The Weather Makers: How We are Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth by Tim Flannery

Probably my book of choice to recommend for those people who want to read something, but not everything, about climate change. Accessible - well-written, straightforward, intelligent.

Being Caribou by Karsten Heuer

This little jewel of a book allows you to enter a completely different world wherein the author makes you feel like you belong - or that you really really want to belong. Anyone likely to read this book will be yearning by the end to partake, even just a little bit, of the world that Heuer opens up to us. I particularly liked the change of voice when bits of what appear to be an "at-the-time" journal are inserted into the flowing narrative. Lovely.

Heat - How to Stop the Planet From Burning by George Monbiot

This oh-so-important topic of global warming has surely never before been so thoroughly researched and comprehensively investigated as you will find in this book - because what the author writes about are actual, non-political, non-bandaid real-life solutions. And sometimes, like here, the truth hurts. But the numbers and the arguments are compelling. When will we learn?