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• The Candy House

  a Novel

  Egan, Jennifer,

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• I'm Waiting for You

  and Other Stories

  Kim, Bo Young,

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• Migrations

  McConaghy, Charlotte,

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• Recursion

  Crouch, Blake,

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• The Memory Police

  Ogawa, Yōko, 1962-

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  On an unnamed island controlled by a totalitarian, government-run militia, things begin to vanish – and when they do, people forget they ever existed. Only a select few can remember, and the Memory Police are on a mission to ensure those people are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Oryx and Crake

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  The first in a trilogy, Atwood's novel is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the population has been wiped out by a plague. Snowman, possibly the last human alive, survives alongside a group of bioengineered creatures he calls ‘the Crakers’. He…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On the Calculation of Volume. 1

  Balle, Solvej, 1962-

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  Cross Groundhog Day with a metaphysical crisis, and what do you get? Solvej Balle’s slip of a novel, On the Calculation of Volume I. Tara Selter has slipped out of time, and every morning, she wakes up to the 18th of November. But for everyone…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  One of Kazuo Ishiguro’s best-loved novels, Never Let Me Go takes readers to Hailsham, a school in late 1990s England – but it is not the England we know. At first glance, Hailsham seems like a typical boarding school, but its students are not what…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bone Clocks

  a Novel

  Mitchell, David (David Stephen)

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  In David Mitchell’s signature style, The Bone Clocks features a set of interlocking stories spanning decades and multiple timelines. This novel follows a rebellious teen who becomes the unwitting pawn in a supernatural war between two factions of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Station Eleven

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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• Bloodchild and Other Stories

  Butler, Octavia E.

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• The Dream Hotel

  a Novel

  Lalami, Laila, 1968-

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• Womb City

  Tsamaase, Tlotlo,

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• The Intuitionist

  Whitehead, Colson, 1969-

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  The 1999 debut from double-Pulitzer-winner Colson Whitehead is an unusual, oftentimes funny allegorical exploration of what mid-century America might have been like if elevators held the same fascination as aeroplanes. The Department of Elevator…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Gliff

  Smith, Ali, 1962-

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  In Ali Smith’s warning of how society can slip into totalitarianism, the hostile environment in Britain is taken to extremes. Anyone who does not comply with social norms is labelled an “unverifiable” and their house marked for destruction. When…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What We Can Know

  a Novel

  McEwan, Ian,

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  Ian McEwan described his 2025 novel as “science fiction without the science.” Set in 2119, What We Can Know depicts a world where Britain’s lowlands have become overwhelmed by global warming and submerged completely underwater. At the University of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• This Is How You Lose the Time War

  El-Mohtar, Amal,

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  Lyrical and moving, this epistolary novel is an unforgettable story between warring factions on a dying world. A bond forged through letters sets two enemy agents on a path to romance and something with the power to change everything everyone knows.

• Death With Interruptions

  Saramago, José

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• How High We Go in the Dark

  a Novel

  Nagamatsu, Sequoia,

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• The Kaiju Preservation Society

  Scalzi, John, 1969-

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  The Kaiju Preservation Society injects some sci-fi adventure into our distressing present. As COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie struggles to make ends meet as a delivery app driver. He’s worried he’ll be stuck in this dead-end job…Read moreRead more of this annotation