…a few of my favorites

• A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage

• A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

• Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America, Nancy Turner

• Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture, Patrick E. McGovern

• Botany at the Bar: The Art and Science of Making Bitters, Selena Ahmed, Ashley Duval, & Rachel Meyer

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

• Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World. Audible Audiobook – Original recording, Michael Pollan 

• Cumin, Camels, and Caravans: A Spice Odyssey, Gary Paul Nabhan

• Eating on the Wild Side: The Pharmacologic, Ecologic, and Social Implications of Using Noncultigens, Nina Etkin

• Edible Medicines: An Ethnopharmacology of Food, Nina Etkin

• Ethnobotany in New Europe: People, Health and Wild Plant Resources, Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana, Andrea Pieroni, & Rajindra K. Puri (Editors)

• Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation, Gary Paul Nabhan

• Food, Genes, and Culture: Eating Right for Your Origins, Gary Paul Nabhan 

• Foods of Association: Biocultural Perspectives on Food and Beverages that Mediate Sociability, Nina Etkin

• Foreign Devils on the Silk Road, Peter Hopkirk 

• Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses, Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Hungry Planet: Stories of Plant Diseases, Gail L. Schumann & Cleora J. D Arcy

• Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation, United Plant Savers

• Keeping It Living: Traditions of Plant Use and Cultivation on the Northwest Coast of North America, Douglas E. Deur & Nancy J. Turner (Editors)

• Landmarks, Robert Macfarlane

• Lines: A Brief History, Tim Ingold

• Maps of the Imagination: The Writer as Cartographer, Peter Turchi

• Mouthfeel: How Texture Makes Taste, Ole Mouritsen & Klavs Styrbæk, Mariela Johansen (Translator)

• Neurogastronomy: How the Brain Creates Flavor and Why It Matters, Gordon Shepherd

• Plants in Indigenous Medicine & Diet: Biobehavioral Approaches, Nina Etkin 

• Plants, Health and Healing: On the Interface of Ethnobotany and Medical Anthropology, Elisabeth Hsu & Stephen Harris (Editors)

• Renewing America’s Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods, Gary Paul Nabhan 

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari

• Species At-Risk Assessment Tool, United Plant Savers

• Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History, Sidney W. Mintz

• The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change, Gleb Raygorodetsky

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World, Michael Pollan

• The Cabaret of Plants: Forty Thousand Years of Plant Life and the Human Imagination, Richard Mabey

• The Food Explorer: The True Adventures of the Globe-Trotting Botanist Who Transformed What America Eats, Daniel Stone

• The Forest Farmers Handbook: A Beginners Guide to Growing and Marketing At-Risk Forest Herbs, Rural Action & United Plant Savers

• The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World, Peter Wohlleben, Jane Billinghurst (Translator)

• The Lost Language of Plants: The Ecological Importance of Plant Medicine to Life on Earth, Stephen Harrod Buhner

• The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative, Florence Williams

• The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot, Robert Macfarlane 

• The Origins of Human Diet & Medicine, Timothy Johns 

• The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, Tim Ingold

• The Reason for Flowers: Their History, Culture, Biology, and How They Change Our Lives, Stephen L. Buchmann

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Elizabeth Kolbert

• The Triumph of Seeds: How Grains, Nuts, Kernels, Pulses, and Pips Conquered the Plant Kingdom and Shaped Human History, Thor Hanson

• The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World, Wade Davis

• The Weather Detective: Rediscovering Nature's Secret Signs, Peter Wohlleben, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)

• The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands, Huw Lewis-Jones (Editor)

• Theological Foundations for Environmental Ethics: Reconstructing Patristic and Medieval Concepts, Jame Schaefer

• Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages, Patrick E. McGovern

• Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine, Gary Paul Nabhan