2021 Booklist

Wow, what a year!

In terms of general reading themes, I started with a heavy climate-focus at the beginning of the year. Climate change is a hyperobject, and it’s useful to approach it from varying disciplines and rhetorical techniques. Midway through the year, though, I felt kinda saturated with this topics. Which lead to bifurcating themes for the rest of the books:

1. Appreciating the hell out of the natural world. There’s no better way to honor & respect our planet than by going deep on it! Biology, geology, chemistry, ecology, gimme all of it :)
2. Digging into the historical/political/financial reasons for why we wound up here. Sadly I see now that, in terms of climate change, we as a species know exactly what’s going on and what we would need to do to fix it. It’s the money/power systems in place that prevent us from taking swift(er) action. So basically ya girl is finally learning econ 101.

Enjoy! I hope you find a good recommendation or two.

Climate :(

• The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
• Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
• The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
• Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
• All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

Nature :)

• Certainly More Than You Want to Know About the Fishes of the Pacific Coast
• Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats
• Coral Whisperers: Scientists on the Brink
• The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
• Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Culture Systems

• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
• Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name
• Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
• The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy

Culture Feelings

• Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent
• Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class
• Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

until next year, loves :)