Science fiction · Similar reads
Books like The Year of the Flood
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 6 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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