Twenty Favorite Works of Climate Fiction
(alphabetically by author, with ten books that are usually shelved as science fiction, ten not)
Usually Shelved as Science Fiction
The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner
The Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler *
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison
Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem
Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor
The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman
Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham
* along with its sequel, The Parable of the Talents
Usually Shelved as Mainstream Fiction
Harvest by Jim Crace
Florida by Lauren Groff
World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler
The Deluge by Stephen Markley
How the Dead Dream by Lydia Millet *
Weather by Jenny Offill
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
After World by Debbie Urbanski
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Harrow by Joy Williams
* along with the other two novels in the trilogy, Ghost Lights and Magnificence
— December 9, 2023