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

All books added
The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump by Harry Turtledove

The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump

Harry Turtledove

367 pages • 1993 • 5 editions

fiction fantasy adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Naomi Klein

576 pages • 2014 • 55 editions

nonfiction economics politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter by Ben Goldfarb

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

Ben Goldfarb

304 pages • 2018 • 5 editions

nonfiction nature science adventurous informative slow-paced
Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis by Britt Wray

Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis

Britt Wray

296 pages • 2022 • 4 editions

nonfiction sociology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter

Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade

Adam Minter

304 pages • 2013 • 3 editions

nonfiction business economics challenging informative slow-paced
The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. MacKinnon

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

J.B. MacKinnon

384 pages • 2021 • 14 editions

nonfiction sociology informative reflective medium-paced
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

368 pages • 2020 • 54 editions

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet by Jeff Goodell

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

10h 7m • 2023 • 14 editions

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong

449 pages • 2022 • 30 editions

nonfiction nature science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
The Nature of Witches by Rachel Griffin

The Nature of Witches

Rachel Griffin

367 pages • 2021 • 18 editions

fiction fantasy young adult adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced