With the theme of Summer Reading this year being Tails and Tales, we’ve prepared some fun booklists for you with a variety of nature themes. For this first one, we’re looking at books that involve birds or have birds on the cover. Each book on this list has been suggested – and loved! – by a librarian on staff. The title links to the catalog for an easy request for any book in which you’re interested.
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Boy Snow Bird by Helen Oyeyemi
The Chicken Chronicles by Alice Walker
Featherhood: A Memoir of Two Fathers and a Magpie by Charlie Gilmour
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
H is for Hawk by Helen McDonald
The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory by Kenny Fries
The Homing Instinct: Meaning and Mystery in Animal Migration by Bernd Heinrich
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
Migrations by Charlotte McConaghy
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathan C. Slaught
Red Bird by Mary Oliver
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts by J. Drew Lanham
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
