11 Top environment books like Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back by Kate Aronoff

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Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back

By: Kate Aronoff

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold visi…

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1. An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.44

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Her own powerful story up to 1972, told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction. With an intr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"I sank deep into the moment, husbanding this delight, hoarding it. For I knew it would be short-lived. Work. Struggle. Confrontation lay before us like a rock-strewn road. We would walk it ... But fi…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

"This Booker T. Washington syndrome permeated every aspect of the education I received in Birmingham. Work hard and you will be rewarded. A corollary of this principle was that the road would be harde…"

-Angela Y. Davis, An Autobiography

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2. And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives

By: John M. Gottman , Julie Schwartz Gottman

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Having a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are strained during the trans… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Women, Race & Class

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.58

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From one of our most important scholars and civil rights activist icon, a powerful study of the wom… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"White women—feminists included—have revealed a historical reluctance to acknowledge the struggles of household workers. They have rarely been involved in the Sisyphean task of ameliorating the condit…"

-Angela Y. Davis, Women, Race & Class

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4. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

By: Naomi Klein

4.52

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this groundbreaking alternative history of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedm… read more

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6. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

By: Naomi Klein

3.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about global warming. It's not about carbon - it's about capit… read more

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7. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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8. Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- And What It Means for Our Future

By: Dale Jamieson

2.96

Format: 7 pages, Hardcover

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted inte… read more

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9. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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10. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • audiobook
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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11. 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

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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12. Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

By: Shane Parrish

4.21

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFew things will change your trajectory in life or business as m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"The social rewards for going with the crowd are felt long before the benefits of going against it are gained."

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

"Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually…"

-Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

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13. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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14. The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

By: Jeff Goodell

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The world is waking up to a new wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting… read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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15. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

By: Sarah Jaffe

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A deeply-reported examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
"Freedom was there, the neoliberals argued, you just had to purchase it."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"Neoliberalism encourages us to think that everything we want and need must be found with a price tag attached."

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

"The majority of people who work in the arts will identify themselves as liberal to left wing, often radical left wing. This is going from the poorest artist to the highest paid curators in institutio…"

-Sarah Jaffe, Work Won't Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

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17. The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

By: Shon Faye

4.55

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Trans people in Britain today have become a culture war 'issue'. Despite making up less than 1% of … read more

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  • activism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement's muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"The idea that conspicuous consumption is a route to sexual and gender freedom has been effective in allowing the LGBT movement’s muscles to atrophy. In a godless age, there are new ways to give the m…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

"Together, an LGBTQ+ coalition with class consciousness and anti-racism at its core must recover its radicalism and reaffirm its opposition to capitalism and patriarchy. Infighting and division are in…"

-Shon Faye, The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice

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18. 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

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
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19. How to Blow Up a Pipeline

By: Andreas Malm

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The science on climate change has been clear for a very long time now. Yet despite decades of appea… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • climate change
  • environment
  • science
"The context for hope is radical uncertainty; anything could happen, and whether we act or not has everything to do with it."

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

"I once asked Bill McKibben, after an energising speech to a capacity crowd, when – given that the situation is as urgent as he portrayed it and we all know it is – we escalate. He was visibly ill at …"

-Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline

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20. Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

By: Sue Burke

3.91

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on… read more

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  • audiobook
"Equality is not a fact, like the length of days... Equality is an idea, a belief, like beauty."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"A Pax day and night lasted about twenty Earth hours, and a Pax year about 490 Earth days. A year seemed like such a long time."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"I have a significant and inescapable communication to enter into with them. Animals never grow smarter, but I do. Ours will be a rewarding relationship."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

"... what bothered them more were the pink slugs twenty centimeters long they found eating old carcasses. The slugs would attack anything and dissolved living flesh on contact."

-Sue Burke, Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)

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21. The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

By: Greta Thunberg

4.40

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, … read more

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  • audiobook
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
"The richest 1 per cent of the world's population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon pollution as the people who make up the poorest half of humanity."

-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

"The transformation we need in order to stay below 1.5 C or even 2 C of warming may not be politically possible today. But we are the ones who determine what will be politically possible tomorrow."

-Greta Thunberg, The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

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22. The Peace: A Warrior's Journey

By: Roméo Dallaire

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

International humanitarian icon and bestselling author General Roméo Dallaire guides readers on a c… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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23. On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

By: Naomi Klein

4.18

Format: 11 pages, Audiobook

#1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author Naomi Klein makes the case for a Green New… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
"We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"It just so happens that we are all alive at the last possible moment when changing course can mean saving lives on a truly unimaginable scale."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"Too often, when politicians introduce climate policies divorced from a broader agenda of economic justice, the policies they introduce are actively unjust."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

"A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy."

-Naomi Klein, On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal

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24. The Deluge

By: Stephen Markley

4.23

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more

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  • climate change
  • audiobook
"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."

-Stephen Markley, The Deluge

Cover of The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists by Naomi Klein

25. The Battle for Paradise: Puerto Rico Takes on the Disaster Capitalists

By: Naomi Klein

4.23

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Fearless necessary reporting . . . Klein exposes the 'battle of utopias' that is currently unfoldin… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • activism
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World by Gaia Vince

26. Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

By: Gaia Vince

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“We are facing a species emergency. We can survive, but to do so will require a planned and deliber… read more

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  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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27. Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

By: Douglas Rushkoff

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The tech elite have a plan to survive the apocalypse: they want to leave us all behind. Five mys… read more

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  • science
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • audiobook
"Their extreme wealth and privilege served only to make them obsessed with insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migration, global pand…"

-Douglas Rushkoff, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires

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28. Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

By: George Monbiot

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A sharp, fiercely argued takedown of neoliberalism that not only defines this slippery concept but … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • environment
  • audiobook
Cover of The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin

29. The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth

By: Jeremy Rifkin

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An urgent plan to confront climate change, transform the American economy, and create a green post-… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • science
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30. Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet--And How We Fight Back

By: Kate Aronoff

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This damning account of the forces that have hijacked progress on climate change shares a bold visi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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  • climate change
  • economics
  • environment
  • nature
  • science
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31. The Mercy of Gods (The Captive’s War, #1)

By: James S.A. Corey

4.24

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

How humanity came to the planet called Anjiin is lost in the fog of history, but that history is ab… read more

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