9 Best nonfiction books like There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities by Ingrid R.G. Waldron

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There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities

By: Ingrid R.G. Waldron

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism…

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1. 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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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. If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

By: Noor Naga

3.92

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobr… read more

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4. Diary of a Young Naturalist

By: Dara McAnulty

4.21

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of 15-year-old Dara McAnulty's world. From sprin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"Many people accuse me of “not looking autistic"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I have the heart of a naturalist, the head of a would-be scientist, and bones of someone who is already wearied by the apathy and destruction wielded against the natural world."

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"As I ran to join my family for the last stretch of the walk at Glendalough, leaving St Kevin and the blackbird behind, a solar glare draped over us, connected us to the land with invisible strings. A…"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

"I'm surrounded by five or six fly agaric mushrooms. Like them, I have burst open. I feel more resilient, more powerful. [...] I can't just love the natural world. I have to raise my voice even louder…"

-Dara McAnulty, Diary of a Young Naturalist

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5. What Strange Paradise

By: Omar El Akkad

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more

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  • politics
  • social justice
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"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

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6. Greenwood

By: Michael Christie

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more

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  • environment
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"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

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7. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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8. 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act

By: Bob Joseph

4.57

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Based on a viral article, 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act is the essential guide to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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9. The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

By: Joe Sexton

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An account of two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests that explor… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
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10. Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

By: Elizabeth Kolbert

4.10

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction returns to humanity’s transformative impa… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
"I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"He’s a burly man with sparse white hair and a white beard who looks like Santa might look if Santa, in the off-season, carried a tackle box."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

"Here I was, trying to finish a book about the world spinning out of control, only to find the world spinning so far out of control that I couldn't finish the book."

-Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

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11. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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12. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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13. The Circle

By: Katherena Vermette

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and #1 bestselling author of The Break and The Strangers comes a poignant an… read more

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  • canada
  • indigenous
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14. Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada

By: Michelle Good

4.44

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

Abold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experi… read more

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  • canada
  • politics
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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15. All the Quiet Places

By: Brian Thomas Isaac

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Brian Isaac's powerful debut novel All the Quiet Places is the coming-of-age story of Eddie Toma, a… read more

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16. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • environment
  • science
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17. The Listeners

By: Jordan Tannahill

3.42

Format: 304 pages, ebook

A propulsive literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound th… read more

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18. Pollution Is Colonialism

By: Max Liboiron

4.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In Pollution is Colonialism Max Liboiron presents a framework for understanding scientific research… read more

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  • academic
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • environment
  • science
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19. Dance with Me

By: Georgia Beers

4.21

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Is there anything worse than your I-don’t-do-commitment ex finally getting married? Not according t… read more

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20. Animal Person

By: Alexander MacLeod

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new book of short fiction from the O. Henry Prize winner Alexander MacLeod―a… read more

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21. There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities

By: Ingrid R.G. Waldron

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

In There's Something In The Water, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism… read more

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  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
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  • activism
  • environment
  • science

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