Recs if you like The Deluge...

i don’t need to explain to anyone why the proliferation climate fiction has skyrocketed over the past few years. this new wave of climate fiction, from 2020-present (ongoing), refuses to exclude climate catastrophe from depictions of or changing world. these works are grounded in present and future realities, the speculative less ‘speculative’, and more predictive.

dystopian: relating to or denoting an imagined state or society where there is great suffering or injustice.

Based on the HRCYED 3.0 prompt! Books with weather or natural disasters/phenomena on the cover (at least one version), including: rain, storms, lightning, clouds, snowfall, fog, sunshine, tornados, earthquakes, wildfires, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis.

Not an exhaustive list - feel free to suggest titles! I tried to keep it more focused on books that fit the prompt but would be harder to find (i.e. ones that don't have the key words in the title).

Dystopian future fiction and nonfiction books exploring where we are heading and why.

This list might save you at the end…

"Another storm brewing; I hear it sing i’ th’ wind. Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls." – The Tempest, 2.2.18. This list is inspired by the terrifyingly beautiful intensity of nature at its most extreme. This is the fiction edition of this subject. Recommendations always welcome!

Fiction and Nonfiction books on climate (change)!