Ray Bradbury 1953
- What it is
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A society that controls everything · it changes how you see things
- Genre
- Science fiction Classics
- Feels
- Cerebral Unsettling Defiant Dark Reflective
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Grouped with yours in Dystopias that hit harder now
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It messes with your head · a society that controls everything
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It gets under your skin and dystopia
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1984 and Animal Farm
George Orwell 1978
A reader shelved it with yours in Dystopias
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It stirs you up inside · melancholic and unhurried
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It stirs you up inside · pitch-black comedy
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It gets under your skin and cerebral
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It messes with your head · a threat that keeps growing
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It messes with your head · it's hiding a secret
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Dystopia and cerebral
The Dream Hotel
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Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
Qualityland
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You'll keep turning it over for days · sharp and very funny
Autonomous
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Full of big ideas · nobody is entirely good
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein 2011
Full of big ideas · a society that controls everything
S.
J.J. Abrams 2013
You'll keep turning it over for days, but in a mystery
The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco 2003
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
2 books · Alike in just one
Only it gets under your skin
Water Cure
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It ties your stomach in a knot · a place nobody can leave
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Only dystopia
Chain-gang All-stars
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In common with yours: dystopia · it leaves you shaken
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess 1972
Grouped with yours in Dystopias that hit harder now
I Who Have Never Known Men
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Grouped with yours in Dystopias
Tender Is the Flesh
Agustina Bazterrica 2015
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you shaken
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan 2012
Like yours: books about books · odd and endearing
A Study in Drowning
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Like yours: books about books · the truth comes out bit by bit
Galatea 2. 2
Richard Powers 1995
You'll want to talk it over with someone · one to read slowly
The Midnight Library
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In common with yours: books about books · odd and endearing
Space Between Worlds
Micaiah Johnson 2020
In common with yours: dystopia · fierce and defiant
The Hunger Games
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Readers put them together in Dystopias that hit harder now
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix 2020
Like yours: books about books · fierce and defiant
Historian
Elizabeth Kostova 2005
Like yours: books about books · the truth comes out bit by bit
7 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
Need
Helen Phillips 2019
It messes with your head · a threat that keeps growing
Prestige
Christopher Priest 1995
You'll keep turning it over for days · the truth comes out bit by bit
Recursion
Blake Crouch 2019
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
2034
Elliot Ackerman 2021
Nothing is quite what it seems · unsettling from the first page
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Nothing is quite what it seems · no clean hands here
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer 2014
Nothing is quite what it seems · it won't tell you everything at once
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