Here are 5 books to read after "The Dream Hotel" according to author Laila Lalami, and other books similar to this dystopia.

See Michigan readers' most-circulated books via MeLCat in 2025 as federal budget cuts threaten to cut back library services.

The brisk sales of Octavia Butler’s ninth novel, “The Parable of the Sower” is especially notable since Butler, who died in 2006, was born in Pasadena. A middle school there bears her name.

In 1993, sci-fi writer Octavia Butler published her groundbreaking dystopian novel Parable of the Sower, which is set in the year 2025 in a Los Angeles suburb that is plagued by gun violence, ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. The importance of Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower continues to crystalize, as Butler’s prescient imagining of urban ...