It's time to shirk off that waged labour for at least a couple of days and dive head first into a cool pool of climate fiction.On our first foray into a Summer Book Club our Lucy Burke and friend of the pod Sam Knights discuss their favourite climate reads of the summer and the political power that fantastic fiction can have on the world. You'll find all the books mentioned below and we hope you find at least a weekend to imagine what a better would could look like.
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003) @ViragoBooks
Ghassan Kanafani, Men in the Sun (1962) Lynne Rienner Publishers, second edition,1998 (not currently in print but available second hand)
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams (1990), @HarperCollins
Richard Lanchester, The Wall (2019) @FaberBooks https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/the-wall-by-john-lanchester-read-the-first-chapter/
Imbola Mbue, How Beautiful We Were (2021), Penguin Random House @penguinrandom
William Morris, News from Nowhere (1890) Penguin Classics @PenguinClassics
Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation (2002), Canongate Canons @canongatebooks
Richard Powers, The Overstory (2018) @Vintagebooks
Kim Stanley Robinson Ministry For the Future (2020), Orbit, @orbitbooks
check out our episode with Stanley here
Neil Zink, The Wallcreeper (2014) @HarperCollins
These are the books that we mentioned in passing:
Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) Penguin Modern Classics @PenguinBooks
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement (2016), University of Chicago Press @UChicagoPress
Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns (1976), Simon and Schuster @simonschuster https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Wild-Thorns/Sahar-Khalifeh/9781623710798
Ian McKewan, Solar (2010), Vintage Classics @Vintagebooks
Jenny Offill, Weather (2020), Granta Books @GrantaBooks
Jules Verne, The Purchase of the North Pole (1889) CreateSpace Independent Publishing
Isobel Wohl, Cold New Climate (2021), Weatherglass Books, @WeatherglassBks
Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time (1976)