This climate fiction book review profiles Jenny Offill’s Weather, a 224-page novel that follows the main character, Lizzie, going through her daily minutiae. She works at a library. People overshare their problems with her. In fragmented, New York City scenes, Lizzie bumps into distressed family members, neighbors, and pseudo-strangers, all of whom need something from her. Sometimes it’s her child wanting snacks or her brother needing help managing his addiction. Other times, it’s the random stoop person who every New Yorker befriends at some point in their city residency needing a fake therapy session. Lizzie lets herself be the venting…

Is The Water Knife climate fiction? Certainly! In a future world where climate change has led to widespread droughts with unforgivable dust storms, corrupt governments fight to control water rights and keep refugees in their place. Read this if you are looking for a fast-paced dystopian thriller that shows how water scarcity could impact our humanity.  Trigger Warnings: violence, torture Why is The Water Knife Climate Fiction? In The Water Knife, generations have ignored myriad warnings about climate impacts and overconsumption as they continued to build in the Southwest United States. Nevada and California are powerful with militia and spies,…

This climate fiction book review analyzes the best-selling novel Wild Dark Shore, where climate impacts form the catalyst for the action-packed plot. Wild Dark Shore tells the story of an isolated family living on the world’s largest seed bank in the Southern Ocean who collides with an unknown woman who washes ashore. Why Climate Fiction? While the world succumbs to droughts, fires, and rising seas, a father and his three children live on Shearwater Island, a sliver of land in the middle of the Southern Ocean that is nearly uninhabitable to humans due to its frigid temperatures and wild weather.…