Suggest me a page turner for my book club

Octavia Butler’s *Parable of the Sower*!

Here’s a brief Google AI synopsis:

In Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, a young woman named Lauren Olamina, living in a near-future, dystopian California ravaged by climate change and social inequality, develops a new belief system called Earthseed. After her walled community is destroyed, she embarks on a dangerous journey north with a group of survivors, sharing her vision of a future where humanity can adapt and thrive by embracing change and traveling to other planets. 

Published in the early 90’s, the story begins in July 2024. It’s quite eerie how not-so-far fetched this work of dystopian fiction reads. I haven’t read any yet, but I hear the author has a bunch of other great reads too!

### Fantasy

– Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
– The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch

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### Sci-Fi

– Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
– Recursion by Blake Crouch
– The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
– The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
– Monk and Robot Series by Becky Chambers
– Annihilation by Jeff VanderMerr

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### Short-Stories (Sci-Fi | Fantasy)

– Stories of your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
– Exhalation & other short stories by Ted Chiang

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### Dystopian

– Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
– Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
– Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood