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Charlie Jane Anders’s Literary Influences

  1. 1

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot · 1800

  2. 2

    Invisible Man

    Ralph Ellison · 1952

  3. 3

    The Quiet American

    Graham Greene · 1940

  4. 4

    China men

    Maxine Hong Kingston · 1977

  5. 5

    The good terrorist

    Doris Lessing · 1985

  6. 6

    Possession

    A. S. Byatt · 1890

  7. 7

    Mysterious skin.

    Scott Heim · 1995

  8. 8

    Into the beautiful North

    Luis Alberto Urrea · 2009

  9. 9
    BookUseful phrases for immigrantsMay-Lee Chai · 2018

    Useful phrases for immigrants

    May-Lee Chai · 2018

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Middlemarch, China Men and The Archer appear in Charlie Jane Anders’s 2024 selection of literary books that influenced her science-fiction writing.

Source: https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/10-literary-books-that-made-me-a-better-science/

Numbers show collection order, not a source rating.

  1. Middlemarch — George Eliot
  2. Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison
  3. The Quiet American — Graham Greene
  4. China men — Maxine Hong Kingston
  5. The good terrorist — Doris Lessing
  6. Possession — A. S. Byatt
  7. Mysterious skin. — Scott Heim
  8. Into the beautiful North — Luis Alberto Urrea
  9. Useful phrases for immigrants — May-Lee Chai
  10. Archer — Shruti Swamy