Lagoon
Nnedi Okorafor presents an alien first contact story in Lagos, Nigeria, where the arrival of extraterrestrials profoundly impacts three disparate individuals and reshapes humanity's future in a vibrant and disquieting narrative, available in audiobook format.
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Dhalgren
Samuel R. Delany's experimental and challenging novel plunges a young man known only as The Kid into the enigmatic, semi-abandoned city of Bellona, where reality seems to have fractured and strange events unfold, and it is available as an audiobook.
novel · sci-fi · unsettling · classic · audiobook
Brown Girl in the Ring
Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel envisions a dystopian Toronto where the privileged have abandoned the inner city, leaving its inhabitants to reclaim forgotten traditions and confront ancient spirits amidst desperate circumstances, available to listen to as an audiobook.
novel · sci-fi · unsettling · classic · audiobook
Who Fears Death
Nnedi Okorafor's World Fantasy Award-winning novel is set in a post-apocalyptic Africa where a young woman with a unique destiny must grapple with genocide, magic, and her own identity in a world both fantastical and harsh, and it is available as an audiobook.
novel · sci-fi · unsettling · classic · audiobook
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler's seminal novel transports a young Black woman from 1976 California back to a pre-Civil War Maryland plantation, forcing her to confront the brutal realities of slavery and her own ancestral past in a deeply unsettling and vital story, available as an audiobook from various retailers.
novel · sci-fi · unsettling · classic · audiobook
Bodies
Klára Vlasáková's novel gives voice to older women finding themselves on the margins of Czech society, examining contemporary issues with a strong and critical perspective.
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Memory Burn
Marek Torčík's debut novel explores queer identity and the challenges of growing up in a dysfunctional family within a small, forgotten Moravian town in the Czech Republic.
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Goodbye to Budapest: A Novel of the Hungarian Uprising
Margarita Morris crafts a suspenseful narrative about a young woman in 1950s Budapest who must fight for freedom and survival when her father is arrested by the Secret Police and the Hungarian Uprising ignites.
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The Dispossessed: A Novel
Szilárd Borbély offers a haunting portrayal of a partially Jewish family struggling with poverty and ostracism in a Hungarian village during the late 1960s and early 1970s, as seen through the eyes of a young boy.
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The Empusium
Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk invites listeners to a sanatorium in a remote Polish mountain village in 1913, where a new arrival discovers the unsettling truths and hidden horrors beneath its seemingly idyllic surface.
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