Fiction about climate change

The Thinning

Inga Simpson

A powerful literary page-turner about two young people in a race against time to reach a monumental solar eclipse, from famed Australian novelist Inga Simpson

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Juice

Tim Winton

An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as you’ve never read him before.

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Tasmania: A Novel

Paolo Giordano, Antony Shugaar (trans.)

After losing the future he imagined for himself, a writer sets out in search of connection and purpose at a tipping point with climate change and global conflict, in this…

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Playground

Richard Powers

A new novel from the Booker-shortlisted author

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The Dream of a Tree

Maja Lunde, Diane Oatley (trans.)

From acclaimed Norwegian author Maja Lunde, The Dream of a Tree is a chilling and gripping tale about our responsibility to this planet, both as a species and as individuals.

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The Temperature

Katerina Gibson

The debut novel from the multi-award winning author: six very different characters each have their lives altered by a tweet, a storm, a revelation - and a secret in one…

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Bewilderment

Richard Powers

A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The Overstory.

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The Swan Book

Alexis Wright

Originally published in 2014, Alexis Wright's classic novel The Swan Book is being rereleased in a new edition designed by Jenny Grigg.

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The History of Bees

Maja Lunde

In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from the past, present, and future, weaving…

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Echolalia

Briohny Doyle

What might drive a mother to do the unthinkable?

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The Forcing

Paul E. Hardisty

A cataclysmic, clarion-call, near-future climate-change thriller from one of the world’s leading environmental scientists…

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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, Book 1)

N. K. Jemisin

This is the stunning first instalment in a fantasy trilogy set in a world of volcanoes and earthquakes, where the power to control the earth is the most dangerous of…

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The High House

Jessie Greengrass

Crisis slid from distant threat to imminent probability and we tuned it out like static…

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The Road

Cormac McCarthy

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, The Road tells the story of a father and son as they journey across…

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Termination Shock

Neal Stephenson

A visionary new science fiction technothriller about climate change from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem. Reamde, and Cryptonomicon.

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The Drowned World

J. G. Ballard

When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of Crash and Empire of the Sun, reissued…

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A Children’s Bible: A Novel

Lydia Millet

A brilliant, indelible novel of teenage alienation and adult complacency in a world whose climate and culture are unravelling.

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The Stone Gods

Jeanette Winterson

On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge…

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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, Book 1)

Octavia E. Butler

The first Earthseed novel by ground-breaking writer Octavia E. Butler that feel like a prophetic nod to our current world.

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Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See returns with a heart-breaking, magnificent epic of human connection and a love letter to storytelling itself.

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Migrations

Charlotte McConaghy

For readers of Station Eleven and Everything I Never Told You, a debut novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world's last birds…

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The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his top reads of 2020, this visionary novel from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Kim Stanley Robinson is a gripping exploration of…

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Flight Behaviour

Barbara Kingsolver

On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year…

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The Glad Shout

Alice Robinson

The Glad Shout is an extraordinary novel of rare depth and texture. Told in a starkly visual and compelling narrative, this is a deeply moving homage to motherhood and the…

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Wolfe Island

Lucy Treloar

The stunning new novel from the award-winning author of Salt Creek is Barkskins or The Son meets The Road…

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The Book of Koli (The Rampart Trilogy, Book 1)

M. R. Carey

The start of a new trilogy from the author of the million-copy bestselling The Girl With All the Gifts, The Book of Koli is a modern masterpiece for fans of…

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Weather

Jenny Offill

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, a dazzling and deadpan new novel about hope and despair, fear and comfort as it plays out in these times of environmental and…

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Annihilation (Southern Reach, Book 1)

Jeff VanderMeer

The first volume of the extraordinary Southern Reach trilogy.

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The Overstory

Richard Powers

A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe.

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Something New Under the Sun

Alexandra Kleeman

Ablaze with vivid, unforgettable images and smouldering with elegiac menace, Something New Under the Sun is an unmissable novel for our present moment - a bold exploration of capitalism, corruption…

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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi

The winner of five major SF awards, The Windup Girl is both a heart-stopping dystopian thriller and a razor-sharp vision of our near future.

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Future Home of the Living God

Louise Erdrich

A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: a moving meditation on…

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The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood

An epic of biblical proportions, The Year of the Flood is a feast of imagination and a journey to the end of the world.

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Barkskins

Annie Proulx

From Annie Proulx, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News and Brokeback Mountain, comes her masterwork: an epic, dazzling, violent, magnificently dramatic novel about the taking down of the…

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New York 2140

Kim Stanley Robinson

A new vision of the future from Kim Stanley Robinson, the New York Times bestselling author of science fiction masterworks such as the Mars trilogy, 2312 and Aurora

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The Sea and Summer

George Turner

The Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel of climate change in the not-too-distant future.

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MaddAddam

Margaret Atwood

Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Atwood’s dystopian trilogy confirms the ultimate endurance of humanity, community, and love.

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Blueback

Tim Winton

Blueback is an achingly beautiful story about family, belonging, and living a life in tune with the environment, from Tim Winton, one of Australia’s best-loved authors.

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Solar

Ian McEwan

A compulsive womaniser, Michael Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. When Beard’s professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself…

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Oryx and Crake (Maddaddam, Book1)

Margaret Atwood

The outrageous imagination of Margaret Atwood has never been better. Dark, witty, scary and very credible, this is a mystery, an adventure story, a page-turner and a brilliant novel. Shortlisted…

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The Trespassers

Meg Mundell

The Trespassers is a beguiling novel that explores the consequences of greed, the experience of exile, and the unlikely ways strangers can become the people we hold dear.

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The Last Children of Tokyo

Yoko Tawada

A dreamlike story of filial love and glimmering hope, set in a future where the old live almost-forever and children’s lives are all too brief.

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The Water Knife

Paolo Bacigalupi

From the international bestselling author of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning The Windup Girl, comes an electrifying thriller set in a world on the edge of collapse

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2312

Kim Stanley Robinson

2312 is a thrilling space opera and winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, from the bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson

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Fiction about climate change

The Thinning

Juice

Tasmania: A Novel

Playground

The Dream of a Tree

The Temperature

Bewilderment

The Swan Book

The History of Bees

Echolalia

The Forcing

The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, Book 1)

The High House

The Road

Termination Shock

The Drowned World

A Children’s Bible: A Novel

The Stone Gods

Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, Book 1)

Cloud Cuckoo Land

Migrations

The Ministry for the Future

Flight Behaviour

The Glad Shout

Wolfe Island

The Book of Koli (The Rampart Trilogy, Book 1)

Weather

Annihilation (Southern Reach, Book 1)

The Overstory

Something New Under the Sun

The Windup Girl

Future Home of the Living God

The Year of the Flood

Barkskins

New York 2140

The Sea and Summer

MaddAddam

Blueback

Solar

Oryx and Crake (Maddaddam, Book1)

The Trespassers

The Last Children of Tokyo

The Water Knife

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