Rewilding Our Stories: Read 25 environmental books in 2025

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25 participants (158 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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Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes by Ronni Lundy

Victuals: An Appalachian Journey, with Recipes

Ronni Lundy

256 pages • digital • 2016

nonfiction cookbook food and drink informative lighthearted fast-paced
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan

Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Heather Anne Swanson, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan

368 pages • paperback • 2016

nonfiction essays nature challenging informative slow-paced
Instructions for a Heatwave by Maggie O'Farrell

Instructions for a Heatwave

Maggie O'Farrell

352 pages • hardcover • 2013

fiction contemporary historical emotional reflective slow-paced
Snowglobe by Soyoung Park

Snowglobe

Snowglobe #1

Soyoung Park

373 pages • hardcover • 2024

fiction dystopian science fiction young adult adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced
The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J. Walker

The End of the World Running Club

The End of the World Running Club #1

Adrian J. Walker

455 pages • paperback • 2014

fiction science fiction adventurous medium-paced
The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

Margaret Renkl

7 hours, 48 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction essays nature hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
On Troublesome Creek by James Still

On Troublesome Creek

James Still

120 pages • paperback • 1941

fiction medium-paced
Ice by Amy Brady

Ice

Amy Brady

7 hours, 50 minutes • audio • 2023 user-added

nonfiction food and drink historical sociology
Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle Korn

Yours for the Taking

Gabrielle Korn

322 pages • hardcover • 2023

fiction dystopian lgbtqia+ science fiction dark reflective medium-paced
Dyke (geology) by Sabrina Imbler

Dyke (geology)

Sabrina Imbler

24 pages • paperback • 2020

nonfiction lgbtqia+ literary emotional informative reflective fast-paced