St. Martin's Griffin

Abbey's collection of aphorisms, epigrams, and provocations — distilled from his journals. Some are brilliant. Some are deliberately outrageous. All of them sound like Abbey talking after his third beer, which is exactly the point.

Anatoli Boukreev's climbing diaries, published after his death in an avalanche on Annapurna in 1997. Boukreev was the strongest high-altitude climber of his generation and the most controversial figure in the 1996 Everest disaster. The diaries reveal a man more complex than Krakauer's portrait allowed.

Bill McKibben argues that we no longer live on Earth — we live on a different planet, one he spells Eaarth, where the climate has already changed enough to make the old assumptions obsolete. Not a book about preventing disaster. A book about living in one.

Bill McKibben's memoir of a year spent fighting the Keystone XL pipeline and learning to keep bees in Vermont. The activist and the beekeeper as parallel lives — one loud, one quiet, both essential.