I was so excited to see my book being labeled ‘hopepunk’ in early reviews, because hope is something I feel very strongly about when it comes to climate stories. I believe there’s a place for stories of warning and doom and apocalypse, but there is also a place for the narratives of good people succeeding, of resilient relationships withstanding stress and conflict, of a natural world waiting for us to simply move with it instead of against it.
And so I’m pleased to share five of my favorite hopeful books for this climate emergency. Not all of them are explicitly about climate change, of course, but I find in each text listed below stories of hope waiting to be found…