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Climate Fiction: Further reading
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Books from a wide variety of fiction genres that touch on climate themes in some way. Please bear in mind that while cli-fi can be hopeful, it also touches on a lot of difficult themes, so make sure to protect your mental health too.
NPR’s Books We Love 2025
Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.
The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.
Post-Apocalyptic Sapphics
Sapphic stories set right as or right after or after or long after the shit hit the fan.
near future
speculative and climate fiction about where we’re going
Short Books (<300)
100 short books for when you need to break a reading slump or reach a reading goal.
Ecofiction 🪴 and heartbreak 💔
Stories that envelop you in the beauty of nature, revealing how small we really are in the grand scheme of things. Plants and animals have been here before and will be here long after.
August 2025 releases
Exciting books releasing in August of 2025!
Cam’s Fiction Faves
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