Climate Action Month 2025 Reading Suggestions

Concerns over climate change expressed through fiction and non-fiction. 

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Adult Fiction

America City – Chris Beckett

Annihilation – Jeff Vandermeer

The Bone Clocks – David Mitchell

Briefly Very Beautiful – Roz Dineen

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

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History – Peter Frankopan

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

Our Biggest Experiment  – Alice R. Bell

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

The Wild Before – Piers Torday

Children’s Non-fiction

Climate Action – Georgina Stevens

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

One Home – Hiba Noor Khan

Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World – Keltie Thomas

The Last Bear – Hannah Gold