life With a Remarkable Gang of Urban
Squirrels.
Shubin, Neil.Your Inner Fish
Stewart, Amy. Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other
Botanical Atrocities.
Stolzenburg, William. Rat island : predators in paradise and the world's greatest wildlife
rescue andWhere the Wild Things Were.
Streever, Bill: Cold: adventures in the world's frozen places.
Stuart, Tristram. Waste: uncovering the global food scandal.
Teal,John& Mildred. Life and Death of a Salt Marsh.
Teale,Edwin Way.Autumn Across America, Journey into Summer, North with the
Sprin,.A Walk Through the Year, andWandering through winter.
Todd, Kim. Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis.
Warner, Wm. Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay.
Warwick, Hugh. The Hedgehog's Dilemma.
Weidensaul, Scott. Living on the wind; across the Hemisphere with migratory birds
Mountains of the Heart: a Natural History of the Appalachians, andReturn to
wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul.
Weiner, Jonathan. Beak of the Finch.
Weisman, Alan. The world without us.
Williams, Wendy. Kraken; The Curious, Exciting, and Slightly Disturbing
Science of Squid.
Williams, William.Man and nature in Delaware; an environmental
history of the first state, 1631-2000.
Wilson, Diane. An unreasonable woman : a true story of shrimpers, politicos, polluters,
and the fight for Seadrift, Texas.
Wilson, Edward O. Anthill; a novel.Consilience:The Unity of Knowledge. Creation,
The Naturalist and The Social Conquest of the Earth.
Winn, Marie. Red-Tails in Love:A wildlife Drama in Central Park.