Stand on Zanzibar
Stand on Zanzibar has spent more than five decades being handed around as the science fiction novel that got the future right, and the list of…
Retailers that deliver to: USThe Drowned World
The Drowned World is a strange book to recommend, because the things that make it remarkable in 2026 are not quite the things Ballard seems to have…
The Death of Grass
Post-war British science fiction sometimes asks, very politely, what it would take to crack the national character. John Wyndham's triffids…
Player Piano
Kurt Vonnegut's debut, published in 1952, is the book his later admirers tend to skip on the way to Slaughterhouse-Five or Cat's Cradle,…
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin's "We" arrives with a peculiar reputation: the dystopia that begat the dystopias, the book Orwell read in French…
The Machine Stops
It is hard to read "The Machine Stops" today without doing a double-take at the publication date. E.M. Forster wrote this novella in…
The Iron Heel
Jack London's "The Iron Heel" is the kind of novel you find yourself recommending with a long list of caveats. Published in 1908, it…
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is Arundhati Roy's first novel since The God of Small Things won the Booker in 1997, and during those two…
Beatrice and Virgil
When a writer wins the Booker Prize and sells millions of copies, the follow-up is rarely judged on its own terms. Beatrice and Virgil arrived in…
Thirteen Moons
Charles Frazier's second novel arrived nearly a decade after Cold Mountain swept the National Book Award and sold by the truckload, and it…
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Oskar Schell is nine years old, fiercely intelligent, anxious, grieving, and almost unbearably alive on the page. His father died in the World…
The Autograph Man
White Teeth made Zadie Smith, at twenty-five, the most talked-about debut novelist of her generation, and The Autograph Man was always going to be…
