Hi! I’m looking for some good book recommendations! I’m looking for something like Beautiful World, Where are You by Sally Rooney. It’s about 4 friends and they all date each other at different times. However, she injects a bit of political theory in to the story, about how conservative isn’t sustainable because nothing can be conserved. It was a really good part of the book, I though. Any books where they inject political theory like that? Also, political fiction is welcome. I enjoyed reading these books:

It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis Plot Against America by Philip Roth 1984 by George Orwell Brave New World by Aldous Huxley It Happened Here by Richard Dresser

Thank you!

  • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    I just read the Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy. Fantasy setting with anarchist and trans themes. Great book couldn’t put it down and wish it was longer.

    • anon6789@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Thanks for reminding me of this! With having reached my limits with US politics, I’ve dropped all my podcasts for the last few months so I haven’t heard Margaret for a while now.

      Margaret is great on every topic she covers, but as someone who isn’t trans, I feel she’s really helped me to have a better understanding about the internal and external pressures surrounding the subject matter. I’m sorry I still can’t really verbalize any of my feelings on it, but I’d say to anyone thinking that writing about trans people is written only for trans people, I don’t find this to be the case with any of Margaret’s work. I’ve never had the physical sensation of someone unlocking parts of my mind so frequently to things it couldn’t grasp before.

      I’ve been wanting to find something to break up my power run of reading Discworld for the first time, and I think this would be a great book to do that with.

      • Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        Every Sunday It Could Happen Here and Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff feeds have Margaret reading a short story, which is great and not focused on the world burning down.