Parable of the Talents

Parable of the Talents

By
Octavia E. Butler
Octavia E. Butler
1993 • 496 pages

Ratings102

Average rating4.2

15

List

61 books

Nebula Award for Best Novel (1965 to 2023)

emma
Emma GotoSupporter
Dune
Babel-17
Flowers for Algernon
The Einstein Intersection
Rite of Passage
The Left Hand of Darkness
Ringworld

List

528 books

Every Book Banned in Texas

gleeok
laima
Dear diary, I'm pregnant
We March
Antonio's card
The Great American Whatever
Tattoo Atlas
Willful Machines
All the Bad Apples

List

6 books

Scifi

toddtyrtle
Todd Tyrtle
Feed
Fahrenheit 451
Parable of the Talents
Earth
The Wild Shore
The family tree

List

13 books

Want To Buy

Kaydot
Katie
Digital Minimalism
Parable of the Talents
Parable of the Sower
Moi qui n'ai pas connu les hommes
A Darker Shade of Magic
A Gathering of Shadows
A Conjuring of Light

List

78 books

Borrowed

Kaydot
Katie
Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
Neuromancer
The Glass Hotel
Piranesi
Wear, Repair, Repurpose: A Maker's Guide to Mending and Upcycling Clothes

List

104 books

Fiction

matijao
Matija
The Metamorphosis
A Funny Man's Dream
A Gentle Creature
The Villager
After You, My Dear Alphonse
The Egg
Exercises in Style

List

241 books

Bipoc Authors

Linguana
Dina
The Gilded Ones
Remote Control
Jade Legacy
When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain
The Burning God
These Violent Delights
Phoenix Extravagant

List

65 books

Favorites

tonyaf
Tonya
Anne of Green Gables
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire
Mockingjay
Weyward
Station Eleven
Boyfriend Material

List

1,567 books

Scifi

starthistle1
Steven Rongley
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
2001: A Space Odyssey
Jurassic Park
Stranger in a Strange Land
Contact
Speaker for the Dead
The Andromeda Strain

List

67 books

2017

Lisa
Lisa
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
White Rage
The Girl with All the Gifts
We Should All Be Feminists
A Clockwork Orange
The Underground Railroad

List

115 books

Books

milena
Lilith
Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth
Angels & Demons
The Lost Symbol
Veronika Decides to Die
The Da Vinci Code
A Study in Scarlet

List

25 books

Interested

talkingmoose
William Smith
The Ghost Sequences
Beloved
Parable of the Talents
Foucault's Pendulum
Build
The House in the Cerulean Sea
The Book of Accidents

List

92 books

Favorites

theryan
Ryan
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too
The Graveyard Book
To Kill a Mockingbird
Scythe
The Hate U Give
Burned
Columbine

List

121 books

2019

theryan
Ryan
Heartless
Swipe Right for Murder
The First Lady
The Institute
The Ride of a Lifetime
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

List

111 books

Favorite Reads Of 2023

tonyaf
Tonya
The Book of Cold Cases
Weyward
Station Eleven
Boyfriend Material
1984
Animal Farm
Heartstopper: Volume Three

List

87 books

Speculative

BronwynK
Bronwyn Knox
The Handmaid's Tale
Oryx and Crake
The Year of the Flood
MaddAddam
Fahrenheit 451
A Clockwork Orange
Lilith's Brood

List

15 books

Made Me Cry

tonyaf
Tonya
Brokeback Mountain
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Kaikeyi
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Circe
Nick and Charlie
The House in the Cerulean Sea

List

60 books

Woman Lead

tonyaf
Tonya
We Don't Eat Our Classmates
Parable of the Sower
An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
When the Reckoning Comes
Outlawed
The Sun Down Motel
Kaikeyi

List

20 books

Dystopia

tonyaf
Tonya
Parable of the Sower
Outlawed
Mockingjay
Catching Fire
The Hunger Games
1984
Animal Farm

List

12 books

Post Apocalyptic

tonyaf
Tonya
Station Eleven
Parable of the Sower
Into the Mist
Parable of the Talents
Soul Eater
In the Lives of Puppets
Clean Air

List

4 books

Thought Provoking

tonyaf
Tonya
Parable of the Sower
1984
Parable of the Talents
The Power

List

2,141 books

To Be Read Pile

markmtz
Mark Martinez
A Dance of Cloaks
Blightborn
The Shambling Guide to New York City

List

635 books

Science Fiction

markmtz
Mark Martinez
Cowboys and Aliens
Eye Killers
Timeline
Circle's
Kachina
Shadoweyes
Hardwired

List

1,063 books

X Kindle

markmtz
Mark Martinez
Spider Woman's Daughter
Anti-Hero
The Three Musketeers
You're Never Weird on the Internet
The Annihilation Score
Starman: The Truth Behind the Legend of Yuri Gagarin

List

8 books

Read In 2022

thursdayborn
Aba
Blood of Elves
Sword of Destiny
The Last Wish
Siege and Storm
Ruin and Rising
The Tower of the Swallow
The Lady of the Lake
Next