Parable of the Sower

by Octavia E. Butler

Recommended in 3 interviews and reading lists

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Who recommends it

1. Damian DuffyInterview

   The comic I’ve been reading is the trade paperback collection of 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank by Matthew Rosenberg, Tyler Boss, and Thomas Mauer, and I wanted to read it because I’d heard great things about it, and very much enjoyed the other off-kilter crime comic Rosenberg wrote, We Can Never Go Home. In prose, I’m…

2. Alaya Dawn JohnsonInterview

   For someone who wants to write speculative Young Adult fiction: Feed by M.T. Anderson (see M.T. Anderson’s reading list here). A brilliant gem of a novel, perfect characterization, Aristotelian tragedy, and incisive, prescient science fictional worldbuilding. It’s a wonder. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm by Nancy Farmer…

3. Gina WohlsdorfInterview

   Oh, so many. The Outsider by Albert Camus, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, It, Pet Semetery, The Shining by Stephen King, Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler, Deliverance by James Dickey, Dark Horse by Rory Flynn, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Les Sept Solitudes de Lorsa Lopez by…

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