Britt's Staff Picks


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Book cover for "Tender is the flesh"
Star rating for Tender is the flesh
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
A ... "novel about a dystopian world in which animals have been wiped out, humans are being harvested for food, and society has been divided into those who eat and those who are eaten"--
Book cover for "Red Rising"
Star rating for Red Rising
Series:
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
A tale set in a bleak future society torn by class divisions follows the experiences of secret revolutionary Darrow, who after witnessing his wife's execution by an oppressive government joins a revolutionary cell and attempts to infiltrate an elite military academy.
Book cover for "The electric state"
Star rating for The electric state
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
"In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her small yellow toy robot travel west through a strange American landscape where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, along with the discarded trash of a high-tech consumerist society addicted to a virtual-reality system. As they approach the edge of the continent, the world outside the car window seems to unravel at an ever-faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core...
Book cover for "Riot baby"
Star rating for Riot baby
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
"James Rooted in foundational loss and the hope that can live in anger, Riot Baby is both a global dystopian narrative and an intimate family story with quietly devastating things to say about love, fury, and the black American experience. Ella and Kev are brother and sister, both gifted with extraordinary power. Their childhoods are defined and destroyed by structural racism and brutality. Their futures might alter the world. When Kev is incarcerated...