Laila Lalami 2025
- What it is
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A society that controls everything · it's hiding a secret
- Genre
- Science fiction Mystery Thriller
- Feels
- Cerebral Unsettling Mysterious Defiant Tense
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Nothing is quite what it seems · you'll finish it in two nights
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It messes with your head · it gets under your skin
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Nothing is quite what it seems · you'll finish it in two nights
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Nothing is quite what it seems · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
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You'll keep turning it over for days · sharp and very funny
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It messes with your head · it gets under your skin
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Full of big ideas · a society that controls everything
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A reader shelved it with yours in Dystopian novels where the system already won
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