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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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

430 pages • hardcover • 2022

nonfiction graphic novel memoir challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Jede Jahreszeit ist schön. Gedichte für Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter: Die schönsten Gedichte für das ganze Jahr in einer illustrierten Geschenkbuchausgabe by Anton G. Leitner

Jede Jahreszeit ist schön. Gedichte für Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter: Die schönsten Gedichte für das ganze Jahr in einer illustrierten Geschenkbuchausgabe

Anton G. Leitner

missing page info • hardcover

fiction poetry
Autorität by Jeff VanderMeer

Autorität

Southern Reach #2

Jeff VanderMeer

368 pages • paperback • 2014

fiction horror science fiction dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

Land of Milk and Honey

C Pam Zhang

232 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ literary dark mysterious reflective medium-paced
How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster by Muriel Leung

How to Fall in Love in a Time of Unnameable Disaster

Muriel Leung

253 pages • paperback • 2024

fiction dystopian dark emotional medium-paced
Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction by Joshua Whitehead

Love After the End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction

Joshua Whitehead

194 pages • digital • 2019

fiction lgbtqia+ short stories speculative fiction emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson

The Ministry for the Future

Kim Stanley Robinson

576 pages • hardcover • 2020

fiction science fiction challenging hopeful informative slow-paced
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

Trail of Lightning

The Sixth World #1

Rebecca Roanhorse

304 pages • hardcover • 2018

fiction dystopian fantasy adventurous dark fast-paced
Blackfish City by Sam J. Miller

Blackfish City

Sam J. Miller

336 pages • digital • 2018

fiction dystopian fantasy science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Tentacle by Rita Indiana

Tentacle

Rita Indiana

132 pages • paperback • 2015

fiction lgbtqia+ science fiction challenging dark mysterious medium-paced