Recs if you like Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072...

For when things seem hopeless. We can always try again and again ❤️

This list is a community project, I asked in the club and received multiple suggestions which I then added onto a list: fiction and nonfiction, fantasy, contemporary, sci-fi, the main theme is just hope. Some people said their recommendation might not fit very well but I added it anyways.

Also, in the og post, I mentioned The Good Place and if people have recommendations tending to that, so some books are related to that.

Someone made a post about this and I thought it was a great list idea. I know I really need books that have more positivity and hope for the future, so hopefully this will help someone else too.

Let me know if I get anything wrong. Please comment recommendations!

when you want to imagine this might all work out okay in the end after all; books set in utopian or at least semi-functional futures. suggestions always welcome!

Books to help us imagine the future we're growing towards

also known as “cozy catastrophes,” these are books that deal with a post-apocalyptic and/or dystopian world but are still hopeful, uplifting, or just leave you with more of a postive feeling!

PLEASE drop your recs!! This is a work in progress and I'm not an expert, just upset that i couldnt find any preexisting pagebound lists highlighting indie books by Black authors

(Non)fictional books about revolutions, where the people have enough and overthrow the system. It's not just "evil emperor", it's a broken system that suffocates people.

This is not Star Wars: A New Hope ✨️, this is Star Wars: Andor ✊🏽

Do you feel like you've read everything there is to read? Or get annoyed that the same books are on all the rec lists? Well, here are some more obscure masterpieces!

Some of the covers are terrible - especially among the older or self-pubbed books; there's a few YA in here; and some that are science fantasy rather than 'pure' sci fi. But trust me: they're all EXCELLENT. (And if you already love a bunch of these, let's be friends!)

Fiction that imagines US or post-US futures within the next ~100 years with major societal changes and themes including war, revolution, decolonization, climate change, balkanization, collapse, etc. Suggestions welcome

speculative and climate fiction about where we’re going

Fiction with revolutionary themes or spirit because prefiguration (imagining possible futures, designing alternatives) is crucial. Also contains works engaging with revolutions and the lives enmeshed within them. We must protect the little flame. And books are the best.

Trans authors. Trans MCs. Selected by trans librarians for the book club at the Free Library of Philadelphia. Read along with us!

Books with seemingly disparate stories which are woven together

I recently read How To Fall In Love With The Future and was thinking of books that remind me of that method of imagining a future where the reforms we want have already happened and imagining how we got there. If anyone has suggestions I'm incredibly open to it!

hope when ur queer and exhausted and sad and angry

Books set in/around New York City

Recommendations welcome! :)