recommended reading lists

Hundreds of books have been written about climate change. Many more have been written about climate-relevant topics. In fact, some of the most valuable reading you can do if you're interested in climate change involves books that aren't about climate change per se.

One way to screen climate change books involves those specific to climate change, as per the slide below.

Another way is to focus on bigger political and societal variables relevant to climate change, like those shown below.

Another is to look at books not necessarily focused on climate change, but on the challenges associated with tackling climate change. Topics including psychology, human behavior change, and willful blindness.

You can review some of the Climatographers' recommended climate readings in the summary slides pulled together below. While the list focuses on books, we've included at least one report because of its value in exploring the topic of climate risk.

There are lots of recommended climate change reading lists out there, including:

• 2012/7 Climate Access Summer Reading List
• 2014/10 A Review of Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) Cinema … Past and Present
• 2015/11 A swirl of books on hurricanes
• 2016/1 New climate reading for a new year
• 2017/7 The rising seas of climate change
• 2017/10 Books on climate change & humanities
• 2018/8 Children's books about climate change
• 2019/6 12 books about climate change 'solutions' that belong on your summer reading list
• 2019/10 12 major climate change reports from 2019
• 2019/10 12 reports on carbon pricing, climate security, and more

We’re always collecting reading lists in the Climate Web itself at this Index Entry: I:RecommendedReadingLists

Note that you can find most of the titles shown below (and many more) at bookshop.com, a new independent bookseller response to amazon.com. We are an affiliate of bookshop.com, and will receive a commission on any books purchased through our Climate Change Bookshop.