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Best non fiction books on climate change.
1.
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate
by:
Naomi Klein
4.16 avg rating β 27,262 ratings
2.
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
by:
Mark Lynas
4.06 avg rating β 2,056 ratings
3.
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change
by:
Fred Pearce
4.01 avg rating β 410 ratings
4.
Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change
by:
George Marshall
4.19 avg rating β 1,598 ratings
5.
Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
by:
Bill McKibben
3.95 avg rating β 4,184 ratings
6.
Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
by:
Andrew T. Guzman
3.97 avg rating β 78 ratings
7.
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
by:
Fritjof Capra
4.29 avg rating β 762 ratings
8.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
by:
Naomi Oreskes
4.17 avg rating β 7,788 ratings
9.
The Ecological Rift
by:
John Bellamy Foster
4.06 avg rating β 328 ratings
10.
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
by:
Jared Diamond
3.93 avg rating β 73,875 ratings
11.
Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity
by:
James Hansen
4.02 avg rating β 1,229 ratings
12.
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming
by:
Paul Hawken
4.40 avg rating β 4,279 ratings
13.
Moon in the Nautilus Shell: Discordant Harmonies Reconsidered: From Climate Change to Species Extinction, How Life Persists in an Ever-Changing World
by:
Daniel B. Botkin
3.81 avg rating β 26 ratings
13.
Beyond Politics: The Private Governance Response to Climate Change
by:
Michael P. Vandenbergh
4.44 avg rating β 9 ratings
15.
Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
by:
Lester R. Brown
3.96 avg rating β 477 ratings
16.
Atmosphere of Hope: Searching for Solutions to the Climate Crisis
by:
Tim Flannery
3.84 avg rating β 371 ratings
16.
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
by:
Bill Gates
4.12 avg rating β 50,139 ratings
16.
Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency
by:
Mark Lynas
4.18 avg rating β 647 ratings
19.
The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by:
Tim Flannery
3.92 avg rating β 3,336 ratings
20.
Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
by:
Elizabeth Kolbert
4.04 avg rating β 4,756 ratings
21.
Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate
by:
William F. Ruddiman
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 248 ratings
22.
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
by:
David Wallace-Wells
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 29,328 ratings
23.
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
by:
Al Gore
3.78 avg rating β 6,948 ratings
24.
The Water Will Come: Rising Seas, Sinking Cities, and the Remaking of the Civilized World
by:
Jeff Goodell
4.18 avg rating β 4,917 ratings
25.
The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions
by:
Peter Brannen
4.29 avg rating β 5,875 ratings
26.
The Legacy: An Elder's Vision for Our Sustainable Future
by:
David Suzuki
4.20 avg rating β 479 ratings
26.
The World in 2050: Four Forces Shaping Civilization's Northern Future
by:
Laurence C. Smith
3.80 avg rating β 1,042 ratings
26.
Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World
by:
Gillen D'Arcy Wood
3.70 avg rating β 694 ratings
26.
The God Species: Saving the Planet in the Age of Humans
by:
Mark Lynas
3.98 avg rating β 449 ratings
26.
The Great Unconformity: Reflections on Hope in an Imperiled World
by:
Kate Troll
4.29 avg rating β 7 ratings
26.
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
by:
Elizabeth Kolbert
4.15 avg rating β 77,293 ratings
26.
The Winning of the Carbon War: Power and Politics on the Front Line of Climate and Clean Energy
by:
Jeremy Leggett
3.96 avg rating β 57 ratings
26.
A New Reality: Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future
by:
Jonas Salk
3.67 avg rating β 88 ratings
26.
Climate Change For Beginners
by:
Dean Goodwin
4.10 avg rating β 21 ratings
26.
No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference
by:
Greta Thunberg
3.85 avg rating β 27,356 ratings
26.
Living with the climate crisis: Voices from Aotearoa
by:
Tom Doig
4.37 avg rating β 41 ratings
26.
Earth Cries
by:
Melissa Snook
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
26.
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
by:
Ben Rawlence
4.24 avg rating β 1,718 ratings
26.
Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesnβt, and Why It Matters
by:
Steven E. Koonin
4.25 avg rating β 3,607 ratings
26.
Atmosphere, CO2 on my mind
by:
Daniel Lux
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
26.
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
by:
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
4.42 avg rating β 6,311 ratings
26.
Tomorrow Is Too Late: An International Youth Manifesto for Climate Justice
by:
Grace Maddrell
4.43 avg rating β 7 ratings
26.
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World
by:
Jason Hickel
4.51 avg rating β 8,325 ratings
26.
Drawdown
by:
Paul Hawken
4.40 avg rating β 4,279 ratings
45.
The Revenge of Gaia
by:
James E. Lovelock
3.81 avg rating β 1,882 ratings
45.
Laboratory Earth: The Planetary Gamble We Can't Afford To Lose
by:
Stephen H. Schneider
3.50 avg rating β 26 ratings
45.
Unstoppable: Harnessing Science to Change the World
by:
Bill Nye
4.14 avg rating β 3,812 ratings
45.
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.76 avg rating β 660 ratings
45.
On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal
by:
Naomi Klein
4.17 avg rating β 6,330 ratings
45.
Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe
by:
Mario Alejandro Ariza
4.13 avg rating β 412 ratings
45.
Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World
by:
Katharine Hayhoe
4.29 avg rating β 2,620 ratings
45.
A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency
by:
Seth Klein
4.26 avg rating β 329 ratings
45.
The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism: Mankind and Climate Change Mania
by:
Steve Goreham
4.50 avg rating β 16 ratings
54.
What's the Worst That Could Happen?: A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
by:
Greg Craven
3.81 avg rating β 112 ratings
54.
The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World
by:
William D. Nordhaus
3.95 avg rating β 729 ratings
54.
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here
by:
Hope Jahren
4.14 avg rating β 6,982 ratings
54.
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
by:
BjΓΈrn Lomborg
4.17 avg rating β 2,631 ratings
58.
Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life
by:
Kari Marie Norgaard
4.18 avg rating β 164 ratings
58.
The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change
by:
Iain McCalman
3.79 avg rating β 418 ratings
58.
Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Even Worse than You Think
by:
Marc Morano
4.31 avg rating β 189 ratings
61.
The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
by:
Paul Gilding
3.82 avg rating β 733 ratings
61.
The Cartoon Introduction to Climate Change
by:
Yoram Bauman
4.07 avg rating β 259 ratings
63.
Future Scenarios: How Communities Can Adapt to Peak Oil and Climate Change
by:
David Holmgren
3.75 avg rating β 88 ratings
63.
The Third Horseman: Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
by:
William Rosen
3.58 avg rating β 938 ratings
65.
A Climate of Crisis: America in the Age of Environmentalism
by:
Patrick N. Allitt
3.34 avg rating β 56 ratings
66.
The Global Warming Reader: A Century of Writing About Climate Change
by:
Bill McKibben
3.91 avg rating β 131 ratings
67.
Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
by:
Christian Parenti
3.85 avg rating β 730 ratings
68.
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
by:
Al Gore
3.99 avg rating β 862 ratings
69.
The Magic School Bus and the Climate Challenge (The Magic School Bus, #12)
by:
Joanna Cole
3.99 avg rating β 557 ratings
70.
#Newsfail: Climate Change, Feminism, Gun Control, and Other Fun Stuff We Talk About Because Nobody Else Will
by:
Jamie Kilstein
3.91 avg rating β 462 ratings
71.
Weird Weather: Everything You Didn't Want to Know About Climate Change But Probably Should Find Out
by:
Kate Evans
3.91 avg rating β 58 ratings
72.
Overheated: The Human Cost of Climate Change
by:
Andrew T. Guzman
3.97 avg rating β 78 ratings
73.
The End of Ice: Bearing Witness and Finding Meaning in the Path of Climate Disruption
by:
Dahr Jamail
4.19 avg rating β 918 ratings
74.
Climate of Hope: How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
by:
Michael R. Bloomberg
4.07 avg rating β 1,018 ratings
75.
The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by:
Brian M. Fagan
3.84 avg rating β 2,720 ratings
76.
The Right to Be Cold: One Woman's Fight to Protect the Arctic and Save the Planet from Climate Change
by:
Sheila Watt-Cloutier
3.62 avg rating β 1,583 ratings
77.
Grand Canyon For Sale: Public Lands versus Private Interests in the Era of Climate Change
by:
Stephen Nash
3.97 avg rating β 30 ratings
78.
Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World
by:
Josh Tickell
4.39 avg rating β 996 ratings
79.
The Archipelago of Hope: Wisdom and Resilience from the Edge of Climate Change
by:
Gleb Raygorodetsky
4.09 avg rating β 196 ratings
80.
Electrifying America: From Thomas Edison to Climate Change (1)
by:
I. David Rosenstein
4.33 avg rating β 6 ratings
81.
Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods
by:
Richard B. Primack
3.80 avg rating β 84 ratings
82.
The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
by:
Kyle Harper
4.19 avg rating β 1,920 ratings
83.
Climate Changed: A Personal Journey through the Science
by:
Philippe Squarzoni
4.14 avg rating β 871 ratings
84.
Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction
by:
John Joseph Adams
3.68 avg rating β 357 ratings
85.
Treading on Thin Air: Atmospheric Physics, Forensic Meteorology, and Climate Change - How The Weather Shapes Our Everyday Lives
by:
Elizabeth Austin Ph. D.
2.98 avg rating β 48 ratings
86.
Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming
by:
Andreas Malm
4.32 avg rating β 757 ratings
87.
The Ferocious Summer: Adelie Penguins and the Warming of Antarctica
by:
Meredith Hooper
3.73 avg rating β 33 ratings
88.
Full Fathom Five: Ocean Warming and a Father's Legacy
by:
Gordon Chaplin
3.48 avg rating β 21 ratings
89.
Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming
by:
Fred Krupp
3.77 avg rating β 311 ratings
90.
In the Shadow of the Sabertooth: Global Warming, the Origins of the First Americans, and the Terribl
by:
Doug Peacock
3.91 avg rating β 119 ratings
91.
Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit
by:
Al Gore
3.80 avg rating β 1,487 ratings
92.
The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
by:
Al Gore
3.82 avg rating β 1,994 ratings
93.
The Assault on Reason
by:
Al Gore
3.78 avg rating β 7,356 ratings
94.
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power: Your Action Handbook to Learn the Science, Find Your Voice, and Help Solve the Climate Crisis
by:
Al Gore
3.72 avg rating β 735 ratings
95.
Our Purpose: The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture 2007
by:
Al Gore
3.92 avg rating β 93 ratings
96.
The Bill McKibben Reader: Pieces from an Active Life
by:
Bill McKibben
4.08 avg rating β 182 ratings
97.
The End of Nature
by:
Bill McKibben
3.94 avg rating β 3,088 ratings
98.
Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
by:
Bill McKibben
3.90 avg rating β 1,318 ratings
99.
Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landsca
by:
Bill McKibben
3.90 avg rating β 827 ratings
100.
Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
by:
Bill McKibben
3.73 avg rating β 2,863 ratings
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