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These novels center on environmental threats, ranging from climate change to corporate ecological crimes.
Key characteristics:
Corporate Greed: Legal and environmental battles against polluting companies.
Climate Change: Dystopian scenarios regarding rising sea levels or resource scarcity.
Endangered Species/Ecosystems: Man-nature conflicts, such as in Jaws.
Eco-Activists: Activism pushing to extremes, as seen in Birnam Wood.
"Once There Were Wolves" by Charlotte McConaghy - A thriller focused on rewilding and wildlife conservation.
"The Overstory" by Richard Powers - A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel centered on the lives of trees and human connection to nature.
Movies - Long Weekend (1978) - which depicts nature fighting back against humanity.
Really Outstanding and Unknown Reads
Venomous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman: A darkly comedic thriller about a tech company trying to save a species from extinction while navigating a chaotic, collapsing ecosystem.
Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff Vandermeer: A fast-paced, paranoid thriller centered on illegal wildlife trafficking and ecological collapse.
The Green Brain by Frank Herbert: A classic yet often forgotten thriller where engineered insects fight back against human destruction of the Amazon.
The New Wilderness by Diane Cook: A chilling, character-driven story about the last remnants of humanity forced to live in a strictly wild, untouched environment.
The Wall by John Lanchester: A tense, atmospheric thriller about a coastal wall built to protect a dying nation from the environmental refugees fleeing the flooded world.
The Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey: An influential, witty, and action-packed novel about eco-activists sabotaging industrial development.
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin: A short, intense, and unsettling novel focusing on environmental pollution in rural Argentina.
Wilder Girls by Rory Power: A body-horror eco-thriller about a quarantine on a remote island where a bizarre, mutated plague has taken hold.
These books highlight urgent environmental issues through suspenseful, imaginative, and often terrifying storytelling.