Reading List

Man-made global warming and climate change can be viewed from many perspectives - environmental, scientific, ecological, technical, political, economic, social, ethical and more. This selection of books includes a reasonably broad range of perspectives. This is an evolving list of books, most of which are now available from Nailsworth Library.

A. Climate Change and Impacts

  1. ‘The Climate Book’ created by Greta Thunberg

  2. ‘Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction’ by Mark Maslin

  3. ‘Climate Change’ by HRH The Prince of Wales, Tony Juniper and Dr Emily Shuckburgh (The Ladybird Expert Series)

  4. ‘Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial’ by Peter Stott

  5. Angry Weather: Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change, Friederike Otto

  6. ‘Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future’ by Elizabeth Kolbert

  7. ‘The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Core, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future’ by Richard B. Alley

B. Solutions for individuals and communities

  1. ’How Bad are Bananas?’ by Mike Berners-Lee

  2. ‘From What Is To What If: Unleashing the power of imagination to create the future we want’ by Rob Hopkins

  3. ‘Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World’ by Katharine Hayhoe

  4. ‘Being the Change: Live Well and Spark a Climate Revolution’ by Peter Kalmus

  5. ‘There Is No Planet B: A Handbook for the Make or Break Years’ by Mike Berners-Lee

C. Solutions to transform the world

  1. ‘It's Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World’ by Mikaela Loach

  2. ‘Under the Sky We Make: How to be Human in a Warming World’ by Kimberly Nicholas

  3. 'How To Save Our Planet: The Facts' by Mark Maslin

  4. ‘Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation’ by Paul Hawken

  5. ‘Regenesis’ by George Monbiot

  6. 'Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval’ by Gaia Vince

  7. 'All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis', edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson

  8. ‘Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming’ by Paul Hawken

  9. ‘Atmosphere of Hope’ by Tim Flannery

  10. ‘How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The solutions we have and the breakthroughs we need’ by Bill Gates

D. Economics, Justice, Politics and Policy

  1. ‘Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist’ by Kate Raworth

  2. 'The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet' by Leah Thomas

  3. ‘The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet’ by Michael Mann

  4. ‘Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future’ by Mary Robinson

  5. ‘What Climate Justice Means And Why We Should Care’ by Elizabeth Cripps

  6. ‘Value(s) - Building A Better World for All’ by Mark Carney

  7. ‘On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal’ by Naomi Klein

  8. ’This Changes Everything’ by Naomi Klein

  9. ‘Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and governance to prevent the destruction of our planet’ by Polly Higgins

  10. ‘A Rough Ride to the Future’ by James Lovelock

  11. ‘Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States’ by Leah Stokes

E. Climate through history and Psychology

  1. ‘Merchants of Doubt’ by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M. Conway

  2. ‘The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable’ by Amitav Ghosh

  3. ‘The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis’ by Amitav Ghosh

  4. ‘Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change’ by George Marshall

  5. ‘Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life’ by Kari Marie Norgaard

  6. ‘Energy and Civilisation: A History’ by Vaclav Smil

  7. ‘How the World Really Works’ by Vaclav Smil

F. Biography and Autobiography

  1. ‘A Bigger Picture: My Fight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis’ by Vanessa Nakate

  2. ‘A Life on Our Planet: My witness statement and vision for the future’ by David Attenborough

  3. ’The Ascent of John Tyndall: Victorian scientist, mountaineer, and public intellectual’ by Roland Jackson

  4. ‘The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt the lost hero of science’ by Andrea Wulf

G. Pre-teens

  1. ‘The Last Bear’ by Hannah Gold

  2. ‘The Lost Whale’ by Hannah Gold

  3. ‘Finding Bear’ by Hannah Gold

  4. ‘Climate Crisis for Beginners - For Beginners’ by Andy Prentice and Eddie Reynolds

H. Teens

  1. ‘The Children of the Anthropocene’ by Bella Lack

  2. ‘Diary of a Young Naturalist’ by Dara McAnulty

  3. ‘Climate Change (DK Eyewitness) ’ by John Woodward