Earth Day Reading List 2025
Earth Day is an invitation to pay attention — to the planet, to what we owe it, and to the stories that remind us why it matters. At Hidden Shelf, we have always believed that literature is one of the best tools we have for building care. Here is our 2025 reading list.
From the Hidden Shelf Catalog
- Legend Keepers: The Promise — The first book in an award-winning children's series that places young characters in direct relationship with the natural world. An extraordinary series for young readers who are growing up to inherit this earth.
- Legend Keepers: The Partnership — The second installment deepens the world and the ecological stakes. Perfect for readers ready to continue the journey.
- Legend Keepers: The Chosen One — The award-winning third book in the series. Powerful, heartfelt, and essential reading for anyone who loves nature and the children who will protect it.
Environmental Reading Beyond Our Catalog
- Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer — A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation writes with extraordinary beauty about plants, gratitude, and what it means to live in relationship with the land. A book that changes how you see the world.
- The Overstory by Richard Powers — A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about trees, activism, and the ways humans fail and occasionally rise to meet the ecological crisis. One of the most important novels of the century so far.
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson — Published in 1962 and still essential. The book that launched the modern environmental movement is as urgent as ever.
- The Story of More by Hope Jahren — A geobiologist's clear-eyed account of how human consumption drives climate change and what we might do about it. Accessible, honest, and vital.
The earth does not need our sentiment — it needs our attention, our action, and our willingness to imagine things differently. We hope these books help with all three. Browse the full Hidden Shelf catalog for more environmental and children's titles worth discovering.
This is part of our Earth Day Reading List series. See all editions →