Malagash by Joey Comeau

Sunday’s father is dying of cancer. They’ve come home to Malagash, on the north shore of Nova Scotia, so he can die where he grew up. Her mother and her brother are both devastated. But devastated isn’t good enough. Devastated doesn’t fix anything. Sunday has a plan. She’s started recording everything her father says. His …

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

By 2021, the World War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet any living creature, and for people who can't afford one, companies build incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cat, sheep. They've even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids so sophisticated they are indistinguishable from …

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray …

Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted is life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world'd digital confines - puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture …

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen

5/5 stars. Fiction, Historical, Audiobook. Over 10,000,000 copies in print worldwide #1 New York Times Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A Newsday Favorite Book of 2006 A USA Today Bestseller A Major Motion Picture starring Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, and Christoph Waltz Jacob Janowski's luck had run out--orphaned and …

Why Make Eagles Swim by Bill Munn

4/5 stars. Nonfiction, Personality Traits, Workplace. Stop wasting time "fixing" your so-called weaknesses. And start leveraging the powerful ways you're already innately great! Bill Munn says the key to maximizing performance is already planted within us - and within everyone around us - in the inherent strengths we often ignore while we focus on overcoming …

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

5/5 stars. Thriller, Mystery/Suspense. EVERY DAY THE SAME Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to …

The Nahx Invasions #1: Zero Repeat Forever by G. S. Prendergast

4/5 stars. Dystopian, Young Adults, Aliens. He has no voice or name, only a rank, Eighth. He doesn't know the details of the mission, only the directives that hum in his mind.  Dart the humans. Leave them where they fall. His job is to protect his Offside. Let her do the shooting.  Until a human …

5 to 1 by Holly Bodger

5/5 stars. Dystopian, Young Adult, Marriage Competition, India. In the year 2054, after decades of gender selection, India has a ratio of five boys to every girl, making women an incredibly valuable commodity. Tired of wedding their daughters to the highest bidder and determined to finally make marriage fair, the women who formed the country …

Altered Saga by Jennifer Rush

3/5 stars. Contemporary, Science Fiction, Young Adult, Genetic Alterations Anna is homeschooled and lives with her father. They live and work at a small farmhouse in the country, one that is bigger than it appears from the outside. There is a lab in the basement with four genetically altered men - Sam, the leader who …