Book recommendations – iamtreefarm

Some of my all-time favorites, by genre, and in no particular order.

Society & Politics

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World by Rutger Bregman
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future by Steven Levitsky
No Logo by Naomi Klein
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley

Educated by Tara Westover
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Night by Elie Wiesel
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
A House in the Sky: A Memoir by Amanda Lindhout
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle
“Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!”: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
We Will Be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene by Simon L. Lewis
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein
Being Ecological by Timothy Morton
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable by Amitav Ghosh
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out? by. Bill McKibben
Ecology of Wisdom by Arne Næss

Essays by George Orwell
All About Love by bell hooks
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Letters to A Young Contrarian by Christopher Hitchens
This One Wild and Precious Life: A Hopeful Path Forward in a Fractured World by Sarah Wilson
Warmth: Coming of Age at the End of the World by Daniel Sherrell
What If This Were Enough? by Heather Havrilesky
I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel
Portable Magic by Emma Smith
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
On Animals by Susan Orlean