Climate Action Month 2024 Reading Suggestions
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Reading suggestions and concerns over climate change expressed through fiction and non-fiction. Request these books with your library card and PIN.
Adult Fiction
America City – Chris Beckett
Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer
The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell
The Coral Bones – E. J. Swift
Dreamland – Rosa Rankin-Gee
The End of the Ocean – Maja Lunde
The Extinction of Irena Rey – Jennifer Croft
The Fifth Season – N. K. Jemisin
Ghost Species – James Bradley
How High We Go In the Dark – Sequoia Nagamatsu
In Ascension – Martin MacInnes
The Ministry for the Future – Kim Stanley Robinson
The Parable of the Sower – Octavia E. Butler
Termination Shock – Neal Stephenson
Adult Non-fiction
The Climate Book - Greta Thunberg
Firmament: The Hidden Science of Weather, Climate Change and the Air That Surrounds Us – Simon Clark
Forget Me Not: Finding the Forgotten Species of Climate-Change Britain – Sophie Pavelle
Hothouse Earth: An Inhabitant’s Guide – Bill McGuire
Hot Mess – Matthew Winning
How Trees Can Save the World – Peter Wohlleben
Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change – Nathaniel Rich
Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change – Dieter Helm
Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval – Gaia Vince
One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate – Kate Bradbury
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet – Michael E. Mann
There Is No Planet B – Mike Berners-Lee
We Saw It All Happen – Julian Bishop
What We Need to Do Now: For a Zero Carbon Society – Chris Goodall
Teenage Titles
Black Night Falling – Teri Terry
Dry – Neal Shusterman
Green Rising – Lauren James
How to Change Everything – Naomi Klein
Snowglobe – Soyoung Park
The Song That Sings Us – Nicola Davies
Wrath – Marcus Sedgwick
Children’s Fiction
Global – Eoin Colfer
Greenwild: The World Behind the Door – Pari Thomson
Melt – Ele Fountain
Project Earth – Carol Kim
Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World – Keltie Thomas
The Wild Before – Piers Torday
Children’s Non-fiction
Climate Change – Katie Dicker
Climate Change and How We’ll Fix It – Alice Harman
Earth Heroes: 20 Inspiring Stories of People Saving Our World – Lily Dyu
Greta Thunberg - María Isabel Sánchez Vegara
Ice Journey of the Polar Bear – Martin Jenkins
The Last Bear – Hannah Gold
One Home – Hiba Noor Khan
What a Waste – Jess French