Books like A sense of wonder by John Wyndham

Aldous Huxley's 1932 masterpiece presents a dystopian future shaped by genetic engineering, conditioned society, and an oppressive, consumerist regime, raising urgent questions about ethics, control, and the loss of individuality.

A dystopian novel about a future society where books are outlawed and 'firemen' burn any found, challenging the role of censorship and preservation of knowledge.

A surreal, anti‑war tale that follows Billy Pilgrim as he stumbles into time travel and the fire‑bombing of Dresden during World War II.

Philip K. Dick’s Hugo Award‑winning alternate‑history novel imagines a world where World War II ends with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan ruling the former United States, exploring the political intrigue and daily life under this totalitarian regime.

A collection of science fiction short stories about the colonization of Mars

In a future where corporations weaponize genetic engineering, Paolo Bacigalupi’s *The Windup Girl* explores the ethical and societal consequences of bioterrorism and gene hacking.

In a future where people can "jaunte" a thousand miles with a thought, the wealthy fortify labyrinths and hire radioactive hitmen—while an inarticulate outcast becomes the most dangerous figure in the galaxy.

In 2255, retired star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins returns to deep space when a new star drive threatens the galaxy’s core, uncovering the secrets behind the deadly Omega clouds.

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"In his more than eighty years, Francis Wyndham has published very little - one novella and two collections of stories - but his is one of the most individual and compelling bodies of work by a contemporary English writer. As Alan Hollinghurst has said, Wyndham's fiction stands in the tradition of social comedy that goes back through Henry James to Jane Austen, with this difference: Wyndham writes about the lives of privileged and even titled people, but he is drawn to outcasts and odd ducks, adolescents, lonely women, addicts, eccentrics, and idlers.". "The earliest stories here, gathered under the title Out of the War, are brilliant vignettes of deprivation and desire written during World War II. The later Mrs Henderson and Other Stories, by contrast, offers scrupulously observed tragicomic pictures of the vagaries of upper-class English family life. Finally, in the Whitbread Prize-winning short novel The Other Garden, a shy teenage boy living in the country strikes up an unlikely friendship with Kay, the thirty-something daughter of neighbors, sister to a famous actor, and black sheep of her family. Kay, with her whims and crazes and boyfriends, is unable to hold her own against her family's disapproval, and the narrator watches with helpless fascination as her small but very real tragedy is played out against the background of the Second World War."--BOOK JACKET.

A Christmas mystery featuring a private detective who solves a murder during the holiday season.

A curated collection of Jeffrey Archer's short stories that weave political intrigue and social commentary across English and American settings, celebrating the craft of concise storytelling.