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12 books with a reading profile close to Feed by M.T. Anderson. Deep and thought-provoking; an easy read.

  1. 1 Bloodchild and Other Stories

    Bloodchild and Other Stories

    by Octavia E. Butler

    Also deep and thought-provoking · science fiction, literary

    This collection centers on biological interdependence and the physical cost of survival.

  2. 2 Chain-Gang All-Stars

    Chain-Gang All-Stars

    by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    Also deep and thought-provoking · science fiction, literary

    In this dystopian novel, the United States prison system operates as a televised death match.

  3. 3 Oryx and Crake

    Oryx and Crake

    by Margaret Atwood

    Also deep · science fiction, literary

    Snowman, formerly known as Jimmy, is the last human survivor in a world populated by the Crakers, a floor-model species of genetically engineered humanoids.

  4. 4 The Candy House

    The Candy House

    by Jennifer Egan

    Also deep and thought-provoking · science fiction, literary

    Bix Bouton, a tech entrepreneur who appeared in A Visit from the Goon Squad, develops a technology called Own Your Unconscious.

  5. 5 1985

    1985

    by Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess

    Also deep · science fiction, literary

    Anthony Burgess divides this work into a critical analysis and a fictional response to George Orwell’s dystopian vision.

  6. 6 Little Eyes

    Little Eyes

    by Samanta Schweblin

    Also deep and thought-provoking · science fiction, literary

    In Samanta Schweblin's novel, a new device called a kentuki, a small robot animal with a camera for eyes, becomes a global craze.

  7. 7 Galápagos

    Galápagos

    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    Also deep · science fiction, literary

    Set one million years in the future, the ghost of Leon Trout narrates the regression of the human race.

  8. 8 High-Rise

    High-Rise

    by J.G. Ballard

    Also deep and thought-provoking · science fiction, literary

    A new forty-story tower block on the edge of London houses a thousand tenants, stacked by income, with professionals on top and families lower down.

  9. 9 The Employees

    The Employees

    by Olga Ravn

    Also deep and thought-provoking · science fiction, literary

    Set aboard the Six-Thousand Ship orbiting the planet New Discovery, the narrative unfolds through a series of witness statements delivered to an anonymous committee.

  10. 10 Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

    Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    Also thought-provoking · science fiction, literary

    Wilbur Swain, last president of the United States, is writing his memoirs from the ruins of Manhattan, now called the Island of Death.

  11. 11 Severance

    Severance

    by Ling Ma

    Also thought-provoking · science fiction, literary

    Candace Chen is a millennial Bible production coordinator living in New York when Shen Fever, a fungal infection that compels victims to perform repetitive routines until death, collapses global society.

  12. 12 Mona Lisa Overdrive

    Mona Lisa Overdrive

    by William Gibson

    science fiction, literary

    The narrative follows four converging plotlines eight years after the events of Count Zero: a young Japanese girl sent to London for safety, a prostitute named Mona who undergoes surgical alteration to impersonate a fam…

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