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The Best Climate & Environmental Fiction Books

“What are the best Climate & Environmental Fiction Books?” We looked at 17 lists and 118 different books to answer that very question. Of the 118 total books 33 appeared multiple times.

What can be found in a Best Climate and Environment Fiction Books Listicle:

The phrase “Cli-Fi”
Trilogies by Kim Stanley Robinson
Paolo Bacigalupi
Green and Blue imagery
Apocalypse’s
Reminders of scientific facts that should be common sense but somehow still aren’t

The Top 33 Climate and Environmental Fiction Books

33) Back to the Garden by Clara Hume

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32) Breathe by Sarah Crossan

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31) Dune by Frank Herbert

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30) Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach

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29) Exodus by Julia Bertagna

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28) Fallen Angels by Larry Niven

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27) From Here by Daniel Kramb

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26) I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet edited by Mark Martin

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25) Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block

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24) Nature’s Confession by JL Morin

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23) River of Gods by Ian McDonald

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22) Snowpiercer by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette

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21) State of Fear by Michael Crichton

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20) The Color of Distance by Amy Thomson

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19) The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

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18) Watermind by M. M. Buckner

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17) Drowned Cities By Paolo Bacigalupi

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16) Drowning Towers By George Turner

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15) 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

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14) A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle

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13) Arctic Rising by Tobias Buckell

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12) The Healer: A Novel by Antti Tuomainen

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11) The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi

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10) Far North by Marcel Theroux

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9) The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard

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8) The Sea and Summer by George Turner

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7) Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver

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6) Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi

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5) The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

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4) Solar by Ian McEwan

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3) Science in the Capital Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

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2) Odds Against Tomorrow by Nathaniel Rich

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1) Maddaddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood

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The Additional 85 Titles Appearing on a Single List

A Being Darkly Wise by John Atcheson
A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Norman Maclean
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Alien Species Intervention
Antarctica
Arctic Drift by Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler
Back to the Garden by Clara Hume
Blood Red Road by Moira Young
Blue Remembered Earth
Boneshaker, by Cherie Priest
Carbon Dreams by Susan M. Gaines
Climate Changed: A Personal Journey Through Science by Philippe Squarzoni
Energized by Edward Lerner
Extinction
Fifty Degrees Below
Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick
Freedom,” Franzen
Game of Thrones
Grass, Sheri S. Tepper
Greenhouse Summer by Norman Spinrad
Greenhouse: It Will Happen in 1997
In Patagonia, Bruce Chatwin
It’s the End of the World As We Know It by Saci Lloyd
Kamikaze L’Amour: A Novel of the Future
Lilith’s Brood, by Octavia Butler
Lonesome No More!
Make Room! Make Room!
Maximum Ride” series by James Patterson
Memory of Water by Emmi Itäranta
Milwaukee the Beautiful
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Mother of Storms
My Family and Other Animals, Gerald Durrell
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki
Orleans, Sherri L. Smith
Out of the Deeps
Red Rock by Kate Kelly
Sacred Space
Shackleton’s Man Goes South by Tony White
Shadow Country, Peter Matthiessen
Sixty Days and Counting
Slapstick
Snapper
Starvation Ridge by Risa Bear
Stormteller by David Thorpe
The Alchemist and The Executioness, by Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias Buckell
The Art of Fielding
The Baron in the Trees, Italo Calvino
The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
The Call of the Wild, Jack London
The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway
The Coming of the Global Superstorm
The Death of Grass
The Doubt Factory
The Drowning Cities
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein
The Ice People
The Islands at the End of the World by Austin Aslan
The Kraken Wakes
The Lorax, by Doctor Suess
The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
The Magic Goes Away” by Larry Niven
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
The New Atlantis” by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Quiet War, by Paul McAuley
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Sheep Look Up
The Shell Collector, Anthony Doerr
The Siphoners
The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson
The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
The Tamarisk Hunter
The Twig Stories series by Jo Mitchell
The Wind from Nowhere
The World in Winter
War With the Newts
Welcome to the Greenhouse edited by Gordon Van Gelder
When the Killing’s Done, T.C. Boyle
Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America by Jon Mooallem
Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier, Wallace Stegner
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