Recs if you like The Mars House...

The Climate Fiction Prize celebrates 'the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis.' This list collects all longlisted titles since the award's inaugural year, 2024, and will be updated as future longlists are released. 2025 Winner: And So I Roar by Abi Daré | 2026 Winner: pending

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

I love the Pagebound community but the one thing I don’t like about the app is how it incentives sticking to popular books more likely to have a decent amount of posts. (Granted some of this has to do with it being a little new) It’s my experience however that the hidden gems or even just less popular books are often just as if not more interesting as the best sellers.

So this is my list of books with 5 posts or less that I think deserve more love.

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.

Books with outstandingly beautiful and normal LGBTQ+ main characters after the world SEEMS like it should have ended, but didn’t. Apocalypse, catastrophic climatic event, etc, but the world just keeps on ticking. Some contain characters that aren’t EXPLICITLY queer but you know. There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.

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The Climate Fiction Prize is a new literary award that celebrates the most inspiring novels tackling the climate crisis. 2025 winner was And So I Roar by Abi Daré