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8 Fast-Paced Thrillers to Tear Through

We can't promise you'll be able to put down these eight fast-paced thrillers long enough to conduct your grown-up business, but reading is the better choice anyway.

Craving BLACK MIRROR? Then You Need These Books In Your Life

Are you craving prescient speculative fiction, and dystopian tales about the future of our digital age and social media? Try these BLACK MIRROR readalikes.

Environmental Fiction: A Reading List to Save the World

Based on a talk from Jeff VanderMeer and Amy Green, a discussion on how to save the environment and the environmental fiction books to help along the way.

Is Dystopian Fiction Failing Our Globalised World?

On Naomi Alderman's THE POWER and dystopian fiction's seemingly exclusive focus on straight, white people.

#SpicerFacts and Orwell’s 1984

With a Trump presidency in progress, it's starting to feel positively Orwellian.

Reading The Handmaid’s Tale in the Year of Trump

The frightening prescience of Atwood's HANDMAID'S TALE in the rhetoric of Donald Trump.

Bug Out Books: The Tomes I’d Save in the Event of the Apocalypse

What would you save from your personal library?

The Best Stephen King Book You Haven’t Read

This horror hungry Rioter explains why your new favourite King story should be a '70s masterpiece about a gruelling hike.

A MIME ORDER Inspired Tour of London

Take a tour of the London-set places in MIME ORDER by Samantha Shannon

Books and Children First: Bookish Apocalypse Movies

A reader finds bookish connections in a guilty pleasure: disaster films. A look at the way books are mythologized in stories of the world's end.