California
Edan Lepucki
Published 2014
393 pages
The most popular climate change books
Books about climate change face a warming planet. Scientists and reporters explain what is happening, and novelists imagine the floods, fires and migrations to come, along with the people who adapt and resist. They are sobering, and more hopeful than you might expect.
See also Climate fiction
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How the World Really Works
Vaclav Smil
Published 2022
448 pages
Hegemony Or Survival America's Quest for Global Dominance
Noam Chomsky
2003 · 2004 edition
300 pages
Hot, Flat, and Crowded
Thomas L. Friedman
Published 2008
402 pages
The Rational Optimist How Prosperity Evolves
Matt Ridley
Published 2010
438 pages
Under a White Sky The Nature of the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert
2021 · 2022 edition
272 pages
The Fire Eternal
Chris D'Lacey
2002 · 2008 edition
506 pages
Fire Weather
John Vaillant
Published 2023
432 pages
Who Rules the World?
Noam Chomsky
2016 · 2017 edition
318 pages
The Future of Humanity Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond
Michio Kaku
2018 · 2019 edition
368 pages
Arctic Drift
Clive Cussler
2008 · 2013 edition
592 pages
Food Matters
Mark Bittman
Published 2008
336 pages
Numbers Don't Lie 71 Things You Need to Know about the World
Vaclav Smil
2020 · 2021 edition
384 pages
We Are the Weather Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Jonathan Safran Foer
Published 2019
288 pages
Less is More How Degrowth Will Save the World
Jason Hickel
Published 2020
336 pages
Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
Published 2025
384 pages
Stealing Fire How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work
Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal
Published 2017
304 pages
The Heat Will Kill You First Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell
Published 2023
385 pages
The Story of More (Adapted for Young Adults) How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
Hope Jahren
2019 · 2021 edition
208 pages
The Deluge
Stephen Markley
Published 2023
880 pages
The Future We Choose Surviving the Climate Crisis
Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac
Published 2020
240 pages
Nature
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1985 · 1992 edition
372 pages
Blue Skies
T.C. Boyle
Published 2023
384 pages
All We Can Save Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson
2019 · 2021 edition
448 pages