Black History Month Book Recommendations

Happy Black History Month! If you're looking for some new authors to add to your book collection of inspirational nature writings, search no more; we've started a list of authors you can read and add some significant new perspectives about how Black authors see the natural world.

• Camille T. Dungy: Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry

• Carolyn Finley: Black Faces, White Spaces: African Americans and the Great Outdoors

• Cecil Griscombe: Prairie Style

• Al Young: Something About the Blues

• Harryette Mullen: Urban Tumbleweed

• John C. Robinson: Birding for Everyone: Encouraging People of Color to Become Birdwatchers

• Dianne D. Glave: To Love the Wind and the Rain: African-Americans and Environmental History

• Norris McDonald: Diary of an Environmentalist

• Mary Williams: The Lost Daughter, A Memoir

• Eddy L. Harris: Mississippi Solo, A River Quest

• Lauret Savoy: Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

• John Francis: Planet Walker

• J. Drew Latham: The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

• Dorceta Taylor: The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

• James Edwards Mills: The Adventure Gap: Changing the Force of the Outdoors

• Dianne D. Glave: Rooted in the Earth: Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage

• Dorceta Taylor: Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility

• Octavia Butler: The Parable series

• N. K. Jemison: the Broken Earth trilogy

And, of course, The Black Girls Guide To Surviving A Weekend Unplugged by Camping Noire Founder Tasheea Nicholson. 

Have you read of these?  Do you have more book recommendations for the community?  We'd love to hear your feedback in the comments!