What to Read Next: Nature Writing Edition

If you’ve ever wondered how much people play a part in the world around us, this book is for you. Becoming Earth is a mesmerizing, thought-provoking account of our planet’s history, our effect on its well-being, and where we go from here.

Vibrant and poetic, compelling and gorgeously written, Ed Yong takes us on a journey through the wilds of our world. Read this and never be the same. (It’s no wonder he won the Pulitzer Prize.)

This is the story of one man’s hilarious, thought-provoking, occasionally catastrophic, and always enlightening trip along the Appalachian Trail. Bill Bryson’s droll humor and gifts of observation are unmatched, and here he is at the top of his game.  

Amy Tan’s stories of love and family have moved us for decades and now we get to experience birding through her eyes. The Backyard Bird Chronicles taps into the fascination with our avian friends and will delight readers of The Bird Way and What It’s Like to Be a Bird.

Mushrooms are so much more than a side dish on your dinner plate. Merlin Sheldrake’s Entangled Life introduces us to the wacky, wild and weird world living in our own backyards.

When was the last time you went outside and marveled at the greenery around you? An ode to the beauty of our world, The Language of Trees gathers poets, musicians, philosophers and more to unearth this new language we all ought to know, one that changes the way we walk through the world.