This library contains many excerpts of green reads–stories that speak from our place in the natural world. The Dragonfly Library welcomes submissions of all kinds–nonfiction, fiction, poetry & prose, graphic novel, and short story excerpts. You may also submit nonfiction nature writing in the forms of articles and essays. See Dragonfly Library’s submission guidelines.

Newest additions:

We’re excited to bring to you excerpts from Sally Cole-Misch’s The Best Part of Us as well as Virginia Aronson’s Mottainai: A Journey in Search of the Zero Waste Life.

Some new links to Black Speculative Fiction works online, including by Osahon Ize-Iyama (Reckoning), Chinelo Onwualu (Slate), Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Apex), and Tlotlo Tsamaase (Clarkesworld)–all of these thanks to Tor.com. Thanks to Literary Hub for an excerpt of Namwali Serpell’s The Old Drift and to Simon & Schuster for an excerpt of River Solomon’s The Deep (read by Daveed Diggs).

Note: We’re now adding excerpts from other places. These entries have an external link icon next to them.

Authors and Titles

• Aithal – The Galaxy Series
• Aronson, Virginia: Mottainai: A Journey in Search of the Zero Waste Life
• Arthur, Virginia – Treed
• Aslan, Austin – Islands at the End of the World
• Atcheson, John – How Close to Savage the Soul
• Bailey, Richard R. – Stormy
• Barrett, C.M. – The Dragon Who Didn’t Fly
• Blackwell, Mat – Beef
• Blackwood, Algernon – The Willows
• Brandes, Kate – The Promise of Pierson Orchard
• Brunner, Kym – Flip the Bird
• Burt, Brian – In the Tears of God, Blood Tide
• Cameron, D.M. – Beneath the Mother Tree
• Cerqueira, João – Jesus and Magdalene
• Chauvel, Armand – The Green and the Red
• Chadha, Olivia – Balance of Fragile Things
• Clinton, Jack – Clovis
• Coleman, Peagum – In Search of Staria
• Cole-Misch, Sally – The Best Part of Us
• Collins, Paul – The Apology
• Cowley, Kell – Shrinking Sinking Land
• Datnow, Claire – The Adventures of the Sizzling Six
• D’Avanzo, Charlene – Cold Blood, Hot Sea
• Dreese, Donelle – Cave Walker
• Driver, D.G. – Whisper of the Woods, Cry of the Sea
• Dunn, Cate – Gentle
• Groenendijk, Jessica – Something Special
• Fiore, Carol – Countdown
• Follansbee, J.G. – Carbon Run
• Fraterrigo, Melissa – Glory Days
• Gadd, Jeremy – The Suicide Season
• Green, Gila – No Entry
• Greene, Randal Eldon – Descriptions of Heaven
• Habila, Helon – Oil on Water
• Hibbard, Tom – The Sacred River of Consciousness, Schizpo Code Zero: The Economics of Ambiguity and Creation of Value part 1 and part 2, Invisible Wings, Coronavirus 2020 Poems
• Holmes, Marc Taro – The Apocalypse Variations: Thirty Paintings in Thirty Days
• Hoover, Erin – Barnburner
• Houk, Emily et al. – Reckoning: Journal of Environmental Justice Fiction
• Hoyle, Trevor – The Last Gasp
• Hume, Clara – The Midnight Moon, Back to the Garden, Lost Ages
• Hyde, Jonni – Irrevocable Acts
• Ize-Iyamu, Osahon – More Sea than Tar
• Knightley, H.D. – Belief
• James, Kelvin Christopher – Augments of Change
• Judge, Gordon – Dubito, Ergo Sum
• Kingsolver, Barbara – Prodigal Summer
• Kraus, James – The Forester
• Kroes, Ken – 2022
• Lenning, K.E. – The Melt Trilogy
• Ligget, William – Watermelon Snow
• Lord, Nancy – pH, a Novel
• Lowe, Stephen – Chimbo Sok
• May, Rachel – The Audit
• Mays, Anthony – Halfway to the Truth
• Masover, Steve – Consequence
• McClure, Michael – Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha
• McGee, Chris – Mr. Green Jeans
• Melchiore, Ron – Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness: Which Way Do I Go?, Wandering for 165 Days and Nights
• Mellor, Belinda – Silvana: The Greening
• Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
• Mercer, George: Dyed in the Green series: Wood Buffalo
• Milton, John – Paradise Lost
• Mkangelwa, Luvuyo – Poems
• Morin, J.L. – Nature’s Confession
• Morrison, Duncan – Hope or High Water
• Muir, John – Our National Parks
• Mulvenna, Donna – All Things Breathe Alike, The Silence Spreading Across the Natural World, Wild Roots: Coming Alive in the Natural World
• Naresh, Mehek – Left Behind
• Ogden, Don – Bad Atmosphere: A Collection of Poetry & Prose on the Climate Crisis
• Okungbowa, Suyi Davies – Dune Song
• Onwualu, Chinelo – What the Dead Man Said
• Newton, J.L. – Oink: A Food for Thought Mystery
• Popielaski, John – The Hollow Middle
• Pratt, Annis – The Road to Beaver Mill, Fly Out of Darkness, The Marshlanders
• Prescott, Bev – 2 Degrees
• Prideaux, Margi – Beautiful Giant
• Raymond, Midge – My Last Continent
• Robinson, Lorin R. – Tales from the Warming
• Rohini Bisgaard, Tanja  2047: Short Stories from Our Common Future
  
• Rommel, Keith – Ice Canyon Monster
• Ryan, Jean – Survival Skills
• Sampler, Patrik – The Ocean Container
• Schaefer, James A. – Two Houses of Oikos
• Serpell, Namwali – The Old Drift
• Slaven, Marissa – Code Blue
• Spitzer, Mark – Garapaima
• Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
• Solomon, River – The Deep (audio)
• Sparks, Cat – Lotus Blue
• Tavormina, Patricia – Aerovoyant: The Industrial Age, Volume One
• Tepperman, Jean – Warning from My Future Self
• Thorpe, David – Stormteller, Weatherfronts
• Tillman, Ned – Saving the Places We Love
• Tsamaase, Tlotlo – Eclipse Our Sins
• VanderMeer, Jeff – Annihilation
• Verant, M – Power in the Age of Lies: A Political Thriller
• Walker, Lisa – Melt
• Welch, Carolyn – California Poems
• Woodbury, Mary – The Little Big Town
• Wright, Anthony – Pimp the Cosmos
• Wristen Colbert – Jaimee – Wild Things, Vanishing Acts
• Yunker, John – The Tourist Trail
• Zachary, Eichholz – The End of the Beginning
• Zetland, David et al. – Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 1 and Life Plus 2 Meters, Volume 2 with John Sayer, Emma J. Myatt
• Zornado, J. – Gods of the Little Earth, The Power at the Bottom of the Earth, When Immortals Reign