Friends for the Abbott Marshlands is happy to support a Nature Book Club. Join us for a series of informal discussions about some wonderful writing about the natural world.
Except for the holidays, we usually gather on the fourth Thursday of the month at 7PM. Specific dates are indicated below.
Meetings are currently held online via Zoom and links are sent to all members of our bookclub email list prior to each session. If you would like to be added to the our book club list, just send an email to [email protected].
Book Club Selections for 2022
- Jan 27: New Jersey’s Lost Piney Culture by William J Lewis
- Feb 24: Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman
- March 31: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
- April 28: Fuzz by Mary Roach
- May 26: The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane, Jackie Morris (Illustrator)
- Jun 30: The Colors of Nature: CULTURE, IDENTITY AND THE NATURAL WORLD by Allison Hawthorne Deming and Lauret Savoy
- July 28: The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepard
- Aug 25: The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace Wells
- Sept 29: The Real James Bond: A True Story of Identity Theft, Avian Intrigue, and Ian Fleming by Jim Wright
- Oct 27: An Orchard Invisible: A Natural History of Seeds by Jonathan Silvertown
- Dec 15: Migrations: A Novel by Charlotte McConaghy
Book Club Selections for 2021
- January 28th: Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb
- February 25th: Planetwalker: 22 Years of Walking. 17 Years of Silence by John Francis
- March 25th: Recent Rambles or in Touch With Nature by Charles Conrad Abbott
- April 29th: The Forest Lover by Susan Vreeland
- May 27th: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Kimmerer
- June 24th: The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery
- July 29th: Our National Parks by John Muir
- Aug 26: Upstream by Mary Oliver
- Sept:30 Tales from the Ant World by EO Wilson
- Oct: 28: The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
- Dec 9: Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
Book Club Selections for 2020
- May 28th: Natures Best Hope by Doug Tallamy
- June 25th: Gathering Moss by Robin Kimmerer