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The Last Ranger, Peter Heller

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone National Park where a skirmish between a local hunter and a wolf biologist turns violent, and a park ranger, facing his own personal demons, sets out to determine what really happened. See more at […]

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Arroyo Circle, JoeAnn Hart

Eco-novel Arroyo Circle masterfully illustrates the role of humanity and late-stage capitalism in the earth’s decay through a thrilling story set in Boulder, Colorado. With wildfires raging across the Front Range, floods decimating homes and lives along the creek, and the COVID-19 pandemic wreaking rampant catastrophe, author JoeAnn Hart illuminates the spiritual […]

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Indie Corner – Peter Brennan

Back to the Indie Corner series Note that all three books in the trilogy are published as of 2024. See the author’s site for more information. Welcome to the third post in our new Indie Corner series. Today we talk with Dr. Peter Brennan, whose first novel, Iceapelago, was inspired […]

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Indie Corner – The Owl Prowl Mystery, Diana Renn

I talked with Dianna Renn, the author of five middle grade and YA novels, including The Owl Prowl Mystery (Fitzroy Books / Regal House, coming 8/13/24) and Trouble at Turtle Pond, which was named a 2023 Green Earth Book Award Honor Book by the Nature Generation and a Massachusetts Book […]

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Spotlight – Renan Bernardo

Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Renan Bernardo’s Different Kinds of Defiance (Android Press, March 2024) is a collection for the rebels at heart—for those who find courage where hope seems lost and for whom every act of resistance is an act of sheer […]

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Virgil Harbor, Julia Glass

When two unexpected visitors arrive in an insular coastal village, they threaten the equilibrium of a community already confronting climate instability, political violence, and domestic upheavals. Read more at Penguin Random House.

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Plastic, Scott Guild

For fans of Interior Chinatown and American War, a surreal, hilarious, and sneakily profound debut novel that casts our current climate of gun violence and environmental destruction in a surprising new mold. “A stunningly brilliant novel. One of those books that will follow you around, into your dreams and your […]

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Indie Corner – The Groundworld Heroes, Adrian So

About the Book   This Indie Corner shares a Turning the Tide spotlight, which is a section of the site that highlights eco-fiction for younger audiences. In fact, this month’s author, Adrian So, had his novel accepted for publication at age 14. The Groundworld Heroes is coming out this August […]

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Pearce Oysters, Joselyn Takacs

Pearce Oysters, a lush, evocative, finely-drawn debut novel set on the Louisiana coastline during the historic 2010 oil spill, follows the Pearce family, local oyster farmers whose business, family, and livelihood are all on the brink of collapse. Eye-opening, eco-fiction at its best, Pearce Oysters highlights the grit and beauty […]

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Last House, Jessica Shattuck

“Last House soars, sweeping us through the 1960s to the near future, and following the river of oil that influences American policy. But the novel’s great beating heart is the particularities of the lives of two captivating women–one bound by social mores, the other trying to dismantle them. The sublime […]

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Spotlight – Charlie J. Stephens

Click here to return to the world eco-fiction series About the Book Charlie J. Stephens‘ A Wounded Deer Leaps Highest came out by Torrey House Press this April. In 1980’s Oregon, Smokey is figuring out how to survive childhood with a young mom who is increasingly desperate in her search […]

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InSight, Paul S. Piper

Can too much insight be dangerous? Jack Toyokata, a coder in the Seattle high-tech world, begins experiencing severe memory loss and resorts to an Internet supplement called InSight. Remarkably, the supplement works, but it has side-effects. Jack begins experiencing dreams of past murders from the victim’s point of view. With […]

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Budhini, Sarah Joseph

Translated by her daughter, Sangeetha Sreenivasan, a fiercely individualistic novelist herself, Sarah Joseph’s Budhini powerfully invokes the wider bio-politics of our relentless modernization and the dangers of being indifferent to ecological realities. Read more at Penguin House India.

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