Influences and

Recommended Readings

My more-than-human friends are my greatest teachers. Among our human kin, I share here my most cherished words written by those whose influence I hope to contribute to and elevate.

In No Particular Order:

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1974

The Books of Earthsea

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1968-2001

Braiding Sweetgrass

Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013


Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations

Edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer, 2021

The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov, 1967

Bloodchild and Other Stories

Octavia E. Butler, 1995


The Dead Mountaineer's Inn

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, 1970

Black Skin, White Masks

Frantz Fanon, 1967

The Hanish Cycle

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1966-2002


Catwings

Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, 1988

Uncivilization, The Dark Mountain Manifesto

The Dark Mountain Project, 2009

A Sand County Almanac

Aldo Leopold, 1949


Respect for Nature

Paul W. Taylor, 1986

Watership Down

Richard Adams, 1972

Into the Wild

Jon Krakauer, 1996


Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Audre Lorde, 1984

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation

Beth E. Richie, 2012

Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril

Edited by Kathleen Dean Moore & Michael P. Nelson, 2011


The Ethics of What We Eat

Peter Singer and Jim Mason, 2006

My Side of the Mountain Trilogy

Jean Craighead George, 1959-1999

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote, 1965


The Starship and the Canoe

Kenneth Brower, 1978

The Souls of Black Folks

W.E.B. Du Bois, 1903

The Street

Ann Petry, 1946