The 9 books on this stack
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Laila Lalami 2025
Why it's on the stack
Nothing is quite what it seems · a mystery you want to solve
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"Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime.
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Jennifer Egan 2022
Why it's on the stack
Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
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The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.”
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Agustina Bazterrica 2015 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It ties your stomach in a knot · a society that controls everything
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His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living.
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Julia Armfield 2024
Why it's on the stack
It won't tell you everything at once · a farewell that moves you
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There's no way to bury a body in earth which is flooded It's been raining for a long time now, for so long that the lands have reshaped themselves.
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Dave Eggers 2021
Why it's on the stack
It messes with your head · a society that controls everything
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When the world's largest search engine/social media company, the Circle, merges with the planet's dominant e-commerce site, it creates the richest and most dangerous - and, oddly enough, most…
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Ned Beauman 2022
Why it's on the stack
Pitch-black comedy · prose with a spark
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The venomous lumpsucker is the most intelligent fish on the planet.
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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah 2023 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It leaves you shaken · fierce and defiant
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She felt their eyes, all those executioners... Enter a world where, watched by millions, prisoners fight like gladiators for the ultimate prize: their freedom.
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Jessamine Chan 2022
Why it's on the stack
It stirs you up inside · a society that controls everything
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Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices.
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Kazuo Ishiguro 2019 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Sad, and in no hurry · tender and sad at once
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Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of…