Fiction fills me with wonder, possibilities, truth, wisdom, beauty, hope. Following are books I commend to you. One of my all-time favorites is at the top of the list. See the full Great Reads for all the books, many solarpunk and diverse futurisms:

• The Wildcraft Drones by T.K. Rex is an eco-lit, CliFi, solarpunk-leaning, and highly nuanced collection of linked stories about rewilding the Earth. Excellent read—I wanted more!
• A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys is one of the best solarpunk books I’ve read. Who will represent Earth when nonhumans from another planet come to “save” humans by insisting we leave the planet? Watershed Networks that are solarpunk in action or the corporate-governed areas of the Earth? Keeping near the top of list!
• Archangels of Funk by Andrea Hairston is a multi-layered, awesome Afrofuturist story. Hopeful climate fiction that stands alone and is part of the Redwood and Wildfire books (all excellent).
• What a Fish Looks Like by Syr Hayati Beker. Via a surreal, atypical format, we follow some who will leave on a spaceship and some who’ll stay when Earth will no longer support life as we know it.
• Proud Pink Sky by Redfern Jon Barrett. Engaging alternate history where Berlin is the first gay state. With solarpunk aspects, the author describes the novel as ambitopian.
• Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei is a chilling post-apocalyptic story where one corporation controls the world’s food supply. When one sister is missing, the other two undertake a harrowing journey.
• Ice’s End by P. Finian Reilly. Climate fiction with solarpunk tilt interwines historic and futuristic plots set in Antarctica. A future when Earth’s fresh water is scarce and one corporation is the de facto global government as the only supplier.
• How to Surf a Hurricane by Todd Medema. A high seas heist for noble but misguided purposes. Cast includes a professional hurricane surfer and a corporate inventor. Solarpunk leaning climate fiction.
• When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn is a solarpunk series with really interesting tech for energy generation and equally interesting structure for families and communities.
• 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.
• The Madonna Secret by Sophie Strand is a potent historical retelling: Jesus turns away from Mary Magdalene’s affinity with Nature and the Earth to step into patriarchal culture. And we know how that ended up.
• Troubled Waters by Mary Annaïse Heglar is based on her family’s history of Black resistance and desegregation in the 1950s, told within a story of modern-day climate crisis.
• 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

Find the full list with book annotations: HERE