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Margaret Atwoodstandalone novel2015

Dark in tone, about totalitarianism.

series2 books1951

completed

About books and reading and totalitarianism.

“Set in a future where books are outlawed and firemen exist to burn them, it follows fireman Guy Montag as doubts about his job push him toward the very literature he's supposed to destroy.”
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The Man Who JapedNovel

Philip K. Dickstandalone novel1956

Satire, dark in tone, about totalitarianism, set in our world.

“Although one of Dick's lesser-known novels, it features several of the ideas and themes that recur throughout his later works.”
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CrosstalkNovel

Connie Willisstandalone novel2016

Romance, about psychic powers, set in our world and contemporary.

“In a similar situation to Bellwether and Passage, the main character, Briddey Flannigan, is part of a larger institution who gets caught up in series of escalating events.”
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Stranger in a Strange LandNovel

Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1961

First contact, about aliens and faith and religion.

The Handmaid's TaleSeries

series3 books1985

Dark and tense in tone, about totalitarianism and gender and society.

“The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel set in Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States and forces fertile women into reproductive servitude as Handmaids; it is narrated by one such woman, Offred.”
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