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Climate Fiction: Further reading
Constantly being updated!
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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.
Survivalist Fiction
Stories centered around isolation, being stranded, societal collapse, and surviving in the wilderness.
Booker Prize Shortlist 1969-present
Every book shortlisted for the Booker Prize since it was founded in 1969, under its current title and previous names, the Man Booker Prize and the Booker Prize for Fiction. I want to hear your percentage overlap in the comments!
Cli-fi/Eco-Fiction
Fiction that deals with climate change. Books may take place in the world as we know it, in the near future, or in fictional worlds experiencing climate change.
Love in the time of Climate Change
Cli-fi about relationships, love, self-discovery, etc. But also ft. climate anxiety
Climate Literature
Fiction and Nonfiction books on climate (change)!
Dystopian
Horror in its own special way
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