Reading List For Writers and 19 Ways

 

Ariel Dorfman Death and the Maiden

Ariel Dorfman The Suicide Museum

*Arkan Lushwala Deer and Thunder

Barry Lopez Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

Barry Lopez Horizon

Barry Lopez Resistance

Barry Lopez Winter Count

Calvin Luther Martin The Way of the Human Being

Colum McCann Apeirogon

Colum McCann Zoli

Doris Lessing Shikasta

Derrick Jensen A Language Older Than Words

Derrick Jensen, Lierre Keith, Max Wilbert Bright Green Lies

F. David Peat and John Briggs Seven Lessons of Chaos

*F. David Peat Blackfoot Physics

Françoise Malty-Anthony An Elephant in My Kitchen: What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage and Survival 

Gay Bradshaw Carnivore Minds: Who These Fearsome Animals Really Are

*Gay Bradshaw Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity

*Gregory Cajete Native Science

Hisham Matar The Return

**Jack Forbes Columbus & Other Cannibals

**James Bridle New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future

Jenny Erpenbeck Kairos

Jenny Erpenbeck Visitation

Katy Payne Silent Thunder

Kent Nerburn Neither Wolf Nor Dog

Kent Nerburn The Wolf at Twilight

Kent Nerburn The Girl Who Sang to the Buffalo (Preferably read Nerburn in order above)

**Kim Stanley Robinson The Ministry For the Future

Lee Irwin The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains

Leslie Marmon Silko Ceremony

Leslie Marmon Silko Almanac of the Dead

Lewis Mehl-Madrona Coyote Medicine: Lessons From Native American Healing

Lewis Mehl-Madrona Narrative Medicine: The Use of History and Story in the Healing Process

*Linda Hogan People of the Whale (Deena recommends all of Hogan’s books)

Linda Hogan Power

Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, Brenda Peterson, Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals

Lousie Erdrich The Sentence (or any of her novels)

*Martin Prechtel Secrets of the Talking Jaguar

Martin Prechtel Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

Martin Prechtel The Mare and The Mouse: Stories of My Horses, Volume 1

Merlin Sheldrake Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Morris West Clowns of God

*Nora Jamieson Deranged

Ocean Vuong On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Percival Everett James

Peter Nabokov Where Lightning Strikes

Richard Katz Indigenous Healing Psychology: Honoring the Wisdom of the First Peoples

Richard Powers The Overstory

Robert Macfarlane The Old Ways

Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass

Rosita Arvigo Sastun

Rupa Marya & Raj Patel Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice 

*Rupert Ross Indigenous Healing: Exploring Traditional Paths

Rupert Ross Returning to the Teachings: Exploring Aboriginal Justice

Solvej Balle On The Calculation Of Volume

*Stan Rushworth Going to Water

Stan Rushworth Sam Woods: American Healing

Stan Rushworth and Dahr Jamail We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth

Stephen Harrod Buhner Plant Intelligence & the Imaginable Realm: Into the Dreaming of Earth

Stephen Jenkinson Die Wise

**Stephen Karcher Total I Ching: Myths for Change

Suzanne Simard Finding The Mother Tree

Valeria Luiselli Lost Children Archive

Vine Deloria Jr. God Is Red

Virginia Woolf  To The Lighthouse

William Powers Twelve by Twelve: A One-Room Cabin Off the Grid and Beyond the American Dream

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PODCAST: Larry Merculieff, Aleut Elder  (Click this link or paste into browser:) https://soundcloud.com/michaelstoneconversations/larry-merculieff-wisdom-of-the-elders

Lewis Mehl-Madrona on healthcare – Kodiak, Alaska 2019   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0S0cyw3cBok

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The Burden of Light, poetry

A Rain of Night Birds, a novel

Entering the Ghost River: Meditations on the Theory and Practice of Healing

From Grief into Vision: A Council

Feral, a novel

La Negra y Blanca, a novel

La Vieja: A Journal of Fire, a novel

Tree: Essays and Pieces

The Other Hand, a novel

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