Where can I find free climate change books?
Climate change books offer a thought-provoking and compelling way to do a deeper dive into the climate crisis. Authors from around the world have written and published thousands of works of climate fiction, climate nonfiction, and climate poetry. Many of these have something important and unique to say about the climate crisis.
But what if you can’t afford to buy all of those climate change books? Is there any place online where you can read climate change books, short stories, and poetry for free?
Yes! This reading list is a collection of every free climate change book we’ve found so far that meets our book inclusion criteria. You can enjoy many hours of climate change reading simply by going through the titles on this list. Be sure to bookmark this page so that you can read all of the stories and check back for new titles as we find them.
We would also like to point out that you probably have a local library in your area that lets you read many books for free. It’s not in our financial interest to tell you that since most of the funding we need to maintain this site comes from affiliate links! However, we want to be sure that you find the climate change books you’re looking for, regardless of where or how you read them.
If you want to get books for free while also supporting climate authors, please consider using library-based ebook services like Hoopla, BorrowBox, and others available through your local library. These sites/apps use a business model that gives authors a small payment each time the book is borrowed. Thanks to the wonderful work of your local library, you can read the book on your device for free while the author receives the funding they need to keep writing and publishing!
Book Inclusion Criteria
We selected books and stories for this list 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 or story that should be on this list? Let us know! We’re mostly interested in “permafree” books and stories, but if you tell us about a limited-time giveaway well in advance, we may be able to include it here.
Free Climate Change Books
Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction edited by Manjana Milkoreit, Meredith Martinez, and Joey Eschrich with foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson
Description:
Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction features twelve stories from the ASU Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative‘s 2016 Climate Fiction Short Story Contest along with a foreword by science fiction legend and contest judge Kim Stanley Robinson and an interview with renowned climate fiction author Paolo Bacigalupi.
Everything Change is free to download, read, and share.
If you like Everything Change, you may also be interested in the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination.
The title Everything Change is drawn from a quote by Margaret Atwood, ASU’s first Imagination and Climate Futures lecturer in 2014.
Everything Change, Volume II edited by Angie Dell and Joey Eschrich with foreword by Kim Stanley Robinson
Description:
Everything Change, Volume II features ten stories from the ASU Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative‘s 2018 Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest, along with a foreword by the contest’s lead judge, renowned science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson.
Everything Change Volume II is free to download, read, and share.
If you like Everything Change Volume II, you may also be interested in the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination.
The title Everything Change is drawn from a quote by Margaret Atwood, ASU’s first Imagination and Climate Futures lecturer in 2014.
Everything Change, Volume III edited by Angie Dell and Joey Eschrich
Description:
A collection of short stories by writers from around the world, exploring the climate crisis and how human responses to it will shape the futures we will inhabit. Everything Change, Volume III features stories in styles ranging from science fiction and fabulism to literary fiction, weird fiction, and action-thriller, all drawn from the 2020 Everything Change Climate Fiction Contest.
Everything Change, Volume III is free to download, read, and share.
If you like Everything Change, Volume III, you may also be interested in the ASU Center for Science and the Imagination.
The title Everything Change is drawn from a quote by Margaret Atwood, ASU’s first Imagination and Climate Futures lecturer in 2014.
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