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:

• A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys is one of the best solarpunk books I’ve read. Keeping at 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