Summer Challenge 2026: Nature Plays a Role

Looking for help completing your Summer Challenge Bingo Card? Here are some books where nature plays a major role in the story!

Updated June 25, 2026
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The river has roots
El-Mohtar, Amal
Paper Book
A Locus and Nebula Award Winner for Best Novella! A Hugo Award finalist! An Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick! The River Has Roots is the hugely anticipated solo debut of the New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award winning author Amal El-Mohtar....
Braiding sweetgrass for young adults : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants
Kimmerer, Robin Wall
Audiobook
Eradication: A Fable
Miles, Jonathan
A blackly comic literary gem in which a broken man confronts a broken world on an uninhabited Pacific island, where a conservation assignment becomes a moral reckoning. "An instant classic." --The Washington Post * "Excellent " --The New York Times * "Urgent and lyrical...
Daughters of snow and cinders
Tamarit, Nuria
Paper Book
Fleeing the fires of her war-torn homeland, a young woman travels to the New World in search of gold to rebuild her life. In this strange, lawless land, Joana encounters friends (the kind Native women Tala and Opa), foes (the cruel gold hunter Matwei and his men), and an unexpected traveling...
All the pretty places : a novel of the Gilded Age
Callaway, Joy
Ebook

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