Reading list
Abram, David. The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World. Vintage, 1997.
Betancourt, Orlando. 鈥淲eird Nature: Abstraction, Labor, and Capitalism in Latin American Speculative Fiction.鈥� Mediations 36.1 (Spring 2014): 100-121. www.mediationsjournal.org/articles/ weird-nature.
Bishop, Katherine E., David Higgins and Jerry M盲盲tt盲, eds. Plants in Science Fiction: Speculative Vegetation. University of Wales Press, 2020.
Bonneuil, Christophe and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History and Us. London: Verso, 2016.
Bridle, James. Ways of Being. Penguin, 2022.
Bubandt, Nils et al., eds. Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene: Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds. University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Canavan, Gerry and Kim Stanley Robinson, eds. Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction. Wesleyan University Press, 2014.
Duncan, Rebecca. 鈥淎nthropocene Gothic, Capitalocene Gothic: The Politics of Ecohorror.鈥� The Edinburgh Companion to Global Gothic. Ed. Rebecca Duncan. Edinburgh University Press, 2025.
Dungy, Camille T., ed. Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature. University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Edwards, Justin D. Dark Scenes from Damaged Earth: The Gothic Anthropocene. University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
Fremeaux, Isabelle and Jay Jordan. We Are 鈥楴ature鈥� Defending Itself: Entangling Art, Activism and Autonomous Zones. Pluto, 2021.
Gibbs, Lois Marie. Love Canal: My Story. SUNY Press, 1982.
Kohn, Eduardo. How Forests Think: Toward an Anthropology Beyond the Human. University of California Press, 2013.
Mancuso, Stefano and Alessandra Viola. Brilliant Green: The Surprising History and Science of Plant Intelligence. Trans. Joan Benham. Foreword by Michael Pollan. Island Press, 2015.
Matheson, Cameron Lister. Post-Weird: Fragmentation, Community, and the Decline of the Mainstream. Rutgers, 2025.
Millette, Holly-Gale and Ruth Heholt, eds. The New Urban Gothic: Global Gothic in the Age of the Anthropocene. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
Moore, Jason W. 鈥淭he Capitalocene, Part I: On the Nature and Origins of Our Ecological Crisis.鈥� /Essays.html. June 2014.
Mortimer-Sandilands, Catriona and Bruce Erickson, eds. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire. University of Indiana Press, 2010.
Nealon, Jeffrey T. Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life. Stanford University Press, 2015.
Price, Jenny. Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. Basic Books, 2000.
Sheldrake, Merlin. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures. Vintage, 2021.
Smith, Andrew and William Hughes, eds. Ecogothic. Manchester University Press, 2013.
Tabas, Brad. 鈥淒ark Places : Ecology, Place, and the Metaphysics of Horror Fiction,鈥� Miranda 11 (2015).
Tidwell, Christy and Carter Soles, eds. Fear and Nature: Ecohorror Studies in the Anthropocene. Penn State UP, 2021.
Yong, Ed. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. Bodley Head, 2022.
Joshi, S. T. The Modern Weird Tale. McFarland, 2001.
Vandermeer, Jeff. 鈥�Annihilation: 鈥榃eird鈥� Nature.鈥� Weird Fiction Review (4 February 2014).
Verg猫s, Fran莽oise. 鈥淩acial Capitalocene.鈥� Futures of Black Radicalism. Ed. Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin. Verso, 2017.
Von Uexkull, Jakob. A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With A Theory of Meaning. University of Minnesota Press, 2010.