On a cool rainy Spring day, consider curling up with one of Hilltown Land Trust’s suggested reads to celebrate Earth Day!
Our staff, Board, and AmeriCorps members compiled a list of favorite books about the natural world and the history of our part of Massachusetts. We hope you enjoy reading these and find inspiration from them!
FICTION
- Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver
- Freedom by Jonathan Franzen
- Maddaddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood
- Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
- The Echomaker by Richard Powers
- The Overstory by Richard Powers
- Timothy, or Notes of an Abject Reptile by Verlyn Klinkenborg
NON-FICTION
- Bark: a field guide to the trees of the Northeast by Michael Wojtech
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation by Michael Keller and Nicole Rager Fuller
- Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
- Erosion by Terry Tempest Williams
- From Devil’s Den to Licking Water: the Mill River through landscape and history by John Sinton
- Gathering Moss: a natural and cultural history of mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
- In the Shadow of the Dam by Elizabeth Sharpe
- Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl
- Letters to a Young Scientist by E.O. Wilson
- Naturally Curious: a photographic field guide and month-by-month journey through the fields, woods, and marshes of New England by Mary Holland
- One Man’s Meat by E.B. White
- Reading the Forested Landscape: a natural history of New England by Tom Wessels
- Redtails in Love by Marie Winn
- Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
- The Common Pot: the recovery of Native space in the Northeast by Lisa Brooks
- Witness Tree: seasons of change with a century-old oak by Lynda V. Mapes
- Books by the artist Andy Goldsworthy
YOUNG ADULT AND CHILDREN’S READS
- A Penguin Story by Antoinette Portis
- Backpack Explorer: On the Nature Trail (Storey Publishing
- Birchbark House (series) by Louise Erdrich
- Ladybug Girl by David Soman and Jacky Davis
- My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- On the Day You Were Born by Debra Frasier
- Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
- Rascal by Sterling North
- The Bog Baby by Jeanne Willis and Gwen Millard
- The Complete Adventures of the Mole Sisters by Rosyln Schwartz
- Tuesday and Flotsam by David Wiesner
POETRY
- Devotions by Mary Oliver
- The Essential by W. S. Merwin
- The Way It Is: New and Selected Poems by William Stafford