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Cover of 1984Cover of Fahrenheit 451 Ray BradburyCover of Never Let Me GoCover of Parable Of The SowerCover of The Hunger Games
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Dystopias that hit harder now

Dystopian novels that land differently now. Each takes one true thing and turns the dial until it screams. Decades old, somehow this morning's news.

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Urgent Defiant
2 months ago 21 Viewed 21 times
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Cover of Station ElevenCover of Slow HorsesCover of Normal PeopleCover of Gentleman in MoscowCover of The Handmaid's Tale
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Read it before it was prestige TV

The books behind the prestige TV everyone binged. Read them first, picture it yourself, then argue about what the show got wrong.

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Melancholic Unflinching
2 months ago 15 Viewed 15 times
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Cover of Tuf VoyagingCover of True GritCover of Boy's lifeCover of The Last UnicornCover of I Who Have Never Known Men
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Underrated novels nobody ever recommends

The ones you stumble on by accident on a library shelf and think about for years. Underrated books that never make the usual lists, and never leave you.

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Raw Nostalgic
1 wk ago 4 Viewed 4 times
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Cover of VisionsCover of Closing The CircleCover of Deadly Thyme
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Indie, dark psychological thrillers with twists that will leave you reeling

Mainstream is good, but you sometimes want something refreshing.

Unsettling Propulsive
3 months ago 18 Viewed 18 times
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Cover of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and TomorrowCover of Conversations with FriendsCover of The secret historyCover of The Emperor's ChildrenCover of The Interestings
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Friendship novels where the group falls apart

You never notice the last time everyone was in the same room. Books about friendships with an expiry date nobody saw coming.

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Intimate Nostalgic
1 month ago 10 Viewed 10 times
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Cover of From Lukov with LoveCover of The FlatshareCover of RadianceCover of Funny StoryCover of The Safekeep
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Slow burn romance with no spark at hello

Two people who feel nothing at first, then everything. Slow burn romance where you actually watch them fall, page by page.

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Romantic Propulsive
3 months ago 19 Viewed 19 times
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Cover of World War ZCover of Living DeadCover of FeedCover of Zone OneCover of The Girl With All the Gifts
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Zombie novels where the world stays broken

The dead get up and nobody hits reset. Zombie apocalypse fiction that keeps going long after the outbreak stops being news.

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Defiant Claustrophobic
1 month ago 5 Viewed 5 times
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Cover of Guerras LunaresCover of ArtemisCover of The Moon Is a Harsh MistressCover of Luna: New MoonCover of Red Moon
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Science fiction with both feet on the Moon

Novels where the Moon stops being something you gaze at from the balcony. Here you have to walk on it, and it's not a friendly place.

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Defiant Unsettling
13 hours ago 2 Viewed 2 times
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Cover of Olive KitteridgeCover of Empire FallsCover of The Shampoo EffectCover of Peyton PlaceCover of Snow Falling on Cedars
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Small-town novels where nobody forgets

In a place this size everyone already knows the story, they're just waiting to see if you tell it the same way. The past has an address and still lives there.

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Intimate Nostalgic
1 month ago 9 Viewed 9 times
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Cover of The Haunting of Hill HouseCover of House of LeavesCover of ShiningCover of Red DragonCover of Bird Box
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Made you feel so scared you felt unsafe

Not a jolt and done — the kind of fear that follows you out of the book, has you checking the lock and the dark behind you. Some of it really happened.

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Chilling Ominous
3 months ago 21 Viewed 21 times
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Cover of SabrielCover of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesCover of The Wind in the WillowsCover of The HobbitCover of Moominland Midwinter
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Cozy with a safe haven and a dark world outside

The lamp is lit, the door is bolted, and outside the cold is doing something. Comfort reads where the safest little room is the whole point.

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Cozy Whimsical
3 months ago 16 Viewed 16 times
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Cover of The Making of Another Major Motion Picture MasterpieceCover of Beautiful RuinsCover of Mr Wilder and MeCover of TrioCover of Hollywood
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Novels about making a movie, mess and all

Bad catering and a star who won't come out of the trailer. Novels from behind the scenes of a film shoot, where the better story is the one off camera.

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Wry Funny
1 wk ago 8 Viewed 8 times
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Cover of Rebeldes pero LealesCover of Pequeña ala
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Teenage rebels and music

Rebellion is an essential part of growing up, in one form or another, and music sets the rhythm of our lives at any age.

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Intimate Defiant
2 months ago 2 Saved by 2 readers 13 Viewed 13 times
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Cover of Lessons in ChemistryCover of Crying in H MartCover of HeartburnCover of Eat, pray, loveCover of Sweet bean paste
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Books that made me hungry

Books about food that will make you hungry by chapter two. Meals you can almost smell, kitchens where the whole story happens. Eat first.

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Sensual Intimate
3 months ago 13 Viewed 13 times
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Cover of Stranger in a strange landCover of Project Hail MaryCover of Long Way to a Small, Angry PlanetCover of The Galaxy, and the Ground WithinCover of Humans
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Alien comes to earth and pretends to be human?

Stranger in a strange land

Whimsical Hopeful
3 months ago 19 Viewed 19 times
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