Could this be the great climate change novel of our time? Buzz is building fast for the epic debut novel of Diane Cook, which, despite not being published yet, is already longlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. –EW A debut novel that explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged […]
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When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival. The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of […]
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A sumptuously written novel of love and grief; of sisterly affection and the ultimate sacrifice; of technological progress and climate catastrophe; of an enigmatic bear and a talking whale—The End of the World Is Bigger than Love is unlike anything you’ve read before. Goodreads Reviews Back to Goodreads
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In this near-future environmental thriller, rebels who research genetically modified plants try to discover the government mole who is betraying their work. –Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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Deals with the way in which climate change fears leads a once solid marriage to slowly fall apart. –Inews UK Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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In this arresting, exquisite novel, time acquires a new quality. When human civilization is over and there’s no hope left for society, what Krivak imagines is a stillness. An incandescent calm settles upon the earth now that humans are no longer capable of doing any further damage. His unnamed father […]
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In Paul Greci’s The Wild Lands, Travis and his sister are trapped in a daily race to survive–and there is no second place. Natural disasters and a breakdown of civilization have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Now, as food runs out and the few who […]
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We originally posted The History of Bees in June 2017 and then updated this post in December 2019 with the second two books in the Klimakvartetten series. In the spirit of Station Eleven and Never Let Me Go, this dazzling and ambitious literary debut follows three generations of beekeepers from […]
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Hollow Kingdom is a humorous, big-hearted, and boundlessly beautiful romp through the apocalypse and the world that comes after, where even a cowardly crow can become a hero. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America’s great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. Goodreads […]
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The sea has invaded its boundaries, and its inhabitants reside in a towering structure called the Bombadrome, which hovers above the barren land. Theirs is an artificially equated society; they lead technologically directed lives; they have no memory of the past. They don’t remember that this place was once called […]
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In 2017, Christopher Brown published his debut novel, Tropic of Kansas, a near-future thriller that explores how climate change and broken politics have created a dystopian wasteland…Rule of Capture is a prequel set in the same world. –The Verge Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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“The Warehouse” traffics in big ideas: unchecked monopoly, surveillance capitalism, climate change, the gig economy, consumerism and political gridlock. But, retailed in elegant, unobtrusive prose, this cinematic sci-fi thriller wears its subjects lightly. –San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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The book is practically a novelization of German pastor Martin Niemoller’s post-World War II poem “First they came …,” but the environmental effects of the disappearances of things like roses and fruit make Ogawa’s prose feel applicable not just to political atrocities like genocide but to climate change or any […]
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Argentinian Pola Oloixarac’s novel investigates humanity’s quest for knowledge and control, hurtling from the 19th century mania for scientific classification to present-day mass surveillance and the next steps in human evolution. Goodreads Reviews Back to GoodReads
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