The nonfiction section of this list is based on the Climate Books for Black History Month reading list developed by Michael Svoboda, the Yale Climate Connections books editor. For more reading lists like this, find Michael Svoboda on Yale Climate Connections.
Climate Nonfiction
- 2023 NGO and Foundation Transparency Report Card by Chandler Purrity et al. (Green 2.0, 204 pages, free download)
- Adversity to Advancement: 15 Climate Impacts & 45 Black-Led Pathways to Climate Justice by Jacqui Patterson (The Chisholm Legacy Project 2023, 72 pages, free download)
- Blueprint for a Multiracial Cross-Class Climate Movement: The Report on Coalitions by Lynsy Smithson-Stanley and Jack Zhou (Climate Advocacy Lab 2023, 45 pages, free download with registration)
- Confronting Injustice: Racism and the Environmental Emergency by Alba Kapoor, Nannette Youssef, and Simon Hood (Greenpeace and Runnymede Trust 2022, 78 pages, free download)
- The Cost of Doing Business: The Petrochemical Industry’s Toxic Pollution in the USA by Research Staff (Amnesty International 2024, 131 pages, free download)
- “We’re Dying Here”: The Fight for Life in a Louisiana Fossil Fuel Sacrifice Zone by Research Staff (Human Rights Watch 2024, 135 pages, free download)
- Urban Climate Justice: Theory, Praxis, Resistance, edited by Jennifer L. Rice, Joshua Long and Anthony Levenda (University of Georgia Press 2023, 284 pages, $34.95 paperback)
- Toxic Water, Toxic System: Environmental Racism and Michigan’s Water War by Michael Mascarenhas (University of California Press 2024, 334 pages, $27.95 paperback)
- Climate Justice in the Majority World: Vulnerability, Resistance, and Diverse Knowledges, edited by Neil J.W. Crawford, Kavya Michael, Michael Mikulewicz (Earthscan/Routledge 2024, 300 pages, $48.95 paperback)
- Black to Nature: Pastoral Return and African American Culture by Stefanie K. Dunning (University Press of Mississippi 2021, 208 pages, $30.00 paperback)
- Unearthed: On Race and Roots and How the Soil Taught Me I Belong by Claire Ratinon (Penguin / Random House / Vintage 2023, 320 pages, $19.99 paperback)
- Wild Life: Finding My Purpose in an Untamed World by Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant (Get Lifted Books 2024, 288 pages, $28.00)
Climate Fiction
- Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
- Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler
- The World is Ours to Cherish: A Letter to a Child by Mary Annaïse Heglar
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