Tagged “fiction”
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books I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
A young woman is raised in an underground bunker along with 39 other female prisoners, and finds her freedom after their captors flee an unknown threat.
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books Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir (audiobook relisten)
Waking up on a space ship alone with no memories, a school teacher has to figure out who he is, how he got there, and how he's supposed to save Earth, with science. Also there's an alien. And a lot of science.
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books The Women, Kristin Hannah (book club)
A young and idealistic American nurse signs up for the Vietnam War and discovers things aren't as rosy as the reports they get back home.
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books Atmosphere, Taylor Jenkins Reid (book club)
Set in the 1980s, a cohort of astronauts in training includes some of the first women to go into space. Also there's a love story. Does it all work together? Sort-of. But not my favourite.
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books The Word for World is Forest, Ursula K. Le Guin
Humans from Earth, having stripped the planet of its natural resources, have come to colonise and cut down forests of another planet, Athshe. The native people of the planet are considered primitive and inferior, and are horribly exploited, enslaved and brutalised to the point that they're forced to abandon their peaceful nature and retaliate.