Books like Parable of the Sower
12 books with a reading profile close to Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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How High We Go in the Dark
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, science fiction
The narrative begins in the Siberian permafrost, where researchers inadvertently release an ancient "Arctic Plague" from a prehistoric corpse.
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Station Eleven
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, science fiction
The narrative begins with a stage actor dying of a heart attack during a production of King Lear, moments before a Georgia Flu pandemic kills most of the global population.
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Sea of Tranquility
narrative, science fiction
In 1912, an exiled British aristocrat hears the notes of a violin and a mechanical roar while standing in a remote Canadian forest.
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Future Home of the Living God
Also thought-provoking · narrative, science fiction
In this story, evolution has reversed.
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The Age of Miracles
narrative, science fiction
On an ordinary Saturday, the earth’s rotation begins to slow, an event known as "the slowing." Julia, an eleven-year-old living in California, watches as gravity shifts and birds fall from the sky.
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The Dreamers
Also inward-looking · narrative, science fiction
In an isolated college town in the California mountains, a student falls into a deep sleep and cannot be woken.
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To Be Taught, If Fortunate
narrative, science fiction
Ariadne is an astronaut on a four-person crew, the Lawki mission, traveling to study four potentially habitable worlds.
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Kindred
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, science fiction
Dana, a Black woman living in 1970s California, is repeatedly pulled through time to a plantation in antebellum Maryland.
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Julia
Also deep · narrative, science fiction
Julia is a feminist retelling of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, shifting the perspective from Winston Smith to his lover, Julia Worthing.
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The Anomaly
narrative, science fiction
In March 2021, an Air France flight from Paris to New York flies into a violent storm and lands safely at JFK.
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The School for Good Mothers
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, science fiction
Frida Liu is a struggling single mother who leaves her toddler, Harriet, home alone for a few hours during a lapse in judgment.
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