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Octavia E. Butlerstandalone novel1979

Science fiction and time travel, about slavery and race and racism.

“Widely popular, it has frequently been chosen as a text by community-wide reading programs and book organizations, and for high school and college courses.”
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Earth's ChildrenSeries

series6 books1980

About coming of age, set in prehistoric and europe.

“Although Auel had previously mentioned in interviews that there would be a seventh novel, publicity announcements for the sixth confirmed that it would be the final book in the sequence.”
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Oxford Time TravelSeries

series6 books1982

Science fiction and time travel, set in british isles and europe.

“Connie Willis's Oxford Time Travel novels are set at a near-future Oxford University where historians travel into the past as observers, constrained by a version of history that resists any change large enough to alter real events.”
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BelovedNovel

Toni Morrisonstandalone novel1987

Ghost stories, dark in tone, about slavery and identity.

“Set in the period after the American Civil War, the novel tells the story of formerly enslaved people whose Cincinnati home is haunted by a malevolent spirit.”
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The TerrorNovel

Dan Simmonsstandalone novel2007

Horror, dark and tense in tone, set in arctic & antarctica.

“In the novel, while Franklin and his crew are plagued by starvation and illness, and forced to contend with mutiny and cannibalism, they are stalked across the bleak Arctic landscape by a monster.”
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The ReformatoryNovel

Tananarive Duestandalone novel2023

Horror, dark in tone, about race and racism, set in early 20th century.

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