19 Top nonfiction books like A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray

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A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late mille…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.05

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more

Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable

2. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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3. 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 Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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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

Similar categories in Leah Thomas's The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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5. The Ministry for the Future

By: Kim Stanley Robinson

3.88

Format: 563 pages, Hardcover

Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more

Similar categories in Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry for the Future book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • climate change
  • politics
  • environment
"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"

-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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7. L'incredibile viaggio delle piante

By: Stefano Mancuso

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Come le piante navigano intorno al mondo, come portano la vita su isole sterili, come sono state in… read more

Similar categories in Stefano Mancuso's L'incredibile viaggio delle piante book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
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8. As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock

By: Dina Gilio-Whitaker

4.36

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call … read more

Similar categories in Dina Gilio-Whitaker's As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • nature
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
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9. The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

By: Meg Lowman

4.05

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationis… read more

Similar categories in Meg Lowman's The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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10. Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

By: Thich Nhat Hanh

4.38

Format: 320 pages, ebook

In this masterful work, one of the most revered spiritual leaders in the world today shares his wis… read more

Similar categories in Thich Nhat Hanh's Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • climate change
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
"Sometimes even if we think we want to be heard, we're not always ready for it."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

"We can make the most of the Earth and benefit from its beauty, but in such a way that we respect the Earth, just as a bee respects the flower."

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

"You trust that you contain the whole cosmos; you are made of stars. And that is why you respect yourself and offer reverence to yourself. And, when you look at another person, you see that they are a…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

"This is the attitude of bodhisattvas: to practice meditation not only for yourself, but for the world, to relieve the suffering. And, when others suffer less, you suffer less. When you suffer less, t…"

-Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet

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11. 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 Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
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12. Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

By: Jason Hickel

4.51

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we mu… read more

Similar categories in Jason Hickel's Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Individuality is an illusion. Life on this planet is an interwoven mesh of relational becoming."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"We will find ourselves plunging into ecological collapse well before we run into the limits to growth."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"It is politically easier to rev up GDP and hope some of it trickles down to the poor than it is to distribute existing income more fairly."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

"Atmospheric carbon concentration should not breach 350ppm if the climate is to remain stable (we crossed that boundary in 1990, and hit 415ppm in 2020)."

-Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

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13. 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

Similar categories in Ayana Elizabeth Johnson's All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

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

14. 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

Similar categories in Katharine Hayhoe's Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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15. Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science

By: Jessica Hernandez

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An Indigenous environmental scientist breaks down why western conservationism isn’t working–and off… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Hernandez's Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes Through Indigenous Science book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation by Jen Gunter

16. Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

By: Jen Gunter

4.25

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Jen Gunter fights myths and fear-mongering with real science, inclusive facts, and shame-free a… read more

Similar categories in Jen Gunter's Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • nonfiction
  • science
"Reproducing a human is a massive biological effort. Energy-wise, it's on par with the limits of the most extreme sports, for example, running 5,000 km (3,000 miles) over 120 days or cycling the Tour …"

-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

"When it comes to painful periods, there is an epidemic of undertreatment. Women's pain is undertreated in general, as compared to men's, but painful periods have historically been seen as a "woman th…"

-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

"Unfortunately, instead of a world where those who bear the physical burdens of reproduction—whether they reproduce or not—have equal footing, we have the opposite. The Ancient Greeks, the originators…"

-Jen Gunter, Blood: The Science, Medicine, and Mythology of Menstruation

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17. Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

By: Rebecca Solnit

3.98

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called the voice of the re… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Solnit's Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • politics
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"To hope is to accept despair as an emotion but not as an analysis. To recognize that what is unlikely is possible, just as what is likely is not inevitable. To understand that difficult is not the sa…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"What gives me hope is that human history is full of examples of people across the ages who have risen to face the great challenges of their time and have succeeded. Victory is not the arrival in some…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

"These are among the many foundation stones of this new world we have built, and the work continues. I know all this seemed impossible a decade ago, when it felt as if everything was falling apart and…"

-Rebecca Solnit, Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Cover of Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America by Jonathan Vigliotti

18. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America

By: Jonathan Vigliotti

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of This Changes Everything and Saving Us , a character-driven and shocking up-close loo… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Vigliotti's Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
Cover of Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis by Britt Wray

19. Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis

By: Britt Wray

3.96

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

An impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption. Climate and… read more

Similar categories in Britt Wray's Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • psychology
  • mental health
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
Cover of A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet by Sarah Jaquette Ray

20. A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

By: Sarah Jaquette Ray

4.11

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”—late mille… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • science
  • politics
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • sustainability
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • self help
Cover of California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline by Rosanna Xia

21. California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

By: Rosanna Xia

4.66

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

From a celebrated environmental journalist, the riveting exploration of sea level rise along the We… read more

Similar categories in Rosanna Xia's California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline book and Sarah Jaquette Ray's A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet

  • nature
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"Resilience includes knowing when an unwanted transformation is inevitable."

-Rosanna Xia, California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline

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4.28

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4.17

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4.22

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4.11

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