Category: Climate Fiction
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Sally In 2014 a great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. In 2119 the lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas.… Continue Reading “What We Can Know – Ian McEwan”
READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS All Her Lives is a collection of nine linked stories about women throughout the ages who have battled, persevered and instigated change, and whom are finding their place in society. Did homecoming have to be this, too? Being outside,… Continue Reading “All Her Lives – Ingrid Horrocks”
Category: Climate Fiction, Cultural, Environmental fiction, Female Experience, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, NZ Book Awards, Political, Queer, Short StoriesTags: Free Range Bookclub 2026, Kiwi Fiction, Ockham NZ Book Awards
Posted on September 17, 2025
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READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel In a climate ravaged dystopian future where robots (Hums) take the every day jobs of humans and surveillance is at an all time high, a woman undergoes experiental facial surgery in order to pay her bills and treat her… Continue Reading “Hum – Helen Phillips”
Category: AI, Climate Fiction, Climate Fiction Prize, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Dystopian, Environmental fiction, Family drama, Female Experience, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, Realist, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Surreal, Thriller, US fictionTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025
READ FOR BOOKCLUBChosen by Rachel Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny sub-antarctic island that is home to the world’s largest seed bank. It is being destroyed by climate change and while the Salts await rescuers, a woman washes… Continue Reading “Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy”
Category: Australian author, Climate Fiction, Environmental fiction, Family drama, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, Psychological, Speculative Fiction, Thriller, Women's PrizeTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025, Women's Prize
READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Three neighbouring families in a small New Zealand town become acquaintances, some get along, others are suspicious of each other. Some share an attraction, another has a strange gift for premonition and another is acting cagey and has secrets… Continue Reading “The Mires – Tina Makereti”
Category: Climate Fiction, Colonisation, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Environmental fiction, Female Experience, Immigrant story, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Magical Realism, Māori Fiction, NZ Book Awards, Political, Realist, Speculative FictionTags: Free Range Bookclub 2025, Kiwi Fiction, Ockham NZ Book Awards
READ FOR NZ BOOK AWARDS Libby Holt is on holiday with husband Curtis but due to unforeseen circumstances she ends up staying at the majestic Grand Glacier Hotel by herself. A new friendship and a quest with hidden clues keep her entertained but her… Continue Reading “At The Grand Glacier Hotel – Laurence Fearnley”
READ FOR BOOKERTHON One day in the life of six astronauts in a space station, hurtling around earth 16 times. They admire and ponder life from afar, considering humanity from the Big Bang, current environmental crises through to thoughts on where humanity might end… Continue Reading “Orbital – Samantha Harvey”
Category: Booker Prize, Climate Fiction, Climate Fiction Prize, Contemporary fiction, Environmental fiction, Existentialist, Experimental fiction, Literary fiction, Philosophical, Political, Psychological, Stream Of Consciousness, UK authorTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR BOOKERTHON A grieving, unnamed narrator attends a spiritual retreat at a convent, departs and returns again with no plan of leaving. As an atheist she is committed to giving back through hard work rather than praying. Set over Covid, the narrator finds… Continue Reading “Stone Yard Devotional – Charlotte Wood”
Category: Australian author, Booker Prize, Climate Fiction, Contemporary fiction, Covid Fiction, Environmental fiction, Existentialist, Faith & Religion, Female Experience, Literary fiction, Mystery/Crime, Philosophical, Psychological, RealistTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2024
READ FOR WOMEN’S PRIZE Ea is a spinner dolphin who is deaf and cannot spin properly. When catastrophe befalls her family, Ea feels partly to blame and decides to leave the pod, meeting a vast array of other sea life. Climate fiction with talking animals and… Continue Reading “Pod – Laline Paull”
READ FOR BOOKERTHON An astrobiologist helps his neuro-divergent son understand our beautiful, imperilled planet Theo Byrne is an astrobiologist looking for life in space while also caring for his behaviourally challenged son, Robin. Theo’s wife, an environmental activist, has died in a car crash… Continue Reading “Bewilderment – Richard Powers”
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