Cloud Atlas appears in 9 book lists

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Cloud Atlas appears in 9 book lists on Shepherd.

The best sci-fi and speculative books with multiple timelines

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The best books I wish I never read so that I can read them again for the first time

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The best fantasy books to defy the genre

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The best books about weirdly hopeful dystopias (dys-hopias?)

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The best literary speculative fiction: science fiction, folklore, and fantasy

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The best books that make you question everything

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The best high-brow books that’ll change your mind about science fiction

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The best connected, interleaved, or overlayered story fiction (also known as a palimpsest)

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