Let’s Talk Bookish: Climate Fiction

Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly bookish meme created by Rukky @ Eternity Books and co-hosted by Aria @ Book Nook Bits and Dini @ Dinipandareads! Every Friday they have a different topic for participants to write about and discuss, e.g. like this post. This week’s prompt is as follows: Climate fiction is an increasingly popular genre, and has grown from being seen as a sci-fi subgenre to a broader category of its own — its own literary prize even being established in 2025. Have you read climate fiction (‘cli-fi’) or books centred around environmental issues? Do stories about the climate or the environment make you feel hopeful, anxious, or something else? Do you think cli-fi can influence how people think about the environment? I haven’t really thought of it as a genre on its own, since most of my experience of climate fiction has been in science fiction (where it’s long been a concern, either covered in the main plot or just part of the worldbuilding). I’m not sure how much recent…