Parable of the Sower appears in 21 book lists

By Octavia E. Butler,

Parable of the Sower appears in 21 book lists on Shepherd.

My favorite books about digging out when life just buries you

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My favorite 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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My favorite books for writing a “realistic” zombie apocalypse

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

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My favorite 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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My favorite books for the facing climate crisis without losing your shit

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My favorite books with creation myths at the end of the world

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My favorite 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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My favorite books on urgent menaces to the human species

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My favorite 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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My favorite books that engage with pandemics, past, present, and imagined

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The best fictional books about our place in nature

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My favorite books about environmental catastrophe

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The best novels that integrate science in accurate, or at least plausible, and creative ways

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The best novels that wonder about the future

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