Compost after Reading is a lighthearted but competent tutorial on soil improvement and composting by Cassandrea Marketos. Released 17th March 2026 by Hachette on their Timber Press imprint, it's 208 pages and is available in paperback, audio, and ebook formats.
Well written and engaging, the author encourages absolutely everyone (yes, even non-gardeners) to engage meaningfully with the waste we all produce and have a more conscious relationship with what we do with the stuff we throw away.
The book is whimsically illustrated throughout by Sludge Thunder (!! <3) in graytone sketches. There's an appealingly trippy hippy vibe, but a lot of useful philosophical information between the covers. "Manifesto" is an apt descriptor, used on the cover, and the writing reminded me a lot of the earnest political productions from the 60s-70s. There was a sweetly nostalgic Abbie Hoffman spirit with a little whiff of Hunter S. Thompson.
Four and a half stars. We're drowning in our own waste. This would be a good choice for public or secondary school library acquisition, home library, gardening groups, etc.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
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