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12 books with a reading profile close to Made for Love by Alissa Nutting. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.

  1. 1 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…

  2. 2 1985

    1985

    by Anthony Burgess, Anthony Burgess

    science fiction, literary

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

  3. 3 Oryx and Crake

    Oryx and Crake

    by Margaret Atwood

    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 Feed

    Feed

    by M.T. Anderson

    science fiction, literary

    In a future where brain implants connect citizens directly to a constant stream of consumer data and instant messaging, Titus and his teenage friends live for mindless trends and corporate-sponsored recreation.

  5. 5 Chain-Gang All-Stars

    Chain-Gang All-Stars

    by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

    science fiction, literary

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

  6. 6 Galápagos

    Galápagos

    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

    science fiction, literary

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

  7. 7 Bloodchild and Other Stories

    Bloodchild and Other Stories

    by Octavia E. Butler

    science fiction, literary

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

  8. 8 This Is How You Lose the Time War

    This Is How You Lose the Time War

    by Amal El-Mohtar

    science fiction, literary

    Red and Blue are elite operatives serving two diametrically opposed empires—the technocratic Agency and the organic Garden—who fight to secure their respective futures across the threads of time.

  9. 9 Little Eyes

    Little Eyes

    by Samanta Schweblin

    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.

  10. 10 The Candy House

    The Candy House

    by Jennifer Egan

    science fiction, literary

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

  11. 11 Tender Is the Flesh

    Tender Is the Flesh

    by Agustina Bazterrica

    science fiction, literary

    In a world where a sudden virus renders all animal meat lethal, governments legalize "special meat": the breeding and slaughter of humans for systemic consumption.

  12. 12 High-Rise

    High-Rise

    by J.G. Ballard

    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.

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