I've realized my favorite books are either historical fiction (non-ww2), sci fi that extrapolates from the world as it exists today, and genre-bending ones that combine aspects of history and sci fi by jumping around in time. Any books you'd recommend? Thanks in advance!
Favorite historical fiction:
– Barkskins by Annie Proulx
– Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
– The Moor's Account by Layla Lailami
– Deep River by Karl Marlantes
Favorite Sci Fi:
– New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson (I've read basically all of his stuff, but this is my favorite)
– Red rising series by Pierce Brown
– The Dispossessed by Ursula le Guin
– Spin by Robert Charles Wilson
– Bobiverse series by Dennis Taylor
– Tower of Babel series by Josiah Bancroft (a stretch for "our world", but you can tell it's set on an alternate version of Earth with similar geopolitics)
Combos of both:
– Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
– Gnomon by Nick Harkaway
– The Actual Star by Monica Byrne
by adanowski95
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Hild, Nicola Griffith? Based on a real person, a nun. Not about the nun stuff though, hence fiction. her life before she became one. The facts: She really did advise kings. Set in 7th Century Britian.
2 books in series although you don’t need to read both. Book 2 is later on and much darker.