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Reference books

  • Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Landscapes Thomas Rainer & Claudia West
  • The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees Joseph S. Wilson & Olivia Messinger Carril
  • Botany for Gardeners Brian Capon
  • Wild NYC Ryan Mandelbaum

Non-fiction

  • Concrete Botany: the ecology of plants in the age of human disturbance Joey Santore
Bringing Nature HomeHome: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants Douglas Tallamy Sand County Almanac Aldo Leopold Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer The Serviceberry Robin Wall Kimmerer Free the Land Audrea Lim As Long as Grass Grows Dina Gilio-Whitaker The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities Peter S. Alagona The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jane Jacobs Power at the Roots: Gentrification, Community Gardens, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side Miranda J. Martinez The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Gotham Unbound: the Ecological History of Greater New York, Ted Steinberg Learning Environment: Inspirational Actions, Approaches, and Stories from the Science Classroom Jared Fox Tactical Urbanism: Short-term Action for Long-term Change, Anthony Garcia and Mike Lydon Mannahatta: a Natural History of New York City Eric W. Sanderson Earthbound Farmer’s Almanac, Lobelia Commons

Fiction

  • The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler
  • The Lorax Dr. Seuss
  • The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle

Poetry

  • Devotions Mary Oliver

Artist's books

  • Inventory of Parasite Actions and Soft Diversions Marianne Villiere