Best CLI Fi

Barbara Kingsolver's 'Flight Behavior' uses the migration patterns of monarch butterflies as a metaphor for climate change and human behavior. The novel follows a young woman in Appalachia who witness...

Omar El Akkads 'American War' depicts a second American Civil War sparked by climate change and resource scarcity. The novel follows a young womans journey through a fractured nation, exploring themes...

Kim Stanley Robinson's 'The Ministry for the Future' is a landmark work in cli-fi, detailing a future ravaged by climate disasters and the desperate measures taken to mitigate further damage. The nove...

Adrian Tchaikovsky's 'Children of Time' blends cli-fi elements with space opera and speculative biology. The novel follows the terraforming of a planet gone wrong, resulting in the rapid evolution of...

Amitav Ghosh's 'Gun Island' weaves together contemporary climate change narratives with ancient Hindu mythology. The novel follows a piro practitioner who becomes entangled in a global crisis involvin...

Charlotte McConaghy's 'Migrations' tells the story of a woman who can track the movements of fish, and her desperate journey to follow the last migration of cod across a rapidly changing ocean. The no...

Lauren Beukes' 'Afterland' presents a world where a virus has killed all men, leaving women to rebuild society. While the virus is the immediate cause of the collapse, environmental degradation and re...

Natalie Bakopoulos 'Gold Fame Citrus' follows two siblings navigating a drought-stricken California, where the government has implemented a system of water rationing and forced relocation. The novel b...

Neal Stephenson's 'Termination Shock' explores the controversial concept of geoengineering as a response to climate change. The novel follows a Texan billionaire who unilaterally attempts to cool the...

Lauren Groffs 'The Collapse of Westerly' is a collection of interconnected stories set in a small town grappling with the effects of climate change and social unrest. The novels intimate perspective a...

Paolo Bacigalupi's 'The Water Knife' offers a gripping, near-future thriller set in a drought-stricken American Southwest. The novel follows a 'water knife,' a bounty hunter tracking stolen water, as...

Lydia Millet's 'A Children's Bible' reimagines the biblical story of Noah's Ark through the lens of a wealthy, dysfunctional family facing a devastating hurricane. The novel is a darkly humorous and u...

Jason Dessen is kidnapped, knocked unconscious, and wakes up in a world where his life is completely different: he is not a college professor, but a celebrated genius who achieved the impossible. To g...