At its core, All the Birds in the Sky is a love story, but not just in the traditional romantic sense. It’s a love story between two people, a love letter to the city of San Francisco, a love letter to nature, even a love letter to technology. The characters explore existential questions about whether we have a bigger duty to our fellow humans or to the earth we live on. This is one of my favorite books, and I hope you enjoy it too!

Leave the World Behind takes the dystopian genre to a new and pragmatic level. While many apocalypse stories focus on drama, action, and survival, this novel takes a more realistic approach. What would you really be doing if the end of the world was imminent? Most likely, you’d be hunkering down in your house, stocking up on canned goods, and wondering what the hell was going on, just like our protagonists do in this novel.

The Year of the Flood is an essential follow up to Oryx and Crake. Margaret Atwood tells the same story so skillfully from entirely different perspectives, asking us, as readers, to reflect on critical themes like class, religion, and the role humans should play in engineering their world.

There’s nothing I love more than a book by a woman about a woman, so Circe certainly fits the bill. In this book, Circe, a goddess and sorceress who appears briefly in The Odyssey, finally gets her moment in the spotlight.