2295 Results in the "Fiction" category


    • Never Let Me Go Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In Nev­er Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishig­uro weaves a haunt­ing and intro­spec­tive tale set in an alter­nate-real­i­ty ​1990s Eng­land, where ​Kathy H.​, a ​car­er, reflects on her child­hood at ​Hail­sham, an idyl­lic yet unset­tling board­ing school. As Kathy reunites with her for­mer class­mates ​Ruth​ and ​Tom­my, she con­fronts the dark truth about their exis­tence: they are ​clones, cre­at­ed sole­ly to pro­vide ​organ dona­tions​ for “nor­mal”…
    • The Chrysalids Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Chrysalids, John Wyn­d­ham crafts a chill­ing post-apoc­a­lyp­tic world where ​genet­ic puri­ty​ is enforced with reli­gious fer­vor. Set in ​Waknuk, a farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty in a radi­a­tion-scarred future, the sto­ry fol­lows ​David Strorm, a boy who hides a dan­ger­ous secret: he pos­sess­es ​tele­path­ic abil­i­ties—a muta­tion pun­ish­able by exile or death in his rigid soci­ety. When David befriends ​Sophie, a girl with an extra toe, and…
    • The Giver of Stars Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin Set in the rugged moun­tains of ​1930s Ken­tucky, The Giv­er of Stars fol­lows ​Alice Wright, a spir­it­ed Eng­lish­woman who escapes her sti­fling mar­riage by join­ing the ​Pack­horse Library Project—a WPA ini­tia­tive that deliv­ers books to remote Appalachi­an com­mu­ni­ties. Along­side a group of extra­or­di­nary women, includ­ing the fear­less ​Margery O’Hare, Alice braves harsh ter­rain, soci­etal prej­u­dice, and per­son­al demons to bring lit­er­a­cy and hope to the iso­lat­ed…
    • The Children of Men Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Chil­dren of Men, P.D. James crafts a haunt­ing dystopi­an vision set in ​2021, where human­i­ty faces extinc­tion after decades of glob­al infer­til­i­ty. The last gen­er­a­tion born, the ​Omegas, are now adults, and soci­ety has descend­ed into despair under the author­i­tar­i­an rule of ​The War­den of Eng­land, Xan Lyp­pi­att. Theo Faron, a dis­il­lu­sioned Oxford pro­fes­sor and cousin to the War­den, is drawn into a…
      Dystopian • Fiction • Thriller
    • The Hunger Games Cover
      by testsuphomeAdmin In The Hunger Games, ​Kat­niss Everdeen, a 16-year-old girl from the impov­er­ished ​Dis­trict 12, vol­un­teers to take her younger sister’s place in the ​annu­al Hunger Games—a tele­vised fight to the death between 24 chil­dren, orches­trat­ed by the tyran­ni­cal ​Capi­tol​ to sup­press rebel­lion in ​Panem, the dystopi­an remains of North Amer­i­ca. Thrust into the ​are­na​ with fel­low trib­ute ​Pee­ta Mel­lark, Kat­niss must use her ​hunt­ing skills,…
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