9 must-read science books like A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate

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A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

By: Vanessa Nakate

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—build a livable future for all…

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1. The Book of Joan

By: Lidia Yuknavitch

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending… read more

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  • feminism

2. Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening

By: Manal Al-Sharif

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Hardcover

A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the… read more

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3. The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature

By: David George Haskell

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

A biologist reveals the secret world hidden in a single square meter of forest. In this wholly orig… read more

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4. The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet

By: Leah Thomas

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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5. Was weiße Menschen nicht über Rassismus hören wollen (Aber wissen sollten)

By: Alice Hasters

4.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Warum ist es eigentlich so schwer, über Rassismus zu sprechen? „Darf ich mal deine Haare anfasse… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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6. Algues vertes, l'histoire interdite

By: Inès Léraud

4.49

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Pas moins de 3 hommes et 40 animaux ont été retrouvés morts sur les plages bretonnes. L’identité du… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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7. Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

By: Dipo Faloyin

4.43

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful ster… read more

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  • politics
  • africa
  • nonfiction
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8. Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

By: George Monbiot

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

"This remarkable book, staring curiously down at the soil beneath our feet, points us convincingly … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Charity is what happens when government fails."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Obesity is a communicable disease. Its vectors are corporations."

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

"Campaigners, chefs, and food writers rail against “intensive farming,"

-George Monbiot, Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

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9. A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

By: Vanessa Nakate

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto and memoir about climate justice and how we can—and must—build a livable future for all… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Nakate's A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis book and Vanessa Nakate's A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis

  • africa
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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10. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

By: Christiana Figueres

4.07

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. Ho… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Consumerism traps us into thinking we can purchase personality."

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

"Denying climate change is tantamount to saying you don't believe in gravity. The science of climate change is not a belief, a religion, or a political ideology. It presents the facts that are measura…"

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

"Fair allocation of the remaining atmospheric space has proven to be a futile exercise no matter the formula. A fair outcome is not viable as long as we pursue it from a mindset of scarcity and compet…"

-Christiana Figueres, The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis

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11. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

By: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

4.45

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are har… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe

12. Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World

By: Katharine Hayhoe

4.31

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

United Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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13. What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

By: Emma Dabiri

4.41

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the spirit of We Should All Be Feminists and How to Be an Antiracist, a… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • activism
"This racialized ordering of the world is endemic to a system that has inculcated us all with a scarcity mindset, which is a great deal at odds with the abundance that truly exists in the world."

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Racial categories were invented to enshrine the idea of white supremacy. They are the product of Eurocentrism and colonialism. To act in ways that reinforce their fixedness rather than undermine them…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Universal healthcare, free education, access to decent and affordable housing, safe working conditions, and occupations that provide a sense of fulfillment and meaning are all pretty basic and fundam…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

"Investment in the absoluteness of racial categories is in fact a conservative, fearful choice. What would be truly radical would be to sound the death knoll for the fiction that white people constitu…"

-Emma Dabiri, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition

Cover of Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena Ernman

14. Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

By: Malena Ernman

3.73

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

"An extraordinary account of how one family rose, with unshakable moral clarity, to the tremendous … read more

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  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Polvere sei e in polvere ritornerai, diciamo. Tutto ciò che una volta ha avuto vita riposerà nella terra, diciamo. Poi qualcuno ha scoperto un sacco di petrolio e il riposo della terra è finito. Abbi…"

-Malena Ernman, Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis

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15. The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life

By: Simran Jeet Singh

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring approach to a happier, more fulfilling life through Sikh teachings on love and service… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. Die Sommer

By: Ronya Othmann

4.36

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Das Dorf liegt in Nordsyrien, nahe zur Türkei. Jeden Sommer verbringt Leyla dort. Sie riecht und sc… read more

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17. The Last Daughter

By: Brenda Matthews

4.32

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

An unmissable First Nations memoir that tells of the shattering experience of being stolen, The Las… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. These Letters End in Tears

By: Musih Tedji Xaviere

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in a country where being gay is punishable by law, These Letters End in Tears is the heart-wren… read more

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  • africa
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19. The Raven and the Dove (The Raven and the Dove, #1)

By: Kaitlyn Davis

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

Four fates collide in this avian-inspired, epic fantasy retelling of Tristan and Isolde perfect for… read more

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20. How Women Can Save The Planet

By: Anne Karpf

4.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A smart, bold and inclusive call to arms: we can fix the climate emergency by fighting for gender e… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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21. Les lendemains d'hier

By: Ali Bécheur

4.13

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Roman. read more

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Alice Hasters

4.51

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Dipo Faloyin

4.43

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