Do You Know These Novels Driven by Climate Change?
Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s multiple-choice quiz designed to test your knowledge of books and literary culture. This week’s challenge is focused on relatively recent novels that are set in a world where the effects of ecological disruption are quite real and help propel the plot.
Just tap or click on the title you think is correct to see the answer. After the last question, you’ll find links to the novels if you’d like to do some further reading.
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This 2020 novel centers on a university librarian who moonlights as an assistant for the host of a climate-change podcast and eventually becomes preoccupied with disaster psychology. What is the book?
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In “Perilous Times,” Thomas D. Lee’s 2023 comic fantasy novel, Sir Kay of King Arthur’s round table is summoned back to life whenever Britain is in peril — and this time, climate change is one of the major threats. As in most variations of the Arthurian legend, what is the name of the magical sword in the story?
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“American War,” Omar El Akkad’s 2017 debut novel, depicts a United States in turmoil, partly due to climate disruption and disease. But what is the “war” of the book’s title?
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This 2013 young-adult novel by Sherri L. Smith imagines a Gulf Coast region that was hit by several devastating hurricanes in the years after Katrina in 2005 — and then walled off from the rest of the country because of a Delta Fever plague in 2020. The book’s main action takes place in 2056 and tells the story of a teen girl trying to get out of the quarantined area and a scientist trying to get into it. What is the title of the book?
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In “New York 2140,” Kim Stanley Robinson’s 2017 science fiction novel, the Big Apple has been transformed by what kind of event?
