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Gary Shteyngart
Fascinating look at the first year of the Donald Trump administration.
View Gary Shteyngart's Top 10 Favorite BooksNathan Englander
As for dystopian, I’m not putting this on the list because we live in a time when those wielding power say things like, “Truth isn’t truth.” (Fun fact: it is!) I’m adding it because, when I was too young to grasp its cautionary aspects, this book showed me what a novel could do.
View Nathan Englander's Top 10 Favorite BooksTracey Thorn
Honestly, I could choose anything by Orwell. I read him as a teen and loved him. That advice of his about good prose being like a window pane? I always have that in the back of my mind. It jibes with how I instinctively feel about writing.
View Tracey Thorn's Top 10 Favorite BooksKenny Scharf
I read this book along with Animal Farm as a teenager and they made a profound impact on me and the way I view government and propaganda in general. The futuristic dystopian visions that these books portray are unfortunately eerily similar to what we’re experiencing right now with the Trump administration in all its flagrant manipulations and “alternative facts.”
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