Book List
Here’s a list of books that have been important to us over the past few years, for one reason or another. If one of your favorite books isn’t on this list, it’s probably because we haven’t read it! While our reading time is quite limited right now, we’re always happy to hear suggestions. Drop us a quick note at info@whatawaytogomovie.com and let us know if you’ve got a must-read book that we’ve missed.
David Abram
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
Last Chance to See
Carolyn Baker
Coming Out of Fundamentalist Christianity: An Autobiography Affirming Sensuality, Social Justice, and The Sacred
Reclaiming the Dark Feminine: The Price of Desire
US History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn’t Tell You
Itzhak Bentov
Stalking the Wild Pendulum:Â On the Mechanics of Consciousness
Thomas Berry
The Dream of the Earth
The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
William R. Catton, Jr.
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
Pema Chodron
When Things Fall Apart:Â Heart Advice for Difficult Times
The Places That Scare You:Â A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Julian Darley
High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis
Kenneth Deffeyes
Hubbert’s Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
Beyond Oil: The View From Hubbert’s Peak
Richard Douthwaite
The Growth Illusion: How Economic Growth has Enriched the Few,
Impoverished the Many and Endangered the Planet
Short Circuit
David Edwards
Burning All Illusions
Charles Eisenstein
The Ascent of Humanity:Â Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Duane Elgin
Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity’s Future
Lyle Estill
Biodiesel Power
Robert Fritz
The Path of Least Resistance: Learning to Become the Creative Force in Your Own Life
Laurie Garrett
The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance
John Taylor Gatto
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
Chellis Glendinning
Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy
When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress
My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization
Stan Goff
Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century
David Ray Griffin
The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions About the Bush Administration and 9/11
Joan Halifax
The Fruitful Darkness: Reconnecting With the Body of the Earth
Thom Hartmann
The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal and Global Transformation
Richard Heinberg
The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism and Economic Collapse
The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
PowerDown: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World
James Hillman and Michael Ventura
We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse
Derrick Jensen
A Language Older Than Words
The Culture of Make Believe
Strangely Like War: The Global Assault on Forests
Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Endgame: Volume 1: The Problem of Civilization
Endgame: Volume 2: Resistance
Robert D. Kaplan
The Coming Anarchy: Shattering the Dreams of the Post Cold War
Penny Kelly
Robes: A Book of Coming Changes
David Korten
The Great Turning
William Kotke
Final Empire: The Collapse of Civilization and the Seed of the Future
James Howard Kunstler
The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and
Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
Paul Levy
The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis
Grace Llewellyn
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
James Lovelock
The Revenge of Gaia
Mark Lynas
High Tide: The Truth About Our Climate Crisis
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Joanna Macy
World As Lover, World As Self
Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age
Jerry Mander
In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations
Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
Richard Manning
Against the Grain: How Agriculture has Hijacked Civilization
Deena Metzger
From Grief into Vision: A Council
Stuart Pimm
The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth
Daniel Pinchbeck
2012:Â The Return of Quetzalcoatl
Martin Prechtel
Secrets of the Talking Jaguar:Â Memoirs from the Living Heart of a Mayan Village
Daniel Quinn
Ishmael
The Story of B
My Ishmael
Beyond Civilization: Humanity’s Next Great Adventure
Paul Roberts
The End of Oil: One the Edge of a Perilous New World
Barbara Rossing
The Rapture Exposed:Â The Message of Hope in the Book of Revelation
Michael Ruppert
Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
Matt Savinar
The Oil Age is Over: What to Expect as the World Runs Out of Cheap Oil, 2005-2050
Jonathan Schell
The Fate of the Earth
Andrew Bard Schmookler
The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution
Malidoma Some
Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
Alan Weisman
The World Without Us
Alexis Zeigler
Civil Liberty, Peak Oil, and the End of Empire