Tag: Dystopia
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Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia
Today’s reading list features that stalwart genre of anxious times: the dystopia. I’ve tried to collect some newer and more unusual examples for this list, rather than the old standards that you see on every list. Not only are these novels prime escapist fare, but they serve as a helpful reminder that things could always…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2019 Novels
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2019. The Institute by Stephen King (2019) Solid King entertainment. True to form, once I was hooked I couldn’t put it down. King gives his characters heart in a way that so…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Red Clocks by Leni Zumas (2018) This takes place in an alternate United States (or in the near future?), when a Personhood Amendment to the Constitution has made abortion and in vitro fertilization illegal. It alternates among four women, who are…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: American War by Omar El Akkad
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. American War by Omar El Akkad (2017) There are two things that books can do that as a reader I live for: one is to create a world that I can completely inhabit in my imagination, and the other is to…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Borne by Jeff VanderMeer
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Borne by Jeff VanderMeer (2017) A fable disguised as a dystopia, set in a ruined City on an unnamed Earth, where Rachel scavenges for supplies to give her lover, Wick, who makes biotech to sell to other survivors. The City is…
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Favorite Books of the 2010s: Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters
This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Underground Airlines by Ben H. Winters (2016) I highly enjoyed and appreciated this gripping book on three levels. First, it presents a fascinating what-if scenario. In this alternate America, instead of having a civil war, the states came to a compromise…
Shannon Turlington 