mimi10v3Recent fiction with porous borders: literary realism beside climate futures, systems novels, dream logic, and formally strange work. The strongest books here make technological and ecological change feel intimate rather than merely topical.
The recorded ratings average 7.1/10, with 3 perfect tens. Recurring authors include Neal Stephenson, Haruki Murakami, William Gibson. The strongest-rated pockets are Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Short Stories.
A place to begin
Highest rated.
Seiobo There Below
Mimi’s noteOne of my favorite books, one of a kind, just read it.
9/10Contemporary Literature : Short StoriesExhalation
Mimi’s noteI originally read this on Kindle, but then found a signed limited edition copy in my local Little Free Library so it is on my bookshelf as well :) best find to date
9/10Contemporary Literature : Science FictionMidnight's Simulacra
Mimi’s noteMidnight's Simulacra is written by a Twitter friend @nickblack but is also just a great read with fascinating nerdy digressions and an edgy sense of humor. TW: *lots* of drug content a…
8/10Contemporary Literature : Science FictionThe Book of Strange New Things: A Novel
Mimi’s noteI read this book after seeing the Amazon Pilot for a tv series based on it. I'm sad the series wasn't made, I thought the first episode was great - interesting characters, well shot, g…
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Shelves.
Literary Fiction
→17 books · 7.6 avg
Contemporary novels of ecology, perception, art, and social systems. Kingsolver, Krasznahorkai, Gibson, and Boyle span a taste for exact environments and minds caught in patterns larger than themselves.
Short Stories
→12 books · 7.2 avg
High-density contemporary fiction, especially Murakami and Ted Chiang, where an ordinary premise can quietly open into metaphysics, technology, loneliness, or another culture's imaginative weather.
Science Fiction
→32 books · 7.0 avg
Near and far futures dense with infrastructure: climate, networks, posthuman intelligence, orbital mechanics, language, and political economy. The best turn systems speculation into an atmosphere one must live inside.
Fantasy
→8 books · 7.3 avg
Murakami's dream corridors and adjacent fables: libraries, parallel worlds, missing persons, and mythic interruptions that make emotional realities spatial.
Historical Fiction
→11 books · 6.4 avg
Recent novels using the past to disturb inherited memory. Migration, war, race, kinship, and documentary gaps produce histories that remain unsettled rather than safely concluded.
Experimental
→4 books · — avg
Recent novels that reorganize time, voice, and documentary form. The shelf is small because these books ask for unusual commitment and resist quick classification by design.
Grouped reading
Series.
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| 1Q84 | Haruki Murakami | 2009 | 9 | Read | → |
| 2312 | Kim Stanley Robinson | 2012 | — | Unread | → |
| A Mercy | Toni Morrison | 2008 | 4 | Read | → |
| A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East | László Krasznahorkai | 2003 | — | Unread | → |
| A Painted House | John Grisham | 2001 | 7.5 | Read | → |
| Accelerando | Charles Stross | 2005 | 7.5 | Read | → |
| Agency | William Gibson | 2020 | 7 | Read | → |
| Anathem | Neal Stephenson | 2008 | 8 | Read | → |
| Austerlitz | W. G. Sebald | 2001 | — | Unread | → |
| Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman | Haruki Murakami | 2006 | 10 | Read | → |
| Blindsight | Peter Watts | 2006 | 8 | Read | → |
| Book of Numbers | Joshua Cohen | 2015 | 8 | Read | → |
| Cloud Atlas | David Mitchell | 2004 | — | Read | → |
| Cloud Cuckoo Land | Anthony Doerr | 2021 | — | In catalog | → |
| Exhalation | Ted Chiang | 2019 | 9 | Read | → |
| Fall; or, Dodge in Hell | Neal Stephenson | 2019 | 3 | Read | → |
| First Person Singular | Haruki Murakami | 2020 | 6 | Read | → |
| Flight Behavior | Barbara Kingsolver | 2012 | 8 | Read | → |
| Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Eliezer Yudkowsky | 2015 | — | Read | → |
| How to Set a Fire and Why | Jesse Ball | 2016 | — | Unread | → |
| Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell | Susanna Clarke | — | — | Read | → |
| Kafka on the Shore | Haruki Murakami | 2002 | 8 | Read | → |
| Killing Commendatore | Haruki Murakami | 2017 | — | Unread | → |
| Life of Pi | Yann Martel | 2000 | — | Read | → |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | 2017 | — | Unread | → |