Octavia E. Butler's most recommended books

We've asked 12,000+ authors and super readers for their favorite books. Here are their favorite books by Octavia E. Butler.

Chosen by 34 people

Books like Parable of the Sower

Chosen by 17 people

Books like Kindred

Chosen by 11 people

Books like Dawn

Chosen by 7 people

Books like Wild Seed

Chosen by 3 people

Books like Parable of the Talents

Chosen by 2 people

Books like Lilith's Brood

Chosen by 1 person

Books like Dawn

Chosen by 1 person

Books like Fledgling

Book lists with Octavia E. Butler's books

74 authors created a book list with a book by Octavia E. Butler as one of their picks.

• Finding your personal AI: Ancestral Intelligence
• Microbes and alien minds
• Helping you make sense of change amidst wild ambiguity
• End of the world books
• Subversive women standing up to powerful men
• Female protagonists disrupting patriarch authority

Book lists connected to Octavia E. Butler's books

410 authors created a book list connected to Octavia E. Butler's books by genre, topic, theme, and mood.

• Being Black in America
• The history of African American education
• The history of land dispossession
• Black poetry
• Why racism persists
• Lyrical memoirs from the soul

Genres connected to Octavia E. Butler's books

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