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 End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown by Adam Welz

The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown

Adam Welz

288 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction nature medium-paced
The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan

The Death and Life of the Great Lakes

Dan Egan

384 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction history nature science informative reflective slow-paced
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

324 pages • digital • 2007

nonfiction nature science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit by Lyanda Lynn Haupt

Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit

Lyanda Lynn Haupt

240 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction nature religion science informative inspiring reflective medium-paced
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change by Elizabeth Kolbert

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

Elizabeth Kolbert

225 pages • paperback • 2006

nonfiction nature politics science challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Disappearing Earth by Julia Phillips

Disappearing Earth

Julia Phillips

261 pages • hardcover • 2019

fiction literary mystery emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
Something in the Woods Loves You by Jarod K. Anderson

Something in the Woods Loves You

Jarod K. Anderson

368 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction essays memoir nature adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced
ChloroPhilia by Cristina Jurado

ChloroPhilia

Cristina Jurado

140 pages • paperback

fiction
Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr

Becoming Earth

Ferris Jabr

9 hours, 27 minutes • audio • 2024

nonfiction nature science hopeful informative reflective medium-paced
When You Had Power by Susan Kaye Quinn

When You Had Power

Nothing is Promised #1

Susan Kaye Quinn

216 pages • digital • 2020

fiction contemporary science fiction adventurous hopeful mysterious medium-paced