Climate-Inspired Literature
- Hansel and Gretel (1812) by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
- Unnamed Dragonfly Species (2002) by Juliana Spahr
- First Light (2007) by Rebecca Stead
- To See the Earth Before the End of the World (2010) by Ed Roberson
The Eruption of Mount Tambora (1815-1818 CE)
- Poetry of the Seven Sorrows by Li Yuyang
- Darkness (1816) by Lord Byron
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) and The Vampyre by John William Polidori (1819)
Climate Themes in Literature
- Ishmael (1992) by Daniel Quinn
- Oryx and Crake (2004) by Margaret Atwood
- The Year of the Flood (2009) by Margaret Atwood
- I’m With the Bears: Short Stories from a Damaged Planet (2011) edited by Mark Martin
- Flight Behavior (2012) by Barbara Kingsolver
- Parable of the Sower (2012) by Octavia E. Butler
- MaddAddam (2013) by Margaret Atwood
- Odds Against Tomorrow (2013) by Nathaniel Rich
- Orleans (2013) by Sherri L. Smith
- The Swan Book (2013) by Alexis Wright
- Fragment (2016) by Craig Russell
- Some Possible Solutions (2016) by Helen Phillips
- American War (2017) by Omar El Akkad
- Clade (2017) by James Bradley
- Disasters in the First World (2017) by Olivia Clare
- Florida (2018) by Lauren Groff
- Guernica: March 2019 Issue
- Woodland by Lydia Millet
- Floating by Pitchaya Sudbanthad
- The Disaster Store by Helen Phillips
- Factory Air by Omar El Akkad
- McSweeney’s Issue 58: 2040 AD (2019)
- War Girls (2019) by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Rebel Sisters (2020) by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
- Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968) by Edward Abbey
- The Comedy of Survival: A Literary Ecology and a Play Ethic (1997) by Joseph W. Meeker
- Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy (2004) by Bruno Latour
- The Future of Environmental Criticism (2005) by Lawrence Buell
- Ecology Without Nature (2007) by Timothy Morton
- Climate Change is Violence (2014) by Rebecca Solnit
- Indigenous Poets Addressing Climate Change
- Tanaya Winder: Land Back as a Call to Action Against Climate Change
- Jake Skeets: Finding Home in the Desert
- Amber McCrary
- Kinsale Hueston
- Edyka Chilomé
Selected Resources
Articles
- Chiari, S. “Climate as Climax in Shakespeare’s Plays.” Ninth Congress of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa. 2016. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01719771/document.
Books
- Ghosh, A. The Great Derangement. The University of Chicago Press, 2016.
- Johnson, A. E. and Wilkinson, K. K. All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis. One World, 2020.
- Cli-Fi (Climate Fiction) Recommendations:
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- “23 Best Climate Change Science Fiction Books.” The Best Sci Fi Books. n.d. https://best-sci-fi-books.com/23-best-climate-change-science-fiction-books/.
- “Cli-Fi Archive.” Climate Generation. n.d. https://www.climategen.org/blog/tag/clifi/.
- “Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction.” Goodreads. n.d. https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/36205.Cli_Fi_Climate_Change_Fiction.
- Warmer. Amazon Original Stories, 2018. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JDKHG2Q/144-3807197-0322361?ots=1&slotNum=1&imprToken=0ebcfb25-b392-94d5-313&tag=thneyo0f-20&linkCode=w50.
- “Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities.” Teaching Climate Change in the Humanities. n.d. https://teachingclimatechange.org/.
Poetry
- Advice to a Prophet (1961) by Richard Wilbur
- As a Portent (2014) by David Baker
- Let Them Not Say (2014) by Jane Hirshfield
- Warned (2015) by Sylvia Stults
- Some Effects of Global Warming in Lackawanna County (2016) by Jay Parini
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Glacier (after Wallace Stevens) (2016) by Craig Santos Perez
- Ice Would Suffice (2017) by Risa Denenberg
- Letter to Someone Living Fifty Years from Now (2017) by Matthew Olzmann
- Particulate Matter (2018) by Molly Fisk
- Evening (2019) by Dorianne Laux
- High Dangerous (2019) by Catherine Pierce
- How to Let Go of the World (2019) by Franny Choi
- I Don’t Know What Will Kill Us First: The Race War or What We’ve Done to the Earth (2019) by Fatimah Asghar
- Letter to Noah’s Wife (2019) by Maya C. Popa
- Romance #1 (2019) by Eunsong Kim
- The Poem Grace Interrupted (2019) by Mikko Harvey