James Canton’s Five Book Recommendations

A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold (1949)

An incredibly powerful narrative of seeing landscape from beyond human eyes.

The Overstory, Richard Powers (2019)

A brilliant, fictional narrative of humans and trees.

The Drowned World, J. G. Ballard (1962)

A nightmarish world that prefigures notions of climate change and global warming.

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)

A wonderful reflection on traditional ecological thinking and indigenous ways of being. 

The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino (1957)

A delightful tale of a young man who climbs a tree and never comes down.