Parable of the Sower appears in 26 book lists

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Parable of the Sower appears in 26 book lists on Shepherd.

The best books to reimagine the past and see your way to a strange new future

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The best books by women imagining dark, dystopian futures

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The best books about the stories we tell at the end of the world

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The best books that help us make sense of the future

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The best books about a second American Civil War

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The best books about digging out when life just buries you

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The best books on bleak urban futures that yet give you a sense of hope (even if slim)

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The best novels seeking hope after the end of the world

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The best books for writing a “realistic” zombie apocalypse

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The best books with hope about people who show moral courage in the face of traumatic or painful life circumstances

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The best books that keep us turning pages and thinking about the kind of world we're leaving to future generations

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The best novels on saving mankind from itself using elements of fantasy, from dreams to artificial intelligence

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The best books for the facing climate crisis without losing your shit

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The best books with creation myths at the end of the world

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The best books about young women saving their own lives

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The best mind-bending science fiction books by Black authors

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The best books on urgent menaces to the human species

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The best books that make our pandemic look mild

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The best novels about the politics of climate change

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The best novels on those good old apocalypse days

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