Fiction fills me with wonder, possibilities, truth, wisdom, beauty, hope. Following are books I commend to you. Some of my all-time favorites stay at the top of the list, particularly solarpunk:

• A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys is one of the best solarpunk books I’ve read. Keeping at top of list!
• Different Kinds of Defiance by Renan Bernardo. Amidst climate-changed Brazil, Renan drills deep into characters as he offers #solarpunk tech for the future. Touching and amazing stories that I highly recommend!
• Be the Sea by Clara Ward. I highly recommend this eco-lit, climate fiction with diverse (including neurodiverse) characters. The author weaves in marine biology and offers sea creature points of view in a very immersive way.
• Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell. A touching monster story that lifts inclusion and centers being different. Plus, the author’s humor is wonderful.
• All City by Alex DiFrancesco is solarpunk reminiscent of Doctorow’s Lost Cause. Community created by those left behind after Brooklyn floods.
• Alchemy of a Blackbird by Claire McMillan is historical fiction about surrealist painter Remedios Varo: mystics, art, tarot, feminism!
• The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde is set in the fjordes of Norway as humans cause the destruction of aquifers and waterways. A call to climate action!
• Sordidez by E.G. Condé is a wonderful Taino/Indigenous Futurist read where Indigenous folx survive and ultimately reclaim their lands from settler-colonists. Shows what’s truly important in the world.
• Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz is eco- and climate fiction at its best from nonhuman views including cephalopods, sea mammals, and coral. Incorporates science and Indigenous lore
• Another Life by Sarena Ulibarri is an excellent solarpunk novella by an author-anthologist who has helped shape solarpunk
• Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins is a haunting tale once unrelenting drought transfigured Southern California into a surreal landscape who reads as a living being. Explores the myths we believe about others and ourselves, and the shape of hope in a precarious future that may be our own. Chilling.
• The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow offers some actionable solarpunk for our current world. A lot of dialogue and philosophizing amidst a feasible storyline to in-fill urban areas to accommodate climate refugees and build resilient communities.
• The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monáe et al is Afrofuturistism exploring different threads of liberation–queerness, race, gender plurality, and love. A wonderful, thought-provoking set of connected stories!
• The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz is an excellent solarpunk read: who is a person? how might we create regenerative, mutual societies?
• The Fifth Sacred Thing and sequel City of Refuge by Starhawk are classic solarpunk from before we called it that

Find the full list with book annotations: HERE