This is the list of books (and other wonderful sources of inspiration) that people attending the book discussion groups at Wytham woods have recommended.
As far as possible, links are to www.bookshop.org which supports local independent bookshops.
Added March 2023
Lanny, Max Porter
The Island of Missing Trees, Elif Shafak
Exolinguistics, Arran Stibbe
This Changes Everything, Naomi Klein
Pollution is Colonialism, Max Liboiron
The Hurting Kind, Ada Limon
Added 29th Jan 2023
Peter Ackroyd - chapter Sacred River
Lucy Jones - Losing Eden
Sue Stuart-Smith - The Well Gardened Mind
Wind in the Willows (as an adult)
Rewilding - Isabella Tree
Fledging - Hannah Bourne -Taylor (raises a finch, then a swift)
Regenesis - George Monbiot
HE Bates - Through the Woods
Thunderstone - Nancy Campbell
Archibald Lampman (Canadian poet) - January Morning
added 22nd November 2022
Climate Justice: A Man-Made Problem With a Feminist Solution a book by Mary Robinson. (bookshop.org)
Orchard: A Year in England's Eden a book by Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates. (bookshop.org)
Diane Ackerman: School Prayer - YouTube
When the Lights Go Out a book by Carys Bray. (bookshop.org)
The Oak Papers a book by James Canton. (bookshop.org)
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Future a book by Chris Goodall. (bookshop.org)
Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills a book by Neil Ansell. (bookshop.org)
added 26th June 2022
The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District a book by James Rebanks. (bookshop.org)
Potiki a book by Patricia Grace. (bookshop.org)
The Homing Instinct: The Story and Science of Migration a book by Bernd Heinrich. (bookshop.org)
The Stubborn Light of Things: A Nature Diary a book by Melissa Harrison. (bookshop.org)
The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne - Wikipedia. Gilbert White.
The Outrun a book by Amy Liptrot. (bookshop.org)
Lanny a book by Max Porter. (bookshop.org)
Underland: A Deep Time Journey a book by Robert MacFarlane. (bookshop.org)
added May 2022
A Short, Hopeful Guide to Climate Change a book by Oisin McGann. (bookshop.org)
The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us a book by Nick Hayes. (bookshop.org)
Skylarks with Rosie: A Somerset Spring a book by Stephen Moss. (bookshop.org)
The Heeding a book by Rob Cowen and Nick Hayes. (bookshop.org)
Marianne North - BOTANICAL ART & ARTISTS (botanicalartandartists.com)
The Plant Hunters by Charles Lyte | Goodreads
Sweet Thames Run Softly a book by Robert Gibbings. (bookshop.org)
Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees. Roger Deakin
The Peace of Wild Things. Poetry. Wendell Berry.
march 2022 - the first book group
Engish Pastoral: An Inheritance. James Rebanks.
Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild. Lucy Jones.
If Women Rose Rooted: A life-changing journey to authenticity and belonging. Sharon Blackie.
Big Panda Tiny Dragon. James Norbury.
Swimming with Seals. Victoria Whitworth.
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharing K. Wilkinson.
Turn the Tide on Climate Anxiety: Sustainable Action for Your Mental Health and the Planet. Megan Kennedy-Woodard and Patrick Kennedy-Williams.
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate. Peter Wohlleben.
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back. Guy Shrubsole.
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. Kate Raworth.
A Wood of One's Own. Ruth Pavey.
The Overstory. Richard Powers.
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood. John Lewis-Stempel.
The Salt Path. Raynor Winn.
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. Katherine May.
The Last Wilderness: A Journey into Silence. Neil Ansell.
Dream Island. Ronald Lockley.
The Walker's Guide to Outdoor Clues and Signs: Their Meaning and the Art of Making Predictions and Deductions. Tristan Gooley.
RSPB Handbook of British Birds. Peter Holden and Richard Gregory
The Unofficial Countryside. Richard Mabey (Author) Mary Newcomb (Illustrator).
Diary of a Young Naturalist. Dara McAnulty.
Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest. Suzanne Simard.
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Robin Wall Kimmerer