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Book recommendations, please! (lemmy.ml)
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Hi! I'm looking for some good book recommendations! I'm looking for something like Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney. It's about 4 friends and they all date each other at different times. However, she injects a bit of political theory in to the story, about how conservative isn't sustainable because nothing can be conserved. It was a really good part of the book, I though. Any books where they inject political theory like that? Also, political fiction is welcome. I enjoyed reading these books:

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Plot Against America by Philip Roth 1984 by George Orwell Brave New World by Aldous Huxley It Happened Here by Richard Dresser

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[โ€“] GlacialTurtle@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I haven't read her myself yet, but Ursula K Le Guin is of note. Lathe of Heaven, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas and The Word for World is Forest are worth looking at.

Terry Pratchetts work is very good. Lots of humour and light parody of fantasy tropes, and some occasional commentary. You could probably pick almost anything from the Discworld series and find something enjoyable.

October By China Mieville is an account of the Russian revolution of 1917. It's not written as a perhaps more dry, academic account, but still decently researched and a good introduction that's easy to read almost as if it was fiction. Apparently his science-fiction is good too, but I have no idea.

[โ€“] ace_garp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I bought Lathe of Heaven 3 weeks ago, and Le Guin seems a very socially conscious writer.

I would recommend Catch 22 or Confederacy of Dunces, as excellent satirical takes on the farcical aspects of war or 60's US society.