6 must-read climate change books like Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World by Paul Bogard

Cover of Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World by Paul Bogard

Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

By: Paul Bogard

4.31

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in …

If you liked the climate change plot in Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World by Paul Bogard , here is a list of 6 books like this:

1. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

3.65

Format: 192 pages,

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

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2. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

Similar categories in Amy Tan's The Backyard Bird Chronicles book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
  • science
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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3. How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

By: Sabrina Imbler

4.12

Format: 263 pages, Hardcover

A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation journal… read more

Similar categories in Sabrina Imbler's How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • nature
  • science
"But when I think about ponds infested with gallon-big goldfish, I feel a kind of triumph. I see something that no one expected to live not just alive but impossibly flourishing, and no longer alone. …"

-Sabrina Imbler, How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

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4. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more

Similar categories in Ruha Benjamin's Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • theory
  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. Creep: Accusations and Confessions

By: Myriam Gurba

4.37

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A ruthless and razor-sharp essay collection that tackles the pervasive, creeping oppression and tox… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Gurba's Creep: Accusations and Confessions book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Embedded within these systems of family, friendship, and community, these creepy men may appear harmless, their evil obscured by a benign collective presence, a fog of sorts. This softness swaddles a…"

-Myriam Gurba, Creep: Accusations and Confessions

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6. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration

By: Jake Bittle

4.28

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more

Similar categories in Jake Bittle's The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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7. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Klein's Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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8. 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

Similar categories in Leah Thomas's The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
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9. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood

By: Lucy Jones

4.54

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Jones's Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • science
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10. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
  • anthologies
  • essays
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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11. The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands

By: Jon Billman

3.69

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's fascinating, in-depth look at people w… read more

Similar categories in Jon Billman's The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
  • nature
Cover of There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

12. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

By: Hanif Abdurraqib

4.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more

Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • essays
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"

-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

Cover of Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains by Alexa  Hagerty

13. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Hagerty's Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • science
Cover of The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

14. The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

By: J.B. MacKinnon

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and … read more

Similar categories in J.B. MacKinnon's The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even st…"

-J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

Cover of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka

15. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

By: Kyle Chayka

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture it… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Chayka's Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
  • science
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16. The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

4.19

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more

Similar categories in Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • theory
  • nonfiction
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

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17. You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

By: Ada Limon

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Published association  with the Library of Congress and edited by the twenty-fourth Poet Laureate o… read more

Similar categories in Ada Limon's You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nature
  • ecology
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • environment
Cover of Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals by Christopher J. Preston

18. Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals

By: Christopher J. Preston

4.09

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons abou… read more

Similar categories in Christopher J. Preston's Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World by Paul Bogard

19. Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

By: Paul Bogard

4.31

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in … read more

Similar categories in Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • ecology
  • memoir
  • theory
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism by Robert Chapman

20. Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism

By: Robert Chapman

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

‘Groundbreaking … [provides] a deep history of the  invention of the “normal” mind as one of the mo… read more

Similar categories in Robert Chapman's Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains by Clayton Page Aldern

21. The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains

By: Clayton Page Aldern

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For readers of Kolbert's Under a White Sky and Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life , to all those who… read more

Similar categories in Clayton Page Aldern's The Weight of Nature: How a Changing Climate Changes Our Brains book and Paul Bogard's Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

  • nature
  • ecology
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science

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Amy Tan

4.14

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Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

Ruha Benjamin

4.47

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Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba

4.37

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Brian Klaas

4.13

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Becca Rothfeld

3.76

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