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Books like The Year of the Flood
The best books like The Year of the Flood are Homage to Catalonia, Beloved, and The Handmaid's Tale. The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood is about environmental collapse, corporations and power, religion and community. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Homage to Catalonia
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George Orwell · Memoir
Homage to Catalonia is George Orwell's firsthand account of fighting in the Spanish Civil War, which he joined in late 1936 as a volunteer with the POUM militia — a Trotskyist revolutionary organization that was later suppressed by the Soviet-backed Stalinist wing of the Republican forces.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beloved
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Toni Morrison · Literary fiction
Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house shadowed by the ghost of a baby she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood · Literary fiction
The Handmaid's Tale is set in the near-future theocratic Republic of Gilead, carved out of what was once the northeastern United States after a coup by a fundamentalist Christian movement.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Animal Farm
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George Orwell · Literary fiction
When the animals of Manor Farm drive out their human farmer and establish a republic governed by the principle that all animals are equal, the revolution feels like liberation.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Ubik
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Philip K. Dick · Science fiction
Set in a near-future 1992 where psychic mercenaries and anti-psi agents compete for corporate contracts, Ubik opens as a routine job goes catastrophically wrong.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - Oryx and Crake
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Margaret Atwood · Science fiction
Snowman — formerly Jimmy — may be the last human being alive.
Both dig into environmental collapse.
Read the summary → - The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
Jonathan Haidt · Psychology
The Righteous Mind is Jonathan Haidt's argument that moral reasoning is not the source of our moral judgments — it's the press secretary for them.
Both dig into religion and community.
Read the summary → - 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Arthur C. Clarke · Science fiction
2001: A Space Odyssey begins with prehistoric man-apes encountering a featureless black monolith that somehow catalyzes their cognitive leap from prey to hunter.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Fire Upon the Deep
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Vernor Vinge · Science fiction
The galaxy in A Fire Upon the Deep is zoned by the speed of thought: near the galactic core, the Slowness, where intelligence itself is limited; farther out, the Unthinking Depths; and further still, the Transcend, where entities of incomprehensible intelligence emerge and occasionally intervene in the affairs of the merely civilized.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
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A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet
Becky Chambers · Science fiction
Rosemary Harper boards the Wayfarer under a false identity, hoping to escape a family history she cannot speak about.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Memory Called Empire
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Arkady Martine · Science fiction
Mahit Dzmare, ambassador from a small, semi-independent mining station to the vast Teixcalaanli Empire, arrives at the capital to find her predecessor has died under suspicious circumstances and the neural implant that was supposed to give her access to his memories and knowledge is three years out of date.
A kindred science fiction read.
Read the summary → - All Systems Red
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Martha Wells · Science fiction
Murderbot is a SecUnit — part robot, part cloned human tissue — that has hacked its own governor module and is technically free, though it has chosen not to tell anyone.
A kindred science fiction read.
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Books like The Year of the Flood: quick answers
What are the best books like The Year of the Flood?
The best books like The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood are Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Year of the Flood, such as environmental collapse, corporations and power, religion and community.
What should I read after The Year of the Flood?
A natural next read after The Year of the Flood is Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. A kindred science fiction read. Other strong choices are Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Animal Farm by George Orwell.
What books are similar to The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood?
The Year of the Flood centers on environmental collapse, corporations and power, religion and community. Books with a similar feel include Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, Beloved by Toni Morrison, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Ubik by Philip K. Dick, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
