Reading the Work

The following texts inform my ongoing exploration of relationships among humans, materials, and the more-than-human world. These books are not references so much as companions — shaping how I understand time, perception, repair, and responsibility within living systems.

Drawn from fields including ecological humanities, Indigenous knowledge systems, anthropology, biology, philosophy, and speculative fiction, this evolving library supports a practice grounded in attention, reciprocity, and entanglement.

Latest Inspiration

Art & Essays

• Orwell’s Roses, Rebecca Solnit

• Climate Change and the New Polar Aesthetics: Artists Reimagine the Arctic and Antarctic, Lisa E. Bloom

• Island Zombie: Iceland Writings, Roni Horn

• Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (5 Volume Set), Edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer. Published by the Center for Humans and Nature.

• The Language of Trees, Katie Holten

• Old Growth: The Best Writing about Trees from Orion Magazine

Climate Disruption

• The Great Displacement, Jake Bittle

• What if We Get it Right?, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Food and Farming

• Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming, Liz Carlisle

• Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science, Jessica Hernanadez, PHd.

Indigenous Knowledge

• Being Salmon, Being Human: Encountering the Wild in Us and Us in the Wild, Martin Lee Mueller

• Right Story, Wrong Story, Tyson Yunkaporta

• Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, Tyson Yankporta

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants, Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Designs for The Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, Arturo Escobar

• Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, Nick Estes

History

• Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape, Cal Flyn

• The Ghost Forest: Racists, Radicals, and Real Estate in the California Redwoods, Greg King

Interconnected Science

• Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming, Liz Carlisle

• The Master and His Emissary, Iain McGilchrist

• What the Robin Knows, Jon Young

• The Light Eaters, Zoe Schlanger

• Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning, Karen Barad

• Matter and Desire: An Erotic Ecology, Andreas Weber

• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds and Shape our Futures, Merlin Sheldrake

• Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest, Suzane Simard

• To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision, Diana Beresford-Kroeger

• Thus Spoke the Plant, Monica Gagliano, PHD

Philosophy, Anthropology, and Cultural Theory

• Ways of Being - Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence, James Bridle

• Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence, Timothy Morton

• Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Timothy Morton

• Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, David Abrams

• The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, David, Abrams

• Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, Lisa Wells

• How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human, Eduardo Kohn

• The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History Of Humanity’s Search for Meaning, Jermy Lent

• The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe, Jeremy Lent

• Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming, Kimerer LaMothe

• Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, Donna Haraway

• Correspondences, Tim Ingold

• The Nutmeg’s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis, Amitav Ghosh

Fiction

• North Woods, Daniel Mason

• The Last Animal, Ramona Ausubel

• Stolen, Ann-Helen Lastadius

• Parable of the Sower, Octavia E. Butler

• The Overstory, Richard Powers

• Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer

• The Ministry for the Future, Kim Stanley Robinson

• When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut

• The Every, Dave Eggers

• The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak

Poetry

• Journeywork, David Bailey

Practices

• Smaller Arcs of Larger Circles, Nora Bateson on Warm Data

• The Heart of Tracking: Inner and Outer Practices of Nature Awareness, Richard Vacha