Books like The Martian Chronicles
12 books with a reading profile close to The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Deep; a moderate read.
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The Handmaid's Tale
Also deep · narrative, science fiction
In a near-future New England, the United States government has been replaced by the Republic of Gilead, a military theocracy.
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2
Fahrenheit 451 and Related Readings
by Ray Bradbury, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Also deep · science fiction, literary
This volume pairs Ray Bradbury’s novel with a curated selection of short stories and poems that examine censorship, intellectual uniformity, and state-mandated ignorance.
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3
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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4
Timequake
narrative, science fiction
In 2001 the universe's expansion hits a snag and snaps back to 1991, forcing everyone to relive the following ten years exactly as before, unable to change a thing.
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5
Player Piano
science fiction, literary
In a near-future Ilium, New York, total automation has rendered human labor obsolete.
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6
The Illustrated Man
by Ray Bradbury
science fiction, literary
A nameless narrator meets a vagrant whose body is covered in complex, shifting tattoos created by a time-traveling woman.
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7
American War
narrative, science fiction
In the late twenty-first century, a second American Civil War erupts after federal legislation bans fossil fuels.
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8
Bel-Ami
narrative, literary
Georges Duroy arrives in Paris as a penniless veteran with nothing but his appearance and a lack of scruples.
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9
The Arabian Nights
by Anonymous
Also deep · narrative, literary
This collection of Middle Eastern and South Asian stories is built around a frame tale.
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10
The White Tiger
narrative, literary
Balram Halwai, a chauffeur from a poverty-stricken village in rural India, details his rise to entrepreneurial success through a series of letters to the Chinese Premier.
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11
The Mountain in the Sea
by Ray Nayler
narrative, science fiction
Marine biologist Ha Nguyen travels to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to study a colony of octopuses that has developed a sophisticated culture, a symbolic language, and a defensive autonomy.
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12
Silk and Insight
narrative, literary
Set in 1950s Japan, this novel dramatizes the labor dispute at a major textile factory to examine the reality of industrial paternalism.
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