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The Fat Years

Chan Koonchung

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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess · 188 pages

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Na

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The Running Man

Stephen King · 256 pages

The runaway bestseller about the ultimate reality showThe year is 2025. The Running Man is America's favorite television game show. Ben Richards is the program's latest contestant-and the Hunters' latest target in a rigged game of death…

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The Trial

Franz Kafka · 256 pages

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1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

George Orwell · 231 pages

In a grim future where the world is divided into perpetual war and total surveillance, Winston Smith dares to question the absolute power of the Party. In Oceania, even thoughts are monitored, history is rewritten, and truth is whatever Big Brother says it is. Longing for freedom and truth, Winston begins a quiet rebellion—but in a society where independent thought is a crime, even love becomes da

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The Orphan Master's Son

Adam Johnson · 456 pages

An epic novel and a thrilling literary discovery, The Orphan Master’s Son follows a young man’s journey through the icy waters, dark tunnels, and eerie spy chambers of the world’s most mysterious dictatorship, North Korea. Pak Jun Do is the haunted son of a lost mother—a singer “stolen” to Pyongyang—and an influential father who runs Long Tomorrows, a work camp for orphans. There the boy is giv

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The Power

Naomi Alderman · 386 pages

'She throws her head back and pushes her chest forward and lets go a huge blast right into the centre of his body. The rivulets and streams of red scarring run across his chest and up around his throat. She'd put her hand on his heart and stopped him dead.' Suddenly tomorrow or the day after girls find that with a flick of their fingers, they can inflict agonizing pain and even death. With this si

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Bend Sinister

Vladimir Nabokov · 217 pages

Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.65702dc.contributor.author: Nabokov Vladimirdc.date.accessioned: 2015-06-29T23:30:58Zdc.date.available: 2015-06-29T23:30:58Zdc.date.copyrightexpirydate: 0000-00-00dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 2010-10-00dc.date.citation: 1947dc.identifier.barcode: 99999990278106dc.identifier.origpath: /data6/upload/0130/908dc.identifier.copyno: 1dc.identifier.uri:

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1984 : George Orwell

George GEORGE ORWELL · 310 pages

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime.

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The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · 352 pages

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Brave New Worlds

Cory Doctorow, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. Rickert, Kate Wilhelm, Geoff Ryman, Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, J.G. Ballard, Carrie Vaughn, James K. Morrow, Alex Irvine, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Genevieve Valentine, Sarah Langan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Matt Williamson, P · 489 pages

Collects short stories on civilization invading and dictating citizens lives, from authors including Shirley Jackson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Geoff Rymann.

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera · 237 pages

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Czech: Kniha smíchu a zapomnění) is a novel by Milan Kundera, published in France in 1979. It is composed of seven separate narratives united by some common themes. The book considers the nature of forgetting as it occurs in history, politics and life in general. The stories also contain elements found in the genre of magic realism. - Wikipedia

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Sunrise on the Reaping (svensk utgåva)

Suzanne Collins · 340 pages

Den fantastiska femte boken i Hunger Games-serien är här! När solen går upp på slåtterdagen för 50-årsjubileet av Hungerspelen sprider sig oron och skräcken i distrikten. För att fira jubileet kommer fyra ungdomar istället för två i varje distrikt skickas till arenan för att strida på liv och död. I distrikt 12 gör sig Haymitch Abernathy redo för att gå till torget och ceremonin. Han försöker att

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Super Sad True Love Story

Gary Shteyngart · 334 pages

A dark tale of America's dysfunctional coming years, and of the timeless and tender feelings that just might bring us back from the brink. "In the near future, America is crushed by a financial crisis and our patient Chinese creditors may just be ready to foreclose on the whole mess. Then Lenny Abramov, son of a Russian immigrant janitor and ardent fan of 'printed, bound media artifacts' (aka boo

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Feed

M.T. Anderson · 309 pages

For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon—a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage g

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Christian Nation

Frederic C. Rich · 347 pages

"They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do." So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America's Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a "Christian Nation" and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies an

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Inside Out

Maria V. Snyder

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Vox

Christina Dalcher · 336 pages

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The Palace of Dreams

Ismail Kadare · 198 pages

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus meticulously laid bare and at the mercy of its government... The Palace of Dreams i

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Wool

Hugh Howey · 536 pages

They live beneath the earth in a prison of their own making. There is a view of the outside world, a spoiled and rotten world, their forefathers left behind. But this view fades over time, ruined by the toxic airs that kill any who brave them. So they leave it to the criminals, those who break the rules, and who are sent to cleaning. Why do they do it, these people condemned to death? Sheriff H

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It Can't Happen Here

Sinclair Lewis · 376 pages

It Can't Happen Here is a semi-satirical American political novel published in 1935. It's Plot centers around newspaperman Doremus Jessup's struggle against the fascist regime of America' new president, Berzelius "Buzz" Windrip. Windripis elected on a platform promising to restore prosperity and $5,000 a year for all citizens. Once in office, however, he becomes a dictator, among other things,

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Blind Faith

Ben Elton · 366 pages

A dark, savagely comic novel from the bestselling author of Chart Throb...Imagine a world where everyone knows everything about everybody. Where 'sharing' is valued above all, and privacy is considered a dangerous perversion.Trafford wouldn't call himself a rebel, but he's daring to be different, to stand out from the crowd. In his own small ways, he wants to push against the system. But in this w

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Prisoners of Power

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky · 287 pages

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Shades of Grey

Jasper Fforde · 400 pages

An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and creator of Thursday Next, Jasper Fforde. As long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. From the underground feedpipes that keep the municipal park green to the healing hues viewed to cure illness to a social hierarchy based upon one's limited color perception, society is dominated by color

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