#Philosophical

sci-fi fiction

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The Giver

by Lois Lowry

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In a seemingly perfect society without pain, suffering, or choice, twelve-year-old Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory. As he receives memories of the past from the elderly Giver, Jonas discovers the dark truth behind his community's utopia.

young-adult sci-fi

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

In Huxley's chilling vision of the future, humans are genetically engineered and socially conditioned to serve a seemingly benevolent totalitarian state. Bernard Marx begins to question his conditioning and the price of a world where everyone is happy — but no one is truly free.

sci-fi fiction

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Raskolnikov, a destitute former student in St. Petersburg, commits a brutal murder and then grapples with crushing guilt and paranoia. A profound psychological exploration of morality, redemption, and the consequences of believing oneself above the law.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

In a post-apocalyptic San Francisco, bounty hunter Rick Deckard is tasked with "retiring" six escaped androids that are virtually indistinguishable from humans. As he hunts them down, the line between human and machine — and what it means to be alive — grows increasingly blurred.

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, creates a sentient creature from reanimated dead tissue — then abandons it in horror. The creature, intelligent and tormented, seeks revenge on its creator. Often called the first science fiction novel, it probes the ethics of creation, responsibility, and what it means to be human.

Klara and the Sun

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara is an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities who, from her place in the store, watches the behavior of those who come to browse and the passersby outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro crafts a haunting meditation on love, consciousness, and what it means to be human.

The Dispossessed

by Ursula K. Le Guin

Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the anarchist moon of Anarres, travels to its sister planet Urras in hopes of sharing his revolutionary theory. But both worlds have walls — some visible, some not — and Shevek must confront the true cost of freedom and the meaning of home.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

The beautiful young Dorian Gray has his portrait painted and wishes that the painting would age instead of him. His wish is granted, and as Dorian pursues a life of hedonism and cruelty, the portrait grows hideous while he remains eternally youthful. Wilde's only novel is a dazzling exploration of vanity, corruption, and art.