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A strong match for readers who like dystopian suspense, domestic thriller elements, horror, and stories centered on women navigating a violent social collapse.
The Violence
Dystopian
Our take
The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson: A bestseller called “chilling [and] dizzyingly effective” by The New York Times Book Review, this dystopian thriller follows three generations of women as an epidemic of sudden, uncontrollable rage tears across America and gives Chelsea Martin a chance to escape her abusive home, with a 3.9-star average from more than 9,400 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers who like dystopian suspense, domestic thriller elements, horror, and stories centered on women navigating a violent social collapse.
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How far would you go to be free? Three generations of women forge a new path through an America torn by a mysterious wave of violence in this “chilling [and] dizzyingly effective” (The New York Times Book Review) novel of revenge, liberation, and triumph.
“A compulsively readable fusion of domestic thriller and modern horror.”—Kameron Hurley, author of The Light Brigade
“A novel that defines this era.”—Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians
FINALIST FOR THE ITW THRILLER AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times
They call it The Violence: a strange epidemic that causes the infected to experience sudden bursts of animalistic rage, with no provocation and no memory of their crimes. While it tears the nation apart, one woman sees something unlikely in the chaos—an opportunity.
Chelsea Martin has been a prisoner in her own home for too long. Her controlling husband has manipulated her for years, cutting her off from all support. Her narcissistic mother is no help, and her teen daughter is realizing she might be falling into the same trap when her once adoring boyfriend shows a dark side.
But when the Violence erupts, Chelsea creates a plan to liberate herself and her daughters once and for all.
What follows is a shocking and thrilling journey as three generations of women navigate a world in which they are finally empowered to fight back. Somewhere along the journey from her magazine-ready Tampa home to the professional wrestling ring, Chelsea becomes her own liberator, an avatar of revenge and hope, and a new heroine for a new world.
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A compelling choice for readers who favor classic space opera, mythic storytelling, and high-stakes rivalries.
Nova
Dystopian
Our take
Captain Lorq Von Ray and his crew race to harvest Illyrion, a priceless energy source found inside an exploding star, while his feud with the Red family turns the mission into a quest for revenge. A Hugo Award nominee that Time said “reads like Moby-Dick at a strobe-light show,” Nova has a 4.0-star rating from more than 1,800 Amazon reviewers. A compelling choice for readers who favor classic space opera, mythic storytelling, and high-stakes rivalries.
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A quest for a priceless element—and revenge—fuels this far-future interstellar adventure that "reads like Moby-Dick at a strobe-light show" (Time).
In 3172, the universe is divided between three political units: the stars and worlds of Draco, with Earth as its power center; the Pleiades Federation, on whose capital world, New Ark, lives the incredibly wealthy Von Ray family, descended from well-heeled merchants whose ancestors made their fortune as pirates; and the Outer Colonies, where, in their underwater mines, tiny quantities of the fabulously valuable Illyrion have been discovered. Lorq Von Ray was a playboy and young space-yacht-racing captain who, at a party at Earth's Paris, clashed with Draco's Prince Red. This sets Lorq on a demonic quest, through which he hopes to find vengeance.
When a star goes nova and implodes, in the seething stellar wreckage for a few days—even hours—lie tons of Illyrion, the element that makes interstellar travel possible. To help him secure the priceless fuel, Lorq recruits a gypsy musician, a would-be novelist, and some other ragtag misfits. But an even more dangerous fuel than Illyrion is revenge . . .
This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career.
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Best for readers who like fast-paced space adventures, forced proximity, witty banter, and romance under pressure.
Red Star Rebels
Dystopian · Romance · Sci-Fi · Teen + Young Adult
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Called “an action-packed space romance” by School Library Journal, this YA science-fiction adventure strands stowaway Cleo and wealthy Hunter on a Mars station with eight hours to outwit mercenaries, stop an explosion, and escape alive, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 100 Amazon reviewers. Best for readers who like fast-paced space adventures, forced proximity, witty banter, and romance under pressure.
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8 HOURS TO STOP AN EXPLOSION...8 HOURS TO FALL IN LOVE.
From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Illuminae and Aurora Rising comes a high-stakes, high-chemistry, sci-fi romp about a stowaway girl and the richest boy in the galaxy, racing the clock to outwit a gang of mercenaries.
It’s 2067, and the Graves family has transformed Mars from a lifeless rock into a chaotic patch of settlements. You can buy a one-way ticket to a new life--if you're rich.
Enter Hunter Graves, the handsome, ambitious grandson of the man who settled Mars. With spectacularly bad timing, Hunter arrives at the United Nations base just as an emergency evacuation sends everyone scurrying for safety. Except he’s left behind. Uh-oh.
Also stranded: Cleo, a sharp-tonged stowaway with no intention of dying today, and even less patience for overconfident trust fund boys. But the enemy of your enemy might just help you survive, so here we are.
It turns out the evacuation is just a cover for the mercenaries who come next, and the plan to blow up the base--and every trace of their crime--in eight hours.
Now, Hunter and Cleo have one shot to stop the explosion, escape alive, and deal with the inconvenient fact that they're falling for each other.
The clock is ticking.
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Ideal for readers looking for bleak zombie horror, post-apocalyptic survival, and conflict among the living.
Autumn: Aftermath
Dystopian · Post-Apocalyptic
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Called a “master suspense builder” by James Melzer, David Moody closes the original Autumn series with survivors sheltering in a medieval castle after a disease wipes out 99 percent of the population and the dead reanimate. The arrival of another group forces new conflicts over how to survive, with a 4.5-star rating from 140 Amazon reviewers. Ideal for readers looking for bleak zombie horror, post-apocalyptic survival, and conflict among the living.
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It's been almost one hundred days since a killer disease wiped out 99% of the population. Three months since the dead reanimated. Survivors are few and far between now, and those who remain stick together to give themselves the best possible chance of continuing to stay alive. They are the last of the living.
A band of refugees has taken shelter in a medieval castle – a fortress that has stood strong for hundreds of years. Besieged by the dead, they only emerge when it's absolutely necessary. As autumn turns to winter, however, the balance of power slowly begins to shift.
The unexpected appearance of survivors from another group changes everything. They bring choice, and an alternative way of life which is a far cry from the world everyone has been forced to leave behind. Society as we know it has crumbled beyond repair and things will never be the same again. Some people are ready to embrace this change, others can't let go of the past. The choice is divisive.
Are we entering mankind's final days? In the aftermath of the disease, will the last survivors destroy each other, or will the dead destroy them all?
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A strong fit for readers drawn to classic science fiction, orbital societies, political conflict, and long-form future history.
The Worlds Trilogy
Dystopian
Our take
Marianne O'Hara grows up in an orbital habitat in a future where much of humanity has left Earth, then becomes caught in the widening conflict between the planet and the man-made Worlds above it. This volume collects Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time, with a 4.3-star average from more than 200 Goodreads ratings. A strong fit for readers drawn to classic science fiction, orbital societies, political conflict, and long-form future history.
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The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War imagines a future in which most of humanity has abandoned Earth for orbiting man-made habitats.
In Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time, Joe Haldeman imagines a near future rife with exhilarating and terrifying possibilities, when hundreds of thousands of human beings have abandoned the Earth's surface to live in man-made habitats orbiting the troubled planet.
Haldeman's science fiction saga follows Marianne O'Hara, a young inhabitant of the World known as New New York, from her arrival on Earth as a student who becomes seduced by radical politics, through her coming of age amid the Worlds' war and the habitats' devastation, and ultimately to Marianne's emergence as a leader—and possibly the last hope of the human race as it heads toward the stars.
Stephen King said of the first book in Haldeman's trilogy, "There are scenes in Worlds I will remember forever." These gripping novels will enthrall anyone interested in the future—that of our planet and of the human race.
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Best for readers drawn to classic feminist science fiction, dystopian social systems, gender politics, and speculative romance.
The Shore of Women
Dystopian
Our take
In a post-nuclear future, women rule technologically advanced walled cities while men live outside them, separated except for reproduction. When Birana questions her society’s deception, she is exiled and crosses paths with hunter Arvil, forcing both to confront what they have been taught about the other side. Best for readers drawn to classic feminist science fiction, dystopian social systems, gender politics, and speculative romance.
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A dystopian tale of a power struggle between the sexes in the post-nuclear future, perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin.
After a nuclear holocaust, women rule the world. Using advanced technology, they've expelled men from their vast walled cities to roam the countryside in primitive bands, bringing them back only for the purpose of loveless reproduction under the guise of powerful goddesses.
When one young woman, Birana, questions her society's deception, she finds herself exiled among the very men she has been taught to scorn. She crosses paths with a hunter, Arvil, and the two grow close as they evade the ever-threatening female forces and the savage wilderness men. Their love just might mend their fractured world—if they manage to survive.
Hailed as "one of the genre's best writers" by the Washington Post Book World, Pamela Sargent is the author of numerous novels, including Earthseed and Venus of Dreams. The winner of the Nebula and Locus awards, she has also coauthored several Star Trek novels with George Zebrowski.
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A good pick for fans of YA dystopian science fiction, survival stories, ensemble casts, and romance woven into a post-apocalyptic setting.
The 100
Dystopian · Teen + Young Adult · Post-Apocalyptic
Our take
With humanity living on ships above a toxic Earth, leaders send one hundred juvenile delinquents to the planet to learn whether it can be reclaimed. The teens must build a community and survive a world they know only from orbit, with a 4.2-star rating from more than 5,900 Amazon reviewers. A good pick for fans of YA dystopian science fiction, survival stories, ensemble casts, and romance woven into a post-apocalyptic setting.
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Join 100 teens as they fight to survive on a barely recognizable Earth in the first book of the New York Times bestselling series that inspired the hit CW TV series.
No one has set foot on Earth in centuries—until now. Ever since a devastating nuclear war, humanity has lived on spaceships far above Earth's radioactive surface. Now, one hundred juvenile delinquents—considered expendable by society—are being sent on a dangerous mission: to recolonize the planet. It could be their second chance at life ... or it could be a suicide mission.
Clarke was arrested for treason, though she's haunted by the memory of what she really did.
Wells, the chancellor's son, came to Earth for the girl he loves—but will she ever forgive him?
Reckless Bellamy fought his way onto the transport pod to protect his sister, the other half of the only pair of siblings in the universe.
And Glass managed to escape back onto the ship, only to find that life there is just as dangerous as she feared it would be on Earth.
Confronted with a savage land and haunted by secrets from their pasts, the Hundred must fight to survive. They were never meant to be heroes, but they may be mankind's last hope.
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A strong match for readers drawn to literary dystopia, nautical journeys, grief, and stubborn hope.
I Cheerfully Refuse
Dystopian
Our take
A national bestseller called “a rare, remarkable book” by the Minneapolis Star Tribune, I Cheerfully Refuse follows a grieving musician sailing Lake Superior through a lawless near-future America in search of his departed bookselling wife. Storms, rising corpses, and a companion widen his private voyage into something larger, with a 4.2-star average from more than 5,000 Goodreads ratings. A strong match for readers drawn to literary dystopia, nautical journeys, grief, and stubborn hope.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A BARNES & NOBLE BOOK CLUB PICK • A career defining tour-de-force from New York Times bestselling, award-winning and “formidably gifted” (Chicago Tribune) author of Peace Like a River Leif Enger.
“A rare, remarkable book to be kept and reread—for its beauty of language, its gentle wisdom and its steady, unflagging hope.” — Laurie Hertzel, Minneapolis Star Tribune
A storyteller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in the literary world with Peace Like a River which sold over a million copies and captured readers’ hearts around the globe. Now comes a new milestone in this boldly imaginative author’s accomplished, resonant body of work. Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.
I Cheerfully Refuse epitomizes the “musical, sometimes magical and deeply satisfying kind of storytelling” (Los Angeles Times) for which Leif Enger is cherished. A rollicking narrative in the most evocative of settings, this latest novel is a symphony against despair and a rallying cry for the future.
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With a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,300 Amazon reviewers, it is a sharp fit for readers drawn to satirical science fiction, dark humor, evolution, and humanity’s self-inflicted…
Galapagos
Dystopian · Literary Fiction · Speculative Fiction
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Called “a madcap genealogical adventure” by The New York Times Book Review, Galápagos follows a small group of cruise passengers stranded on the islands after an apocalypse, where they become the ancestors of a radically different human race. With a 4.2-star rating from more than 3,300 Amazon reviewers, it is a sharp fit for readers drawn to satirical science fiction, dark humor, evolution, and humanity’s self-inflicted problems.
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“A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.”—The New York Times Book Review
Galápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journey. Thanks to an apocalypse, a small group of survivors stranded on the Galápagos Islands are about to become the progenitors of a brave, new, and totally different human race. In this inimitable novel, America’ s master satirist looks at our world and shows us all that is sadly, madly awry–and all that is worth saving.
Praise for Galápagos
“The best Vonnegut novel yet!”—John Irving
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Noah Hawley blends dystopian thriller, dark fairy tale, and social satire for readers who want an unsettling adventure with something to say.
Anthem
Dystopian
Our take
America is buckling under political division, climate anxiety, and a mysterious wave of teenage suicides when Simon Oliver escapes a treatment center with a group of fellow patients. Their journey across a near-future country becomes a quest to rescue one girl from a powerful billionaire known as the Wizard. Noah Hawley blends dystopian thriller, dark fairy tale, and social satire for readers who want an unsettling adventure with something to say.
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From the bestselling author of Before the Fall, a chilling and prophetic allegory of America as it is now and as it could be.
“Hawley taps into our existential anxiety—and transforms it into a hefty page turner that’s equal parts horrific, catastrophic and, at times, strangely entertaining.” —New York Times Book Review
It begins with a Song ...
In a country divided by pandemic, climate change, and incendiary rhetoric, a new plague infects American teens via social media: a contagious new meme spreading chaos and fear. Desperate parents look for something, anything to stop the madness.
At the Float Anxiety Abasement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon Oliver is trying to recover from his sister’s tragic passing. He breaks out to join a woman named Louise and a man called the Prophet on a quest as urgent as it is enigmatic. Who lies at the end of the road? A man known as the Wizard, whose past encounter with Louise sparked her own collapse.
Their quest becomes a rescue mission as those most in danger race to save one life—and the country’s future.
Anthem is rich with unforgettably vivid characters, as fast and bright as pop cinema. Noah Hawley takes readers along for a leap into the idiosyncratic pulse of the American heart, written with the playfulness, biting wit, literary power, and foresight that have made him one of our most essential writers.
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This will appeal to readers who want thoughtful dystopian fiction about wellness culture, mortality, and personal choice.
Suicide Club
Dystopian
Our take
Called “A fascinating debut novel” by Jeff VanderMeer, Lea is a genetically gifted Lifer with the chance to live forever until her estranged father draws her into a rebel network that rejects immortality, with a 4.0-star rating from more than 400 Amazon reviewers. This will appeal to readers who want thoughtful dystopian fiction about wellness culture, mortality, and personal choice.
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"A provocative new author. A fascinating debut novel. Read it!" —Jeff VanderMeer
In Rachel Heng's debut set in near future New York City—where lives last three hundred years and the pursuit of immortality is all-consuming—Lea must choose between her estranged father and her chance to live forever.
Lea Kirino is a "Lifer," which means that a roll of the genetic dice has given her the potential to live forever—if she does everything right. And Lea is an overachiever. She's a successful trader on the New York exchange—where instead of stocks, human organs are now bought and sold—she has a beautiful apartment, and a fiancé who rivals her in genetic perfection. And with the right balance of HealthTech™, rigorous juicing, and low-impact exercise, she might never die.
But Lea's perfect life is turned upside down when she spots her estranged father on a crowded sidewalk. His return marks the beginning of her downfall as she is drawn into his mysterious world of the Suicide Club, a network of powerful individuals and rebels who reject society's pursuit of immortality, and instead choose to live—and die—on their own terms. In this future world, death is not only taboo; it's also highly illegal. Soon Lea is forced to choose between a sanitized immortal existence and a short, bittersweet time with a man she has never really known, but who is the only family she has left in the world.
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Best for readers drawn to dystopian fiction about surveillance, family, gender, and state control.
An Excess Male
Dystopian · LGBTQIA+
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Called “thoughtful, heartbreaking” by Publishers Weekly, An Excess Male follows Wei-guo in near-future China, where forty million men cannot find wives and the state tightly controls marriage. His chance to join May-ling and her two husbands as a third husband puts their family’s secrets and safety at risk, with a 3.7-star average from more than 2,800 Goodreads ratings. Best for readers drawn to dystopian fiction about surveillance, family, gender, and state control.
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"Thoughtful, heartbreaking . . . King expertly explores the myriad routes to family, hope, and love in a repressive country." —Publishers Weekly
Under the One Child Policy, everyone plotted to have a son.
Now 40 million of them can't find wives.
China's One Child Policy and its cultural preference for male heirs have created a society overrun by unmarriageable men. An Excess Male is one such leftover man's quest for love and family under a State that seeks to glorify its past mistakes and impose order through authoritarian measures, reinvigorated Communist ideals, and social engineering.
Wei-guo holds fast to the belief that as long as he continues to improve himself, his chance at love will come. He finally saves up the dowry required to enter matchmaking talks at the lowest rung as a third husband—the maximum allowed by law. Only a single family shows interest, yet with May-ling and her two husbands, Wei-guo feels seen, heard, and connected like never before. But everyone and everything—walls, streetlights, garbage cans—are listening, and men, excess or not, are dispensable to the State. Wei-guo must test the limits of his love and his resolve in order to save himself and this family he has come to hold dear.
"King writes distinctive and sympathetic characters, and her vision of a not-so-far future is unnerving and thought-provoking." —The Washington Post
"Disturbing, funny, suspenseful and keenly observed." —San Francisco Chronicle
"The Handmaid's Tale of a new generation." —Peter Clines, author of Paradox Bound and The Fold
"Provocative . . . An intelligent, incisive commentary on how love survives—or doesn't—under the heel of the State." —Kirkus Reviews
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