Tin Mountain’s Environmental Book Group meets the first Wednesday of the month at 4pm.

Upcoming Reads:

  • May: Crossings by Ben Goldfarb
  • June: Wasteland by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
  • July: Fire Weather by John Valliant

We strive to read a diversity of topics and genres with the common thread of the natural world. If you have a suggestion, please let us know! We meet monthly, and all are welcome, whether you’ve finished (or even started) the book or not!

Past Reads:

  • The Wild Trees: a Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
  • Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere With Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Mills
  • Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
  • Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard by Douglas W. Tallamy
  • The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us by Diane Ackerman
  • Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park by Conor Knighton
  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
  • Crossing Paths by Rick Van de Poll
  • A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
  • The Language of Butterflies by Wendy Williams
  • Winter Word by Bernd Heinrich
  • The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson
  • Horizon by Barry Lopez
  • Mill Town by Kerri Arsenault
  • Women of the Dawn by Bunny McBride
  • Puffin Project by Stephen Kress & Derrick Jackson
  • Suddenly the Cider Didn’t Taste so Good by John Ford
  • Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
  • A World on the Wing by Scott Weidensaul
  • No One is Too Small to Make a Difference by Greta Thunberg
  • The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
  • Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
  • Plastic Ocean by Charles Moore
  • Fuzz by Mary Roach
  • Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid by Thor Hanson
  • Swamplands by Edward Struzik
  • Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • the Seabird’s Cry by Adam Nicolson
  • Bicycling with Butterflies by Sara Dykman
  • The Hard Way by Mark Jenkins
  • The Lives of Bees by Thomas Seeley
  • Bright Green Future by Gregory Schwartz and Trevor Decker Cohen
  • Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
  • The Appalachian Trail: A Biography by Philip D’Anieri
  • When the Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce
  • How to Catch a Mole by Marc Hamer
  • Fen, Bog and Swamp by Annie Proulx
  • The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks by Donald R. Prothero
  • Conversations with Birds by Priyanka Kumar
  • Underland; A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
  • An Immense World by Ed Yong
  • Under a White Sky by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Owls of the Eastern Ice by Jonathan C. Slaght
  • Plastic a Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel
  • This Land of Snow by Anders Morley
  • Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
  • Not Too Late by Rebecca Solnit & Thelma Young Lutunatabua
  • Brave the Wild River by Melissa Sevigny
  • Falcon Thief by Joshua Hammer

If you are interested in joining us, please contact Nora Dufilho.

Tin Mountain’s Environmental Book Group is sponsored in part by White Birch Books of North Conway.