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1

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

61,270 members

865 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: permanentorbit: dystopian

2

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

49,132 members

774 reviews

4.1

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Explanations: permanentorbit: anti-war, post modern, dark comedy

3

by William Gibson

25,905 members

417 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: permanentorbit: & cyberpunk

4

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

22,098 members

530 reviews

4

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Explanations: permanentorbit: dystopian, noir

5

The War of the Worlds

21,413 members

357 reviews

½ 3.7

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6

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

18,556 members

437 reviews

4.1

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7

Stranger in a Strange Land

by Robert A. Heinlein

12,081 members

181 reviews

3.8

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8

The Illustrated Man

by Ray Bradbury

10,113 members

175 reviews

4

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9

Roadside Picnic

by Arkady Strugatsky

4,685 members

162 reviews

4

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Explanations: permanentorbit: post-apocalyptic

10

by Mikhail Bulgakov

3,740 members

77 reviews

3.9

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Explanations: permanentorbit: dystopian

11

by Dmitry Glukhovsky

2,600 members

67 reviews

½ 3.7

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Explanations: permanentorbit: post-apocalyptic

12

The Man Who Fell to Earth

by Walter Tevis

1,893 members

56 reviews

3.8

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13

The Soft Machine

by William S. Burroughs

1,701 members

20 reviews

½ 3.4

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14

Snowpiercer, Volume 1: The Escape

401 members

21 reviews

3.2

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Explanations: permanentorbit: dystopian

15

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb

by Peter George

332 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

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Explanations: permanentorbit: cold war

16

Japan Sinks: A Novel about Earthquakes

by Sakyo Komatsu

156 members

8 reviews

3.2

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Explanations: permanentorbit: disaster novel, post-apocalyptic

17

by Arthur Herzog

87 members

3 reviews

½ 3.5

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Started: permanentorbit
June 2024
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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