Eco Fiction

Eco-fiction is ecologically oriented fiction, which may be nature-oriented (non-human oriented) or environment-oriented (human impacts on nature). Eco-fiction became popular in the 1970s, along with other environmental movements, and opened up a new literary study that connected humanities and nature. Eco-fiction novels and prose zoom out to beyond the personal narrative and connect us to the commons around us–our natural habitat. Previous literary scholarship often ignored this crucial connection.

The Overstory
Migrations
Greenwood
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Once There Were Wolves
Flight Behavior
The Windup Girl
Wild Dark Shore
Bewilderment
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
The Ministry for the Future
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
Dune (Dune, #1)
Borne (Borne, #1)
The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
Paradise Broken by Rob MarshallThe Wild Birds by Emily StrelowThe Overstory by Richard PowersOryx and Crake by Margaret AtwoodThe Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey
New and Classic Eco-Fiction
88 books — 116 voters
Dune by Frank Patrick HerbertParable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerProject Hail Mary by Andy WeirFlight Behaviour by Barbara KingsolverWild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy
52 Book Club 2025: #14 - Climate Fiction
206 books — 163 voters

More Than Any River by Victoria TatumA River Captured by Eileen Delehanty PearkesThe Water Knife by Paolo BacigalupiNew York 2140 by Kim Stanley RobinsonLost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Books About Water
14 books — 1 voter
Bad Company by K.A. MitchellClear Water by Amy LaneThe Happy Onion by Ally BlueBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. KluneWe Are But A Moment by Ulrich Baer
Eco-friendly gay fiction
24 books — 18 voters

A Diary in the Age of Water by Nina MunteanuGaia's Revolution by Nina MunteanuFragment by Craig      RussellA River Captured by Eileen Delehanty PearkesCamp Zero by Michelle Min Sterling
Canadian Eco-Fiction
20 books — 4 voters

Costi Gurgu
The evening city lay decrepit and silent under an incessantly seething pink sky. A sky that hung overhead like a field of bloody cotton candy, bisected by the lightning of constantly raging storms. Every once in a while thunder rolled through the streets, shaking the buildings. This was life after the last Black Rain.
Costi Gurgu, Pink Corrosion

Tony Hillerman
Terrible drought, crops dead, sheep dying. Spring dried up. No water. The Hopi, and the Christian, maybe the Moslem, they pray for rain. The Navajo has the proper ceremony done to restore himself to harmony with the drought. You see what I mean. The system is designed to recognize what's beyond human power to change, and then to change the human's attitude to be content with the inevitable." - Tony Hillerman, Sacred Clowns, 1993 ...more
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