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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

Thank you!

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[โ€“] 1 point 9 months ago

If you liked Brave New World and 1984, try We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. First published in 1924, it predates Brave New World by several years. Written by a Russian naval architect who had become disillusioned with the Soviet government, it's fairly grim and somewhat bizarre, but very interesting nontheless.

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