The 15 Most Anticipated Novels of 2025 –Marie Claire“A celebration of human perseverance at the hands of nature’s awe-inspiring power…Gripping, beautifully descriptive, and likely to stay with you.” –Kirkus Reviews, starred review“Commanding, heart-pounding, and haunting…Caffall has thought through every detail, matching adrenaline–raising action with profound insights into nature, science, museums, justice, family, and compassion.” –Booklist, starred review“Caffall was inspired to write her story by curators in Iraq and Leningrad who worked to protect collections from war.” –New Scientist

“Continues in the tradition of Station Eleven and The Road, fostering conversations about what we cling to in the face of danger. Unspooled in lyrical, elliptical prose, All the Water in the World is narrated by Nonie, a 13-year-old girl with a special skill for feeling into water, predicting storms, and sensing their depths.” –Marie Claire

“A gorgeously written novel that tackles not just the climate condition, but the human one. Narrated by Nonie, a young member of a family in the near future, All the Water in the World tells the story of their escape from their dwelling, which just happens to be the top of the Museum of Natural History (called Amen) until after a fierce super storm makes it inhabitable, forcing them to flee to what they desperately hope is going to be safety. This is one brilliant and engrossing book–and I’ll say my heartfelt ‘Amen’ to that.”–Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Pictures of You and Days of Wonder

“Along with its gorgeous language, its deeply human characters, its stay up all night ‘cause you have to know what happens storytelling, All the Water in the World does the goddamn impossible. It makes the climate crisis real. Devastatingly, terrifyingly, gloriously real. Eiren Caffall is a masterfulful storyteller.”–Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life

“I am gripped by Eiren Caffall’s river-going adventure tale. It moves through darkness like the beam of a flashlight: urgent, questing, incandescent.”–Josephine Ferorelli, co-author of The Conceivable Future

“When the world collapses, will our love for each other? Eiren Caffall answers the hard questions in this luminous novel. All the Water in the World is a masterful story of a family fighting to not be drowned by a changing world. Each sentence is a treasure. Read this and be changed.” –Rene Denfeld, bestselling author of The Child Finder and Sleeping Giants“All the Water in the World has everything: stunning prose, wonderful characters, powerful themes, and a plot that moves like a freight train… Nonie, the novel’s narrator and heart, spins a tale that will make you think, bring you to tears, keep you on the edge of your seat, and leave you buzzing. Read this book immediately.”–Abby Geni, author of The Lightkeepers and The Body Farm

“With its beautiful sentences and a propulsive plot, All the Water in the World, asks us how we continue to love both a world in environmental crisis and each other through that crisis. This is an essential novel for our times. Nonie, the young, neuro-divergent, main character will whisper in my ears for a very long time and that is the most powerful work a book can do.”–Nayomi Munaweera- award-winning author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors and What Lies Between Us

“Eiren Caffall’s exquisite novel of climate disaster and human tenderness has you trembling, turning pages faster and faster, wanting more, even as you try to slow down and savor writing so precisely lovely it alone breaks your heart.” –Bee Ridgway, author of The River of No Return

Eiren Caffall is a writer and musician whose work has appeared in Guernica, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Al Jazeera, The Rumpus, and on three record albums. She is the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Creative Nonfiction Grant and a Social Justice News Nexus fellowship at Northwestern University, among other awards. The author of a memoir, The Mourner’s Bestiary (2024), she lives in Chicago with her family. All the Water in the World is her first novel.