Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Books In Order

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Anthologies

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a published author. In addition to being a writer, she is a doctor, a marine biologist, and a policy advisor. A native of Brooklyn, she is known for being a co-founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a nonprofit think tank.

Dr. Johnson also served as a co-editor for All We Can Save, a bestselling climate anthology. She co-authored the Blue New Deal and co-created a podcast called How to Save a Planet. She is known for writing and editing books having to deal with the climate.

What if We Get it Right?: Visions of Climate Futures is a 2024 book by Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson. This book is a New York Times bestseller that is a great selection if you are a fan of nonfiction. Roxane Gay says that this is a ‘thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations’ that the author has put together with a dynamic group of people who are ‘willing to imagine what seems impossible’. Check out this Smithsonian best book of the year to learn more!

The climate future around us has not yet been written, but what would happen if we acted as though we love the future? Often times, the boldest thing that we can do while taking on an existential crisis is to use our imagination and picture life on the other side. This book takes us through a landscape of possible climate futures that is not depressing but inspiring.

Through essays and conversations, added onto with poetry, data, and art, the author takes the reader through all of the possibilities and the solutions at the center of policy, science, culture, and justice. Visionary financiers, farmers, architects, and advocates come together and help the reader think of a future where they are flourishing and live in a future that is worth the effort that it will take to create it from all of us with what we have to offer.

Perhaps it’s difficult for you to imagine a world that is replenished or transformed, or to see yourself or others that you care about living for it. If that’s the case, that is the exact reason why this book is for you! This book helps readers not only picture that but finds a way that they can get there.

Full of humanity, humor, grace, and intellect, the author gives readers the chance to picture the world in the future with the context of getting it right. What if it’s possible to have everything go right? This book asks that question and answers it. A great selection for book clubs or those who are interested in this topic, What if We Get it Right? is the optimistic book that we need in this times that delivers a compelling viewpoint and most importantly inspires. Check it out to absorb every detail!

All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis is a book edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson. This book contains illuminating and provocative essays written by women who are at the front of the climate movement, harnessing courage, truth and solutions that may help to move humanity forward.

When it comes to the climate movement, there is a renaissance coming. It involves leadership that is more feminine and faithfully feminist, and finds its roots in connection, compassion, creativity, and collaboration. It is clear that girls and women are important voices and agents of change for this planet but when it comes to being part of a conversation, they are all too often missing from the table. It’s more than just a bias problem and is a dynamic that ends up setting us up for failure since everyone is needed in order to change everything.

This book shines a light on the expertise and the voices and insights of many different women who are leading the charge when it comes to the climate in the United States. This includes farmers, teachers, lawyers, journalists, scientists, activists, innovators, designers, and more, from all geographies, generations, and races. The goal of the book is to advance a more representative public conversation that is solution oriented on the climate crisis. The women inside this book give the reader a variety of not only ideas but insights on how we can reshape society quickly, in a radical way, and for the better.

All We Can Save features essays that are mixed in with poems and art. It is a guide for knowing what has been done to the world while also giving inspiration and strength to the reader to not give up– on the future or each other.

All of us must summon courage and solutions so that we can turn away from the brink and move towards the possibility of a world that gives and sustains life. Curated by two different climate leaders, this is a collection of the work of visionaries who are doing their best to take us to a place where we can save the planet that we’re living on now and in the future.

Read this nonfiction work to appreciate their words and be inspired for once instead of living in the news of doom and gloom. This book reminds all of us that when it comes to saving the world, it’s not too late. An inspirational work that belongs on your bookshelf!