Climate Fiction Book Club

Since 2018, I've been part of a climate fiction book club, originally founded by Alexandra Nikoleris as part of the Narrating Climate Futures project. 

Here's a list of the books we've read together! (Full disclosure, I missed some of these meetings, so have not personally read 100% of these books.)  

My personal favorite climate fiction books are marked in bold. 

The best book clubs are boat book clubs! September 2025.

Now reading: 
Stephen Markley: The Deluge

Past books: 
Téa Obreht: The Morningside 
Ned Beauman: Venomous Lumpsucker
T. C. Boyle: Blue Skies
Richard Flanagan: The Living Sea of Waking Dreams
Denis Johnson: Fiskadoro
Kim Stanley Robinson (ed): Future Primitive
Ian McEwan: Solar
N.K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season
Maja Lund: Drömmen om ett träd
Sarena Ulibarri (ed.): Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures
Lily Brooks Dalton: The Light Pirate
Chen Qiufan: The Waste Tide
Margaret Atwood: Dearly; Oryx and Crake
Tommy Orange: There There
Charlotte McConaghy: Once There Were Wolves
Jeff VanderMeer: Hummingbird Salamander
Imbolo Mbue: How beautiful we were
J.G. Ballard: The Drowned World
Kim Stanley Robinson: The Ministry for the Future
Sunvault: a collection of climate utopias
Johanna Drucker: Downdrift
Maja Lunde: Przewalskis hest (Prezwalski's horse)
John Lanchester: The Wall
Yoko Tawada: The Last Children of Tokyo
Anja Kampmann: High as the Waters Rise
Roland Buti: Le Milieu de l´Horizon (Year of the Drought/Torkans år)
Cixin Liu: of Ants and Dinosaurs
Jiamin Lü (Jiang Rong): Wolf Totem
Richard Powers: The Overstory
Pitchaya Sudbanthad: Bangkok Wakes to Rain
Amitav Ghosh: Gun Island
Rita Indiana: Tentacle
Omar El Akkad: American War
Risto Isomäki: Sarasvatin hiekka (The Sands of Sarasvati)
Cory Doctorow: Walkaway
Alexis Wright: The Swan Book
Kim Stanley Robinson: Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty degrees below, Sixty days and counting
Marcus Sedgwick: Floodland
Morgan C. Babst: The Floating World
Lesley Nneka Arimah: What It Means When a Man Falls From the Sky
Mats Strandberg: Slutet
Clair Vaye Watkins: Gold Fame Citrus
Maja Lunde: Blå (The end of the ocean)
Jeff VanderMeer: Southern Reach (trilogy: Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance)
Kim Stanley Robinson: New York 2140
Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behavior
Maja Lunde: Bienes Historie (The history of bees)