Welcome to Climate Change Books!
We want to help you find great books about climate change. Whether you’re looking for climate fiction, nonfiction, or poetry, you’ve come to the right place. Our reading lists and detailed book reviews will help you find the climate change book(s) you’re looking for.
Reading List Curation
We select books for our reading lists based on the following criteria: accuracy, significance, engagement, and popularity. For more information on our book inclusion criteria, please visit our About page.
Do you know of a book that should be on this list? Let us know!
Best Climate Change Books
The following “Best” reading lists are a great place to start looking at our collection. You can also use the navigation bar at the top of the page to jump right to your favorite genre, author, or reading list. Whatever book(s) you choose, thank you for visiting Climate Change Books, and thank you for reading!
All-Time Best Climate Change Books
Our All-Time Best Climate Change Books reading list features our current choices for the top ten books about climate change ever published. This includes five works of climate fiction and five works of climate nonfiction. If we ever get fifty or more climate poetry books listed in our collection, we’ll add a new section for the top five climate poetry books.
Narrowing it down to just ten titles is essentially impossible, so we update this list periodically to rotate out old titles, include new titles, and highlight any titles that are particularly relevant in the current social and political context. This list also includes a longer supplemental list of all books that have ever made it into our top ten.
Best Climate Fiction
Our Best Climate Fiction reading list features our current top ten choices for climate fiction. All of the books on this list are compelling works of fiction that offers exceptional insights into the climate crisis and climate justice.
Best Climate Nonfiction
Our Best Climate Nonfiction reading list features our current top ten choices for climate nonfiction. All of the books on this list offer an exceptional combination of information, analysis, and inspiration about the climate crisis and climate justice.
Best Climate Poetry
Our Best Climate Poetry reading list features our current top choices for climate poetry. Poetry speaks to the reader in a different way than either fiction or nonfiction. Through its use of compelling imagery and other literary devices, climate poetry often inspires a more deeply personal response to the climate crisis and climate justice.
Themed Reading Lists
There are so many great climate change books in print that a single list can’t do them justice. Check out our Reading Lists section to discover reading lists on many different themes related to climate change. The narrower focus of these lists allows us to highlight more titles — and helps you to find the titles you’re looking for.
Other People’s Reading Lists
We’re not the only people who make reading lists! If you like our climate change reading lists, you may also like the lists posted by Michael Svoboda on Yale Climate Connections.
Yale Climate Connections is a wonderful climate communications program that features articles on a wide variety of news events and topics related to the climate crisis. Michael Svoboda is the Yale Climate Connections books editor. His themed reading lists include a detailed overview of the theme along with brief descriptions of each book and how it relates to the theme.
Your Reading Suggestions
Do you know of any good climate change books or themes that haven’t made it onto any of our reading lists yet? Please contact us and let us know the title and why you feel it’s an important book to add to our list(s).
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