Here is a list of Gaia-related books recommended by the Awakening Women team.
Note: When possible buy or loan from local book stores and libraries.
Braiding Sweetgrass ~ Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
This Changes Everything ~ Naomi Klein
Capitalism vs. The Climate
Women Who Run with the Wolves ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
World as Lover, World as Self ~ Joanna Macy
Courage for Global Justice and Ecological Renewal
Wild Path to the Sacred Heart ~ Ellen Dee Davidson (a yogini sister)
A nine year journey hiking and meditating with the ancient redwood forest
Active Hope ~ Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone
How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy
Long Life, Honey in the Heart ~ Martin Prechtel (Memoir)
The journey of initiation to bring the Goddess back to life in a Mayan Village
The Secrets of the Talking Jaguar ~ Martin Prechtel (Memoir)
Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village
Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology ~ David Abram
Explore, from within, the elemental kinship between the human body and the breathing Earth
Bone ~ Marion Woodman (Memoir)
Dying Into Life: A Journal of Wisdom, Strength and Healing
Finding Beauty in a Broken World ~ Terry Tempest Williams (Memoir)
Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision
The Legacy of Luna ~ Julia Butterfly Hill (Memoir)
The Story of a Tree, a Woman and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods
Wild ~ Cheryl Strayed (Memoir)
From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
The Hope ~ Andrew Harvey
A Guide to Sacred Activism
Voices of the First Day ~ Robert Lawlor
Awakening in the Aboriginal Dreamtime
The Seven Daughters of Eve ~ Bryan Sykes
The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry
The Nature Fix ~ Florence Williams
Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier and More Creative
If Women Rose Rooted ~ Sharon Blackie
A Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
The Hidden Life of Trees ~ Peter Wohlleben
What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from a Secret World
The Cosmic Serpent ~ Jeremy Narby
DNA and the Origins of Knowledge
The Mystery of the Oracle ~ Philipp Vandenberg
World-Famous Archeologists Reveal the Best Kept Secrets of Antiquity
The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic ~ Martín Prechtel
The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping Seeds Alive
Gaia’s Garden ~ Toby Hemenway
A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture
Tending The Wild ~ M. Kat Anderson
Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources