5 books
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
It’s near-future America, where the prison system got turned into a televised blood sport. Sign up for the program and you fight other prisoners to the death on live TV; if you survive three years, you walk free. Almost nobody…
Gary Shteyngart
A near-future America where everyone wears an äppärät around their neck broadcasting their credit rating and screwability to everyone in the room, the dollar is pegged to the yuan, and the country is being run into default by a party…
Rae Giana Rashad
Set in an America where a second civil war broke out in 1954 and the wrong side won. By 2030, a white-run government called the Order classifies Black people as Descendants of Slavery and an algorithm hands out your job,…
Naomi Alderman
Three tech billionaires have bunkers, and their prediction models are telling them when to run. Around them, a handful of people who know the systems from the inside — a survivalist forum obsessive, a daughter, a lover, an ex-employee —…
Margaret Atwood
It’s thirty-odd years after The Handmaid’s Tale, told by three women. Aunt Lydia, the most senior of the Aunts, who runs Ardua Hall and has spent years quietly compiling files on everybody who matters. Agnes, raised inside as a commander’s…
