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• Migrations

  McConaghy, Charlotte

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  Our 2024 One Read winner, “Migrations” (Flatiron Books: 2021), by Charlotte McConaghy, is found on a dystopian earth, where hope for the future has virtually disappeared to be replaced by environmental ruin. Overfishing is much to blame…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Once There Were Wolves

  McConaghy, Charlotte

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  "Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Drowned World

  Ballard, J. G., 1930-2009

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  The formal genre of eco-fiction (otherwise known as “cli-fi”) is not new; it also falls within the realms of speculative and science fiction, encompassing older works such as Phillip Ballard’s global warming parable “The Drowned World”…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Welcome to the Monkey House

  a Collection of Short Works

  Vonnegut, Kurt

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  A collection of Vonnegut's short stories, including the story now know as "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," first published in 1954 (under a different title). This story explores issues of human overpopulation and environmental…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oryx and Crake

  a Novel

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Master of speculative fiction, Margaret Atwood, explores the implications of genetic-engineering. Vivid, unexpected and haunting.

• A Friend of the Earth

  Boyle, T. Coraghessan

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  "It is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed, and most mammals—not to mention fish, birds, and frogs—are extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Forty Signs of Rain

  Robinson, Kim Stanley

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  When the Arctic ice pack was first measured in the 1950s, it averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sheep Look Up

  Brunner, John

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  Nebula Award Finalist: A “brilliantly crafted, engrossing” dystopian novel of environmental disaster by the Hugo Award–winning author of Stand on Zanzibar (The Guardian). In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wool

  Howey, Hugh,

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  "The first book in the acclaimed, New York Times best-selling trilogy, Wool is the story of mankind clawing for survival. The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  This acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from an award-winning author "pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale" and includes a foreword by N. K. Jemisin (John Green, New York Times). When global climate change and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Life as We Knew It

  Pfeffer, Susan Beth, 1948-

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  New York Times bestseller! A heart-stopping post-apocalyptic thriller that's "absorbing from first to last page."* When a meteor knocks the moon closer to earth, Miranda, a high school sophomore, takes shelter with her family. Told in a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Purchase of the North Pole

  Verne, Jules

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  First published in 1889, this Jules Verne novel tells the story of a group of people who buy the north pole with the hopes of changing the tilt of the earth to modify the global climate and create an eco-topia--and also harvest the coal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Overstory

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greenwood

  a Novel

  Christie, Michael, 1976-

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  A meandering novel that brings several stories and characters together, with several layers of meaning, plot and themes.

• Gold Fame Citrus

  Watkins, Claire Vaye,

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• The Deluge

  Markley, Stephen

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• The Great Transition

  a Novel

  Fuller Googins, Nick,

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• The Annual Migration of Clouds

  Mohamed, Premee

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• The End of the Ocean

  a Novel

  Lunde, Maja,

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• Blackfish City

  Miller, Sam J.,

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