Rewilding Our Stories: Read 25 environmental books in 2025

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24 participants (150 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Welcome to the 2025 Reading Challenge hosted by Rewilding Our Stories, a group of ecofiction readers who are interested in climate and ecological themes in contemporary and speculative arts and literature. The goal of this year's reading challenge is to read up to 25 new-to-you books with environmental themes in 2025. The books you choose can be any genre or length: a slim poetry collection counts just as much as a lengthy speculative fiction novel or a dense academic monograph. 

This is a drop-in challenge that anyone can join, regardless of whether you read 5 environmental books this year or 25. The point of the challenge is to encourage us to diversify our eco-reading, share recommendations, and have fun. 

You are welcome to join our Discord server to share your progress and discuss what you've read: https://discord.gg/hXQWTEgpbT 

Challenge Books

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Bat Blood: The Devil's Claw by Richard Myerscough

Bat Blood: The Devil's Claw

Richard Myerscough

432 pages • 2013 • 4 editions

fiction horror thriller dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses

Robin Wall Kimmerer

168 pages • 2003 • 21 editions

nonfiction essays nature informative reflective slow-paced
The History of the Countryside: The Classic History of Britain's Landscape, Flora and Fauna by Oliver Rackham

The History of the Countryside: The Classic History of Britain's Landscape, Flora and Fauna

Oliver Rackham

448 pages • 1987 • 4 editions

nonfiction history nature reference informative lighthearted slow-paced
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life by George Monbiot

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life

George Monbiot

256 pages • 2013 • 13 editions

nonfiction nature science informative reflective slow-paced
Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars by John Gaudet

Papyrus: The Plant that Changed the World: From Ancient Egypt to Today's Water Wars

John Gaudet

272 pages • 2014 • 2 editions

nonfiction history nature science challenging informative slow-paced
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson

The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World

Patrik Svensson

256 pages • 2019 • 58 editions

nonfiction memoir nature science informative reflective medium-paced
The End of Nature by Bill McKibben

The End of Nature

Bill McKibben

195 pages • 1989 • 10 editions

nonfiction nature science informative slow-paced
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered

Ernst F. Schumacher

352 pages • 1973 • 30 editions

nonfiction economics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver

384 pages • 2007 • 19 editions

nonfiction food and drink memoir informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan

340 pages • 2005 • 22 editions

nonfiction history dark informative sad medium-paced