A Wrinkle in Time
★☆☆☆☆
Not entirely sure which genre to slot this book into, but that's OK, since it would be embarrassing for that genre to count this book in its ilk.
The Handmaid's Tale
★★★☆☆
The Handmaid's Tale is an incredibly well-written dystopian tome, presented as a diary of "Handmaid", living in an extremely misogynistic, horrifying world.
The Sparrow
★★☆☆☆
For the greater glory of God, but does that apply when dealing with alien creatures with even more alien cultures?
The Forever War
★★★★★
Caught in an war he doesn't want to be in, and completely disconnected from the very world he is fighting for, Mandella's war goes on... forever!
The Water Knife
★★★★☆
Paolo's second ecological dystopian (cli-fi?) novel sets the action in the arid American south west, where water is the most precious commodity.
Project Hail Mary
★★★★★
This book is half science experiments, half wacky buddy comedy — and it just works so well! That nerdy glee I felt on every page of The Martian is back full force.
The Maze Runner
★☆☆☆☆
Another young-adult dystopian science fiction, in the mould of The Hunger Games
The Broken Earth Trilogy
★★★★★
A series so well written, that each book in the trilogy won a Hugo award. The final book also won the Nebula award.
The Windup Girl
★★★★★
A probable near-future scenario with rampant climate change and biological warfare.
