Bklyn BookMatch is a readers' advisory service that uses what readers like (and dislike) to create customized reading recommendations based on the interests or needs of patrons. Kimberly Behan, a children's librarian at Adams Street Library, created an Earth Month-inspired reading list for all ages. Visit bklynlibrary.org/bookmatch to request your own BookMatch, and check out BPL's upcoming environmental programs.
The Day the River Caught Fire by Barry Wittenstein: The True story of how a 1969 fire in one of America's most polluted rivers brought the environmental movement to the forefront of national discussions.
My Friend Earth by Patricia MacLachlan: Die-cut pages illustrate how our Earth is a friend to all creatures, watching over us as we cycle through the seasons.
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler: In 2025 California, an 18-year-old suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer: Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer shows how ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgement and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the world.
Braiding Sweetgrass for Young Adults by Robin Wall Kimmerer: Adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, this edition brings Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the lessons of plant life to a new generation.
Weather by Jenny Offill: A darkly funny novel about a family and a nation in crisis. A college librarian goes down a climate doom rabbit hole while working a media job.
Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton: This gripping psychological thriller from a Booker Prize-winning author unflinchingly explores the human urge for survival and the relationship between intentions, actions and consequences.
We Will Be Jaguars: A Memoir of My People by Nemonte Nenquimo: Born into the Waorani tribe of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest—one of the last to be contacted by missionaries in the 1950s—Nenquimo has emerged as one of the most forceful voices in climate change activism.
This blog post reflects the opinions of the author and does not necessarily represent the views of Brooklyn Public Library.
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