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- Books to Read After Watching Stranger ThingsReading list
“Fans of Stranger Things, get ready to experience a different kind of supernatural power in The Power by Naomi Alderman. Praised as “our era’s Handmaid’s Tale,” this best-seller explores a world where only women possess a new and fierce power.
- The Best Dystopian BooksReading list
The Power is a science fiction novel by Naomi Alderman. It is set in a dystopian future in which teenage girls have developed an immense physical power that allows them to cause agonising pain and even death. The story follows the rise of a group of women who use their new powers to overthrow the men who have…
- Helen RussellInterview
The Power by Naomi Alderman, The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett, Elena Ferrante’s Neopolitan Novels have all stayed with me long after I read them in the past year.
- Harry BakerInterview
I’ve just started The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney which my fiancé Grace gave to me and said was one of her favourites. She’s brought so many brilliant books into my life I’ve learnt to trust her recommendations without asking too many questions. I’ve also just finished The Power by Naomi Alderman which was a…
- Nikesh ShuklaInterview
Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen, probably. It helped me with my grief. If not that, then Nasty Women edited by 404 Ink, The Power by Naomi Alderman, Between The World And Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, A Country Of Refuge by Lucy Popescu. Or even The Good Immigrant.
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