Here as a list of the best fiction books that deal with environmental problems or climate change and how to solve these problems.
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3.75 avg rating — 78,055 ratings
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4.08 avg rating — 29,167 ratings
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4.35 avg rating — 190 ratings
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4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 7,556 ratings
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4.14 avg rating — 165 ratings
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4.65 avg rating — 17 ratings
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4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings
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4.22 avg rating — 7,840 ratings
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4.09 avg rating — 120,643 ratings
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3.57 avg rating — 4,368 ratings
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4.10 avg rating — 10,660 ratings
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3.39 avg rating — 2,667 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 225 ratings
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4.63 avg rating — 46 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 357 ratings
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4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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4.29 avg rating — 330,309 ratings
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4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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3.83 avg rating — 20,372 ratings
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4.50 avg rating — 26 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 194,387 ratings
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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3.65 avg rating — 34 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 169 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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3.87 avg rating — 83 ratings
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3.91 avg rating — 335 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 347 ratings
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4.16 avg rating — 153 ratings
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4.03 avg rating — 66 ratings
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3.54 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
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3.73 avg rating — 51 ratings
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3.80 avg rating — 75 ratings
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3.85 avg rating — 28,049 ratings
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4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 91 ratings
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3.94 avg rating — 33 ratings
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3.84 avg rating — 1,050 ratings
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3.97 avg rating — 981 ratings
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3.96 avg rating — 40,800 ratings
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4.26 avg rating — 126 ratings
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3.93 avg rating — 2,134 ratings
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4.11 avg rating — 150 ratings
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3.99 avg rating — 19,929 ratings
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4.33 avg rating — 29,968 ratings
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3.65 avg rating — 10,271 ratings
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3.69 avg rating — 171 ratings
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3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings
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3.90 avg rating — 306 ratings
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3.76 avg rating — 177 ratings
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4.02 avg rating — 520 ratings
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3.88 avg rating — 886 ratings
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3.90 avg rating — 111 ratings
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217 books · 201 voters · list created February 2nd, 2011 by Connie (votes) .
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message 1: by Claire (new)

Claire Datnow The Adventures of The Sizzling Six, Eco mystery series for teens, by Claire Datnow, skillfully weaves an exciting adventure with an ecological mystery. This series will inspire kids to become wise stewards of our precious natural resources.


message 2: by Roger (last edited Jun 04, 2012 01:02PM) (new)

Roger Drouin This is a great list! I learned about some of these books when I was looking up other fellow environmental fiction authors as I completed my novel No Other Way.


message 3: by Linda (new)

Linda Giannelli A Being Darkly Wise
Just added my choice for environmental fiction and climate fiction. Truly a compelling novel and very insightful.I could not put it down, and the same was true for my friends who also read it.


message 4: by Paul (new)

Paul Collins Don't forget to check out climate fiction ('cli-fi') books too. Here's a link to a FB cli-fi group https://www.facebook.com/groups/32053...


message 5: by Mckenzie (new)

Mckenzie Two others I can think of adding to this list: Silver Bay by Jojo Moyes and Skinny Dip by Carl Hiaasen


message 6: by Jim (new)

Jim D. People might want to read Saddam's Parrot--a provocative novel about elephants, one blabbermouth African Grey Parrot, and climate action.

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Mischief is on the wing and perhaps deliverance for a flock of San Francisco, fringe-dwelling creatives. A precocious and rebellious African grey parrot lands on the shoulder of a San Francisco elephant whisperer and begins spouting about the Bush White House and Saddam Hussein, soon provoking a desperate, madcap blackmail.--The Publisher

You will travel to strange and wondrous places on the back of elephants and the ruffled feathers of Alex, Saddam's Parrot. Absurdity and Dada are on the cusp as a Nixon impersonator takes the stage at The Mirage in Vegas, and the author of Shock and Awe gently fondles Zooey, his favorite python. Peril quickens as a hijacked circus train steams across the Napa Valley and enters the scope of a deadly sniper.

Here's what Gar Smith, the noted environmental investigator at the Berkeley Daily Planet, had to say about it:

http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/...-

Also of interest: the publisher's preview video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dcPy...


message 7: by Susan (new)

Susan Gaines There are some outliers on the list, which makes it sort of useless, but I don't know if there's a way to flag them (like Jurassic Park--no reason that should be on here)


message 8: by Christophe (new)

Christophe Horvath I would like to suggest to add Out of Time by David Klass
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...


message 9: by Susan (new)

Susan I'm looking for a book several years old in which a camp of treecutters, all male are working. They run into dire trouble trying to take a downed tree. A man, who is essentially friendless is elected to tow the tree out and is killed in the process. Any bells?
Susan Pierce


message 10: by Alan (new)

Alan Hesse Hi Connie,
Thanks for curating this great list! If appropriate, I’d love for you to consider my Captain Polo series (climate-themed graphic novels for kids), along with my nonfiction graphic novel titles 'Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection' and 'Fables of the Amazon'.
Happy to share links if helpful.
Warmly,
Alan
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...


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