Recommended Books about Climate Change

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climate change
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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850
by Brian M. Fagan
915 members
15 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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2
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by Jared M. Diamond
12,446 members
182 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
3
The World Without Us
by Alan Weisman
6,018 members
189 reviews
3.8
Member
aulsmith
4
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by Elizabeth Kolbert
3,846 members
166 reviews
4.1
Member
inge87
5
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by Mark Lynas
555 members
17 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
6
The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
by Brian Fagan
453 members
8 reviews
3.9
Member
aulsmith
7
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by Brian Fagan
383 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
aulsmith
8
Global Crisis : War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
by Geoffrey Parker
367 members
3 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
inge87
9
Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations
by Brian Fagan
274 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
aulsmith
10
Tambora. The Eruption that Changed the World
by Gillen D'Arcy Wood
161 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
inge87
12
The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
by Brian Fagan
85 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
inge87
15
Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past
by Chris Turney
33 members
3.8
Member
inge87
16
The White Planet: The Evolution and Future of Our Frozen World
by Jean Jouzel
26 members
4
Member
inge87
17
Climate Change Impacts in the United States 2014 Report
by Jerry M. Melillo
6 members
Member
aulsmith
18
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by Elizabeth Kolbert
1,008 members
20 reviews
3.9
19
Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction
by Mark Maslin
370 members
2 reviews
3.8
20
The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
by William Rosen
246 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
21
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
by William F. Ruddiman
185 members
5 reviews
4.1
23
Climate: A Very Short Introduction
by Mark Maslin
67 members
½ 3.5
24
Thirst: Water and Power in the Ancient World
by Steven Mithen
53 members
1 review
½ 3.3
25
The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change
by Robert Henson
52 members
3.8
26
Narwhals: Arctic Whales in a Melting World
by Todd McLeish
44 members
1 review
3
27
Grass, Soil, Hope: A Journey Through Carbon Country
by Courtney White
43 members
1 review
4.2
28
Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
by Andrew T. Guzman
36 members
3.8
30
Behind the Curve: Science and the Politics of Global Warming
by Joshua P. Howe
17 members
1 review
½ 3.7
31
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
by Naomi Klein
2,347 members
50 reviews
4.1
32
Flight Behavior
by Barbara Kingsolver
4,079 members
239 reviews
3.9
33
The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery
1,520 members
20 reviews
4
34
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming
by Al Gore
2,544 members
33 reviews
4
35
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by David Wallace-Wells
1,600 members
60 reviews
3.9
36
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution and How It Can Renew America
by Thomas L. Friedman
3,348 members
59 reviews
½ 3.7
37
Solar
by Ian McEwan
3,733 members
151 reviews
½ 3.3
38
The Ministry for the Future
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,751 members
72 reviews
3.8
39
Forty Signs of Rain
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,443 members
48 reviews
½ 3.5
40
Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning
by George Monbiot
576 members
17 reviews
3.9
41
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by Bill McKibben
816 members
33 reviews
3.8
42
The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity
by James E. Lovelock
803 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
43
Fifty Degrees Below
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,045 members
32 reviews
½ 3.6
44
The Water Knife
by Paolo Bacigalupi
1,887 members
95 reviews
3.8
45
Migrations
by Charlotte McConaghy
1,241 members
83 reviews
4.1
46
State of Fear
by Michael Crichton
8,912 members
148 reviews
½ 3.4
47
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
by Amitav Ghosh
517 members
10 reviews
4.1
48
The Overstory
by Richard Powers
5,790 members
253 reviews
4.1
49
Bewilderment
by Richard Powers
1,637 members
79 reviews
3.9
50
New York 2140
by Kim Stanley Robinson
1,417 members
72 reviews
½ 3.6
52
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
by Elizabeth Kolbert
636 members
24 reviews
4.1
53
Weather
by Jenny Offill
1,249 members
70 reviews
½ 3.6
55
Termination Shock
by Neal Stephenson
1,030 members
42 reviews
½ 3.7
56
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by Greta Thunberg
900 members
32 reviews
4
57
The Drowned World
by J. G. Ballard
2,839 members
68 reviews
½ 3.4
58
A Children's Bible
by Lydia Millet
940 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
59
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by Bill Gates
791 members
26 reviews
3.9
60
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by Jeff Goodell
415 members
14 reviews
4.1
61
Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
by John Vaillant
391 members
19 reviews
½ 4.4
62
The End of Nature
by Bill McKibben
931 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
63
Sixty Days and Counting
by Kim Stanley Robinson
802 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
64
Storms of my grandchildren
by James Hansen
327 members
13 reviews
3.8
65
Earth in the Balance
by Al Gore
1,472 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
66
Parable of the Sower
by Octavia E. Butler
8,600 members
242 reviews
4.1
67
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
by Fred Pearce
260 members
12 reviews
4
68
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
by Hope Jahren
381 members
20 reviews
4
69
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
by Al Gore
420 members
8 reviews
3.9
70
The Rough Guide to Climate Change
by Robert Henson
265 members
15 reviews
4
71
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
by Naomi Klein
484 members
9 reviews
4
72
How High We Go in the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
1,266 members
53 reviews
½ 3.7
73
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by Paul Hawken
516 members
12 reviews
3.9
74
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
by Jeff Goodell
240 members
11 reviews
4.1
75
We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
by Jonathan Safran Foer
513 members
19 reviews
½ 3.6
76
The Wall
by John Lanchester
730 members
51 reviews
½ 3.6
77
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
342 members
8 reviews
4.2
78
An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming [Young Adult Adaptation]
by Al Gore
473 members
11 reviews
4.1
79
The Windup Girl
by Paolo Bacigalupi
6,394 members
306 reviews
½ 3.7
81
Climate Change and Water Resources
by Sangam Shrestha
29 members
82
The Carbon Diaries 2015
by Saci Lloyd
550 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
83
Memory of Water
by Emmi Itäranta
630 members
48 reviews
3.8
84
Losing Earth: A Recent History
by Nathaniel Rich
288 members
10 reviews
4
86
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
by Sir David Attenborough
707 members
21 reviews
½ 4.4
87
The Light Pirate
by Lily Brooks-Dalton
544 members
30 reviews
4.2
88
Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming
by Bjørn Lomborg
487 members
16 reviews
3.8
89
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
by James E. Lovelock
324 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
90
We Are the Weather Makers: The History of Climate Change
by Tim Flannery
205 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
91
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth
by Mark Hertsgaard
202 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
92
Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats
by Gwynne Dyer
176 members
6 reviews
3.9
93
The Calculating Stars
by Mary Robinette Kowal
2,137 members
135 reviews
3.9
95
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
by Amitav Ghosh
289 members
7 reviews
4.1
97
Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore
by Elizabeth Rush
239 members
4 reviews
½ 4.4
98
The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
by Eugene Linden
184 members
1 review
½ 3.6
99
Climate Change: Past, Present, and Future
by Marie-Antoinette Mélières
25 members
100
Dry
by Neal Shusterman
1,224 members
46 reviews
3.9