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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Dark Matter Presents the Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird by Marissa van Uden

Dark Matter Presents the Off-Season: An Anthology of Coastal New Weird

Marissa van Uden

312 pages • paperback

fiction horror
Happy Land by Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Happy Land

Dolen Perkins-Valdez

368 pages • digital • 2025

fiction historical literary emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures by Katherine Rundell

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Katherine Rundell

208 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction history science hopeful informative sad fast-paced
How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters by Karl Steel

How Not to Make a Human: Pets, Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters

Karl Steel

280 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction history literary philosophy informative medium-paced
Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing by Clayton Thomas-Muller

Life in the City of Dirty Water: A Memoir of Healing

Clayton Thomas-Muller

240 pages • hardcover • 2021

nonfiction memoir politics emotional informative inspiring medium-paced
Poseidon's Steed The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality by Helen Scales

Poseidon's Steed The Story of Seahorses, from Myth to Reality

Helen Scales

272 pages • hardcover • 2009

nonfiction nature science adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel by David Gange

The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian's Journey from Shetland to the Channel

David Gange

388 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction history nature adventurous informative reflective slow-paced
Weird Fishes by Rae Mariz

Weird Fishes

Rae Mariz

127 pages • paperback • 2022

fiction fantasy adventurous medium-paced
I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor by Andrew Boyd

I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

Andrew Boyd

416 pages • paperback • 2023

nonfiction nature philosophy emotional reflective medium-paced
The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wrigley

The True Account of Myself as a Bird

Robert Wrigley

112 pages • digital • 2022

fiction literary poetry emotional funny reflective slow-paced