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Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Originally published in 1998, this shockingly prescient novel's timely message of hope and resistance in the face of fanaticism is...
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The Alloy of Law
Brandon Sanderson
The New York Times and USA Today bestseller
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New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson
NOMINATED FOR THE HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 2018 New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a...
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Liberation Day
George Saunders
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that...
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Untamed Shore
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In this dark coming-of-age noir, a “Patricia Highsmith-like tale of grifts and con artists” (Crime Time), a young woman becomes...
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Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
A hilarious satire about college life and high class manners, this is a classic of postwar English literature. Regarded by...
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The Story of a New Name
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Matrix
Lauren Groff
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