Are you intimidated by a "science fiction" spine label? Don't be! Check out these novels that are so good, you won't even realize you're reading sci fi!
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood: A look at the near future presents the tale of Offred, a handmaid in Gilead, once the United States, an oppressive world where women are no longer allowed to read and are valuable only as long as they are viable for reproduction.
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut: Billy Pilgrim returns home from the Second World War only to be kidnapped by aliens who teach him that time is an eternal present.
- The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon: In a world in which Alaska, rather than Israel, has become the homeland for Jews following World War II, Detective Meyer Landsman, and his half Tlingit partner, Berko, investigate the death of a heroin addicted chess prodigy.
- Fledgling by Octavia Butler: A young girl suffering from amnesia awakens to find she is actually a middle aged vampire.
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