I Eat the Stars

One of Book Riot’s 7 Best New Nonfiction Releases of June 2026
One of AARP’s 32 of the Season’s Top New Books

“Humanity seems to be at a pretty precarious point in history (climate change, political instability — all the things), which can leave some of us feeling helpless and hopeless. Wilson’s soul-searching book poses hard questions about the future while exploring ways to grapple with uncertainty and find joy despite it all.”
—AARP

“Sarah Wilson became a bestselling author with her book First, We Make the Beast Beautiful. Now she’s back with I Eat the Stars. Wilson wants you to know that you aren’t the only one struggling to live in a world seemingly on fire. Everyone is fighting to keep hope during these troubled times. In her new book, Wilson gives advice on how we can move forward and keep hope, against all of the odds against us.”
—Book Riot

“What the hell is happening to our world? The wonderful Sarah Wilson writes straight to the beating heart of what we all need to hear. This loving and uplifting book is the wise guide that can hold our hands as we tread these dark times.”
—Liam Neeson, actor and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF

“This book feels like a raw conversation with the friend who can capture where we are as a collective. There are some people I do not want to ever leave this planet. If we can keep Sarah Wilson and David Attenborough forever, there will always be beacons of possibility to guide us.”
—Lena Headey, activist and star of Game of Thrones

“Praising Sarah Wilson sufficiently is a prodigious task. Her range, her freedom of spirit, her brilliance, her unflinching honesty. . . . I Eat the Stars is a feisty, outspoken testament that devours wobbly beliefs and half-lived lies. Wilson’s not here to soothe. Her writing agitates. It awakens our exasperation, but also our compassion. It is unlike any book you have ever read. Be warned: you may never see the world again as you do now.”
—Paul Hawken, New York Times bestselling author of Drawdown

“As I read chapter after chapter of this book, I realized that Sarah Wilson understands it all—every aspect of our species, our societies, and our inclinations that make us vulnerable to collapse. I have met no one else with such knowledge and insight. Whatever your taste in reading, if you are concerned about our future, take this book seriously.”
—Joseph A. Tainter, author of The Collapse of Complex Societies

“A chilling and important book about the chaos and complexity of what’s happening in the world—and how to understand it at a human level.”
—Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author of Stolen Focus

“Sarah Wilson has taken material that I am deeply familiar with in my own work and made it
come alive in compelling and captivating ways. I love her memorable prose. I love the
non-linear romp through facts and emotions. I love her presence. This is a long, hard road we’re on, and I am glad for her companionship on the journey.”
—Margaret J. Wheatley, collapse theorist and author of Who Do We Choose to Be?

“A book for dark times that is filled with light and hope. Thoughtful, sometimes unsettling, but always brave.”
—Peter Frankopan, international bestselling author of The Silk Roads

“I Eat the Stars is a personal but information-and-thought-packed account of a vividly intelligent, profoundly concerned mind grappling with the threats and challenges of our increasingly chaotic world. Boldly and passionately confronting what is happening, Sarah Wilson seeks to make sense, to identify solutions, to question, to call out those who are harming the world, on a vigorous crusade to save the future. This is a clarion of a book. Hers is a soaring voice, which speaks with incisive clarity on behalf of the fears and hopes of many, and in doing so shows where hope is still to be found.”
—A. C. Grayling, philosopher and author of The History of Philosophy

“It is difficult to provide philosophical guidance through rupture while it is still tearing the fabric of the world apart. But this is what Sarah Wilson manages to do, with exactly the kind of tenderness and wild-spiritedness that we are going to need—and want—going forward.”
—Alain de Botton, philosopher, author, and founder of The School of Life

“When it comes to analyzing all the many things going wrong in our world, Sarah Wilson has few rivals. Her latest book sets them out with brutal clarity and whilst she does not offer policy solutions, the analysis itself is an important contribution to the current debate. We need more people like Wilson alerting the world to its painful realities if change and improvement are to come.”
—Alastair Campbell, journalist and host of The Rest Is Politics

“Drawing on perspectives from climate scientists, psychologists, and technology futurists, the author’s raw soul searching gives rise to plenty of hard questions as well as some surprisingly beautiful meditations on what it means to be human in an age of uncertainty. Challenging and rewarding, this will stick in readers’ minds.”
—Publishers Weekly, starred review