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Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than 25 books, including Orwell’s Roses, Hope in the Dark, Men Explain Things to Me, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. A longtime climate and human rights activist, she serves on the boards of Oil Change International and Third Act. Photo credit: Trent Davis Bailey (Source: Author's personal site.)

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Cover of The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

2026

Cover of No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain

2025

Cover of Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility

2023

Cover of Orwell's Roses

Orwell's Roses

2021

Cover of Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir

2020

Cover of Cinderella Liberator

Cinderella Liberator

2019

Cover of Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters

2019

Cover of Call Them by Their True Names

Call Them by Their True Names

2018

Cover of Nasty Women

Nasty Women

2017

Cover of Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

Tales of Two Americas: Stories of Inequality in a Divided Nation

2017

Cover of The Mother of All Questions

The Mother of All Questions

2017

Cover of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas

2016

Cover of The Best American Essays 2015

The Best American Essays 2015

2015

Cover of The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness

2014

Cover of Granta 127: Japan

Granta 127: Japan

2014

with Adam Johnson, Toh EnJoe and Ruth Ozeki

Cover of Men Explain Things to Me

Men Explain Things to Me

2014

Cover of The Faraway Nearby

The Faraway Nearby

2013

Cover of Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America

Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America

2011

Cover of Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas

2010

Cover of A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

2009

Cover of True North

True North

2008

with Jennifer Blessing

Cover of Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

2007

Cover of A Field Guide to Getting Lost

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

2005

Cover of River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West

2004

Cover of Hope In The Dark

Hope In The Dark

2004

Cover of Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

Hollow City: The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism

2001

Cover of Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Wanderlust: A History of Walking

2000

Cover of A Book of Migrations

A Book of Migrations

1998

Cover of Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West

Savage Dreams: A Journey into the Landscape Wars of the American West

1994

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Cover of The Best American Essays 2019

The Best American Essays 2019

2019