Join the Summer 2026 Climate Reading Challenge and explore books that help us understand, protect, and reimagine our planet. Read as many books from the list below as you can by **September 22** to earn a special badge on your Wren profile.

We recommend first getting a library card. Then, [leave reviews](https://forms.gle/aeDDP2XaL7FPHJc7A) as you read along for a chance to be featured in future Wren comms!

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## Read book: "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer   New

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## Read book: "All We Can Save" edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson & Katharine K. Wilkinson   New

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## Read book: "Fire weather" by John Vaillant   New

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## Read book: "Entangled Life" by Merlin Sheldrake   New

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## Read book: "Not the end of the world" by Hannah Ritchie   New

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## Read book: "Unbowed" by Wangari Maathai   New

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## Read book: "The Backyard Bird Chronicles" by Amy Tan   New

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## Read book: "The Ministry for the Future" by Kim Stanley Robinson   New

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## Need help picking?

Here are some blurbs to help you figure out which book to check out next:

- 🌾 **Braiding Sweetgrass:** Where botany meets Indigenous wisdom. A botanist and Potawatomi citizen on what plants can teach us about reciprocity, gratitude, and belonging to the land.

- 🗣️ **All We Can Save:** The climate movement in women's voices. Essays, poetry, and art from the women leading the way.

- 🔥 **Fire Weather:** A modern city burns in real time Journalist Vaillant's gripping account of the Fort McMurray wildfire and the fossil-fueled world that made it all but inevitable.

- 🍄‍🟫 **Entangled Life:** Fungi connect forests, feed plants, and reshape ecosystems. Sheldrake's exploration of the hidden kingdom holding life together will change how you see the natural world.

- 📊 **Not the End of the World:** Data scientist Ritchie cuts through the panic to show where we're genuinely making progress, and we could be the first generation to build a truly sustainable planet.

- 🌳 **Unbowed:** One woman, 30 million trees. The Nobel Peace Prize winner's memoir of standing up to power and growing a movement from the ground up.

- **🪺 The Backyard Bird Chronicles:** Slow down and look outside—Tan trades novels for a nature journal, finding wonder outside her window.

- 🌍 **The Ministry for the Future:** A novel that reads like a dispatch from the near future. Equal parts terrifying and hopeful, a vision for how we might actually claw our way through the climate crisis.