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Grist Magazine's Definitive Climate Fiction Reading List

Description: October 2021
Based on bookaward: https://grist.org/fix/definitive-climate-fiction-reading-list-cli-fi-books/

Rank Title Author Added CK Order

1

Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

8,201 members

239 reviews

4.1

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

2

The Fifth Season

by N. K. Jemisin

8,140 members

365 reviews

4.2

2 Members: aprille, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by Richard Powers

5,459 members

248 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

4

The Drowned World

by J. G. Ballard

2,778 members

67 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aprille

5

by Omar El Akkad

1,848 members

97 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

6

The Water Knife

by Paolo Bacigalupi

1,825 members

95 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

7

Trail of Lightning

by Rebecca Roanhorse

1,658 members

101 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

8

The Ministry for the Future

by Kim Stanley Robinson

1,610 members

72 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

9

by Sam J. Miller

752 members

27 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aprille

10

Zahrah the Windseeker

by Nnedi Okorafor

490 members

28 reviews

4.1

Member: aprille

11

by Tochi Onyebuchi

408 members

14 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

12

by Alexis Wright

210 members

8 reviews

2.9

Member: aprille

13

by Rita Indiana

209 members

7 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: aprille

14

McSweeney's Issue 58 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): 2040 AD - Climate Fiction Edition

by Claire Boyle

40 members

2 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: aprille

15

The New Atlantis [short fiction]

by Ursula K. Le Guin

39 members

½ 3.4

Member: aprille

16

Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures

by Christoph Rupprecht

38 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: aprille

17

by Lauren C. Teffeau

36 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: aprille

18

Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction

by Manjana Milkoreit

10 members

1 review

½ 3.5

Member: aprille

19

Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume II

10 members

1 review

Member: aprille

20

The Weight of Light: A Collection of Solar Futures

by Joey Eschrich

8 members

1 review

4

Member: aprille

21

by Tobias S. Buckell

5 members

Member: aprille

22

Everything Change: An Anthology of Climate Fiction, Volume III

2 members

1 review

4

Member: aprille

About This List

Started: aprille
October 2021
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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