Recs if you like The Family Experiment...

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

“Nothing here is fake.” — The Truman Show

across both dystopian and realist worlds, these books centre depictions of reality tv in facilitating discussions around surveillance, capitalism, exploitation, and how both global and local suffering is sensationalised.

Metaverse reality shows, holographic concerts, AI robots. The not too distant future looks kinda scary, sometimes dealing with futuristic anxiety is just reading about what would happen if.....

SFF(?) Explorations of the futures gone wrong (annnnnd it’s probably the governments fault, or ours — aka it’s the governments fault)

In-progress / updated over time Recommendations welcome!!

previously named: Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You

Books centered around reality TV (any genre) sorry, some of these are originally in French and there may not be a translation yet

can’t spell “alien” without “ai”

My unread list of GCA 2024

Books with varying degrees of unhinged-ness.

9 out of 10 times I finish a thriller (or horror), the plot immediately leaves my brain. these are the ones that left a lasting impression.

The government wouldn’t do that….. This will of course include the booktok hits and a few more niche recommendations based on what I’ve read

(List created for Book Club theme). Definition 1: Kids being mean, stupid, or bullies. Definition 2: Not caring about or actively exploiting kids.