Climate Fiction

Climate fiction, also known as cli-fi, are novels with climate change themes. Check out these cli-fi books to get started.
Updated September 19, 2022
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler
Paper Book
From a celebrated, award-winning author, a modern classic about a young girl fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world, perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Margaret Atwood. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and...
The Fifth Season
N. K. Jemisin
Paper Book
At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times) This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time. ...
The Overstory
Richard Powers
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut...
Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller Indie Bestseller Barnes & Noble Bestseller National Bestseller Amazon Best Book of the Month Indie Next Pick Best Book of the Year: New York Times Notable, Washington Post Notable, Amazon Editor's Choice, USA Today's Top Ten (#1)...
Weather
Jenny Offill
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER  From the beloved author of the nationwide best seller Dept. of Speculation--one of the New York Times Book Review's Ten Best Books of the Year--a "darkly funny and urgent" (NPR) tour de force...
Hummingbird Salamander
Jeff VanderMeer
Paper Book
Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2021 From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. Security consultant "Jane Smith" receives an envelope with a...
Clade
James Bradley
Paper Book
On a beach in Antarctica, scientist Adam Leith marks the passage of the summer solstice. Back in Sydney his partner Ellie waits for the results of her latest round of IVF treatment.  That result, when it comes, will change both their lives and propel them into a future neither could have...

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