Do you like reading fiction about climate change?
A growing number of readers are looking for good books about climate change. including but not limited to climate nonfiction. And a growing number of authors are publishing some of the most insightful, informative, and compelling books about climate change that have been published to date. There are also some climate-themed books hitting the shelves that aren’t quite as good in their analysis or presentation, or may not be quite right for you personally in spite of the value they hold for other readers. This being the case, how can you decide what climate change book to read next?
One of the best ways to make this decision is by reading reviews! Not just any old reviews, but book reviews that are written with an emphasis on examining the climate themes present in the book. Because a book that may not resonate with a general interest reviewer may have something vital to say about the climate crisis, and a book that some reviewers love for its literary merits may have next to nothing to say about the climate crisis. Reading a review that examines the climate themes of the book can help you decide whether or not you’d like to add it to your reading list.
The following is a list of climate nonfiction books with reviews posted here on Climate Change Books. We also have several reading lists that are based on the work of dedicated climate book reviewers who have written many reviews from a climate perspective.
Book Inclusion Criteria
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Climate Nonfiction Book Reviews
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Book Review: All We Can Save
The climate crisis is a classic example of a “wicked problem.” The causes of the climate crisis are complex, intractable, and interconnected with other systemic problems. Our individual and collective responses to the climate crisis should be similarly complex. They should take a systems thinking approach, identifying the many elements of our social systems that are contributing to the problem and how they all relate to one another.. That’s why I’m such a big fan of All We Can Save, a climate nonfiction collection edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist and policy expert, and Katharine K. Wilkinson, a…
