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first sci-fi books for people who think they dislike sci-fi
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- 01Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
- 02Kindred - Octavia E. Butler
- 03Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
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Dua Lipa's Service95 book club, every 2025 pick
her monthly picks, published on Service95 all through the year. not a cheerful list, most of these are heavy
01
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead - Olga Tokarczuk
the one that kicked the year off. dark and very funny at the same time, did not expect that combo
02
The Bee Sting - Paul Murray
03
There There - Tommy Orange
been meaning to read this since it blew up in 2018, finally had a reason to
04
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers - Max Porter
05
Still Born - Guadalupe Nettel
short, translated from spanish, sat with me for days after
06
Widow Basquiat - Jennifer Clement
07
Small Boat - Vincent Delecroix
barely 100 pages, based on the migrant boat trial in france. brutal in a quiet way
08
This House of Grief - Helen Garner
09
The Trees - Percival Everett
same guy who wrote Erasure, the book American Fiction was based on. sharp and uncomfortable on purpose
10
Flesh - David Szalay
won the booker prize this year, picked before that happened
11
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
the one pick that isn't new. been out since 1985, guessing it's a reread for her
12
Brightly Shining - Ingvild H. Rishøi
newest translation from norwegian, out this year