In April, we will be meeting in person at the Mount Pleasant Library, 350 Bedford Road in Pleasantville, New York. [Google map link]
Use the form below to RSVP and once you are added to the Book Club list, we’ll email you details about this and future Book Club gatherings.
Nature Book Club
Come gather with our Nature Book Club as we discuss books of interest in the world of science and natural history.
Our Book Club typically meets on Tuesday nights at 7:00 pm, once every two months or so. You are invited!
We may meet by Zoom or in person. Register to be updated on plans for the upcoming Book Club.
Use the form below to RSVP and you will receive the Zoom link, if we are meeting by Zoom, and reminders of our upcoming meetings in any case. You’ll also be added to our private Book Club list for notices of future Book Clubs.
past book club selections
The Sea Trilogy by Rachel Carlson
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina
Leave it as it Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness by David Gessner
Artic Dreams by Barry Lopez
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman
The Shepherd’s Life by James Rebanks
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition by Caroline Alexander
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg
Birds of the Shore: Observing the Natural Life of the Atlantic Coast by Jennifer Ackerman
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds by Scott Weidensaul
The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
The Invention of Nature: Alexander Humboldt’s New World by Andrea Wulf
Evolution of Beauty by Richard O. Prum
Birding Without Borders by Noah Strycker
What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin
Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
Essays by John Muir
Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey
American Eden by Victoria Johnson
Ice: the Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance by Mariana Gosnell
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk W. Johnson
A View from Lazy Point by Carl Safina
Underland, A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
The Moth Snowstorm, Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy
Becoming Wild Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace by Carl Safina
Seeing Trees: Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees by Nancy R. Hugo, Photography by Robert Llewellyn