Books like Jennifer Government
12 books with a reading profile close to Jennifer Government by Max Barry. Outward-looking and escapist; a moderate read.
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Lucifer's Hammer
by Larry Niven
Also outward-looking and escapist · thriller, entertainment
When amateur astronomer Tim Hamner discovers a new comet, the world watches with scientific curiosity until the celestial body, dubbed Lucifer’s Hammer, strikes Earth.
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11/22/63
by Stephen King
thriller, entertainment
Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in Maine, discovers a temporal portal in a local diner’s pantry that leads directly to September 9, 1958.
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Sunrise on the Reaping
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Set twenty-four years before Katniss Everdeen’s story, this prequel centers on the Second Quarter Quell, the fiftieth anniversary of the Hunger Games.
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The Ferryman
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
The story takes place on Prospera, an isolated archipelago protected by a high-tech veil.
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Upgrade
by Blake Crouch
Also escapist · thriller, entertainment
Logan Ramsay is a genetic enforcement agent working in a future where gene editing is strictly illegal following a global famine caused by a failed experiment.
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2: Cycles
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, travel across a desolate United States as the only two survivors of a global plague that killed every creature with a Y chromosome.
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The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
by Gerard Way
Also escapist · entertainment, narrative
The story follows the fractured Hargreeves siblings as they navigate the aftermath of the apocalypse they narrowly avoided.
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The Water Knife
Also outward-looking · thriller, narrative
Set in a near-future American Southwest, the story follows Angel Velasquez, a hired mercenary for the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
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Next
Also outward-looking and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Next is a molecular biology thriller set in a world where genetic sequences are privatized and human cells are patented property.
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The Swarm
Also outward-looking and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Off the coast of Norway, a new species of aggressive worms destroys methane hydrate deposits, destabilizing the continental shelf.
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House of M
Also outward-looking and escapist · entertainment, narrative
Wanda Maximoff, the Scarlet Witch, suffers a psychological breakdown that threatens the fabric of reality.
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State of Fear
Also outward-looking and escapist · thriller, entertainment
Environmental lawyer Peter Evans becomes entangled in a global conspiracy when he discovers that a radical group is orchestrating catastrophic weather events to simulate the effects of climate change.
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