I don’t really care for romance in a book. I like books where the government is critiqued, there is a societal breakdown, or maybe society is run in a different way in the future, but no YA please. I LOVE science fiction and have read all of James S.A. Corey and a lot of Tchaikovsky’s work, along with Becky Chambers. I have read:
– Both Parable books
– Rocannon’s world, left hand of darkness, the word for world is forest, and the dispossessed by Ursula k le guin
-The broken earth trilogy by N K. jemisin
-Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
-Hugh Howey’s Silo series
-Foundation series, I II and III
by sophiemanic
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The Telling
Five Ways to Forgiveness
Ann Leckie: Ancillary Justice and the other Imperial Radch books
Ursula Le Guin: the Lathe of Heaven
Doris Lessing: the Making of the Representative for Planet 8
Clifford D Simak: City
Derek B Miller: Radio Life
John Wyndham: the Day of the Triffids, the Chrysalids
Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
oh this is very much my shit
The Space Between World by Micaiah Johnson
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife by Meg Elison
Feed by Mira Grant
All Systems Red by Martha Wells
they’re all the first book in a series
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Road
The Stand
Fahrenheit 451
The Handmaid’s Tale
1984
Severance by Ling Ma
I think you might like The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin
I Who Have Never Known Men
The Three Body/Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy
Jo Walton’s Thessaly trilogy
Devolution by Max Brooks is good
I haven’t read it yet (tbe just keeps growing) but maybe Arkady Martine’s A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace might fit your government critique request.
The Road and Altered Carbon
Or therapy
You might like Semiosis by Sue Burke.
The story spans multiple generations of colonists on a new planet, and each generation has their own criticisms of the way things are run. The original colonists had left Earth because they were dissatisfied with how violent Earth’s governments were and thought they could do better.