Short things by Naomi Kritzer:
Better Living Through Algorithms – just won Best Short Story Hugo Award
The Year Without Sunshine – just won Best Novelette Hugo Award
Recent books:
The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older, and the sequel, The Imposition of Unnecessary Obstacles
The Infomacracy series by Malka Older.
Life Beyond Us – an anthology that combines speculative short stories with essays by actual science. For example, Mary Robinette Kowal’s short story on Mars is followed by an essay discussing where actual science is now.
Death Comes At The End by Agatha Christie. (Yes, I’m still thwacking at Christie.) Overall it works as a historical mystery, and it’s based on an actual letter (tablet) send by an Egyptian to his family.
They All Fall Down by Rachel Howzell Hall is very openly an updated version of And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. The characters, humor and setting are more contemporary and relatable. That said, like the original (and unlike most dramatic adaptations) They All Fall Down pulls no punches.
The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, Son by Lois Lowery. I blame Ali Velshi’s book club for these, with a bit of the many times I’ve re-read Lowery’s A Summer To Die, which came out when I was in middle school. The 4 together show how different communities have organized, from the original community of The Giver (which has fish farms, reproductive tech, drugs, eugenics, suppression of emotions, etc) to other communities with lower levels of tech. I see why The Giver won a Newberry Award.
No, You Shut Up by Symone D Sanders. A memoir centered on her work in politics and pushing for change.
I think I will stop here, but also I post book quotes and other fannish stuff on Tumblr
Living ~400lbs 