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• Trail of Lightning

  Roanhorse, Rebecca,

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  While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn, saved by its gods and heroes of legend. These supernatural saviors walk the land, but…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  Book 1 in the Hugo-Award winning series. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small town, comes home to find that her husband has brutally murdered their son and kidnapped their…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Water Knife

  Bacigalupi, Paolo,

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  In a future hammered by climate change and drought, mountain snows have turned to rain, and rain evaporates before it hits the ground. In a fragmenting United States, the cities of Phoenix and Las Vegas skirmish for a dwindling share of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Annihilation

  VanderMeer, Jeff,

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  Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; the second expedition ended in mass…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Permafrost

  Reynolds, Alastair, 1966-

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  2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity’s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oryx and Crake

  a Novel

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Oryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ministry for the Future

  Robinson, Kim Stanley,

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  Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's future generations and to protect all living creatures, present and future. It soon became known as the Ministry for the Future, and this is…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Form and Emptiness

  Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-

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  After the tragic death of his beloved musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house--a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Glimmer

  Kellogg, M. Bradley,

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  This new cli-fi epic chronicles a future NYC wracked by climate change and follows the individuals who must make the most of what remains to survive. It's 2110, the Earth's glaciers have melted, and there's no climate fix in sight. As…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Adrift

  Brideau, Lisa

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  Ess wakes up alone on a sailboat in the remote Pacific Northwest with no memory of who she is or how she got there. She finds a note, but it's more warning than comfort: Start over. Don't make yourself known. Don't look back. Ess must…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dust

  Stine, Alison, 1978-

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  After her father has a premonition, Thea and her family move to the Bloodless Valley of southern Colorado, hoping to make a fresh start. But the rivers are dry, the crops are dying, and the black blizzards of Colorado have returned. Much…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Clean Air

  a Novel

  Blake, Sarah (Poet),

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  A decade has passed since The Turning. The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn’t the waters rising, as the scientists predicted, nor the temperature climbing, nor the forest fires spreading. It was pollen—spring…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Shutouts

  a Novel

  Korn, Gabrielle, 1989-

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  The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are pummeling the country while political tensions are rising. But Kelly's on the road anyway; she…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Weather

  a Novel

  Offill, Jenny, 1968-

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  Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years, she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Overstory

  a Novel

  Powers, Richard, 1957-

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  In his twelfth novel, National Book Award winner Richard Powers delivers a sweeping, impassioned novel of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beast of Cretacea

  Strasser, Todd,

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  Teens are sent to other planets to harvest resources and bring them back to the environmentally ravaged Earth. It centers on Ishmael, who discovers the truth about his ill-fated expedition, and the obsessions of the mysterious captain of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Road

  McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023

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  A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Blood Red Road

  Young, Moira

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  Saba has spent her whole life in Silverlake, a dried-up wasteland ravaged by constant sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. That's fine by her, as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Deluge

  Markley, Stephen,

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  In the first decades of the 21st century, the world is convulsing, its governments mired in gridlock while a patient but unrelenting ecological crisis looms. America is in upheaval, battered by violent weather and extreme politics. In…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Marrow Thieves

  Dimaline, Cherie, 1975-

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  In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's Indigenous people, and it is their marrow…Read moreRead more of this annotation