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The Handmaid's Tale The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,424,770 ratings — published 1985
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1984 1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 182 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,465,247 ratings — published 1949
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Station Eleven Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 613,806 ratings — published 2014
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1) Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 153 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.19 — 263,470 ratings — published 1993
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Brave New World Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,078,087 ratings — published 1932
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Never Let Me Go Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.85 — 854,849 ratings — published 2005
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Fahrenheit 451 Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 144 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,839,168 ratings — published 1953
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The Left Hand of Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness (Paperback)
by (shelved 136 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 220,675 ratings — published 1969
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 135 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 287,504 ratings — published 2003
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 134 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,915,608 ratings — published 2008
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 123 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.80 — 303,462 ratings — published 2014
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Sea of Tranquility Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.05 — 296,641 ratings — published 2022
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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 107 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 333,824 ratings — published 2015
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Klara and the Sun Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.74 — 434,622 ratings — published 2021
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Piranesi Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,565 ratings — published 2020
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This Is How You Lose the Time War This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 98 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.84 — 335,272 ratings — published 2019
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The Power The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.75 — 252,235 ratings — published 2016
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Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 96 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,156,898 ratings — published 2009
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Kindred Kindred (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 271,526 ratings — published 1979
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American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1) American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 91 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 990,968 ratings — published 2001
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 90 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,721,371 ratings — published 2010
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The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1) The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 89 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.08 — 494,036 ratings — published 2006
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How High We Go in the Dark How High We Go in the Dark (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.81 — 70,628 ratings — published 2022
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I Who Have Never Known Men I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 467,293 ratings — published 1995
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The Road The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,037,177 ratings — published 2006
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Dune (Dune, #1) Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,627,927 ratings — published 1965
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.26 — 151,157 ratings — published 1974
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Stories of Your Life and Others Stories of Your Life and Others (ebook)
by (shelved 85 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.25 — 125,517 ratings — published 2002
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The Giver (The Giver, #1) The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,809,217 ratings — published 1993
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Severance Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.88 — 131,116 ratings — published 2018
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 80 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.09 — 512,927 ratings — published 1968
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1) Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,300,559 ratings — published 2011
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The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1) The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,459,904 ratings — published 2020
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Dark Matter Dark Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.13 — 722,314 ratings — published 2016
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Babel Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.14 — 471,107 ratings — published 2022
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The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2) The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
by (shelved 75 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.20 — 424,017 ratings — published 2019
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Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,483,800 ratings — published 1969
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1) A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,285,717 ratings — published 1962
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The Martian The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,286,349 ratings — published 2011
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The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2) The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam, #2)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.07 — 133,003 ratings — published 2009
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,890,298 ratings — published 1818
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1) Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,474,051 ratings — published 1985
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1) All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.12 — 369,511 ratings — published 2017
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Cloud Atlas Cloud Atlas (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 267,865 ratings — published 2004
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Snow Crash Snow Crash (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.01 — 297,978 ratings — published 1992
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The City & the City The City & the City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.90 — 78,715 ratings — published 2009
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1) The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 70 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,016,586 ratings — published 1979
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A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1) A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.22 — 185,207 ratings — published 2021
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The Memory Police The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as speculative)
avg rating 3.70 — 138,964 ratings — published 1994
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Exhalation Exhalation (ebook)
by (shelved 67 times as speculative)
avg rating 4.27 — 112,901 ratings — published 2019
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Margaret Atwood
“I feel buried.”
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

Holly Walrath
“They construct billboards out in the sea, painted allegories adorn their facades, hawking sex and sentiment to the opulent, the fortunate
of the people of fortune, who bury their dead in the sand where the light of heaven is closest at dawn, and farther and farther away at twilight.”
Holly Walrath, Mithila Review Issue 8

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