Authority vs The Dispossessed: Which Should You Read?

Authority Jeff VanderMeer · 2014 ★★★★☆ 3.7 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

For thirty years, a secret agency called the Southern Reach has monitored expeditions into Area X, a remote and lush terrain mysteriously sequestered from civilization. After the twelfth expedition, the Southern Reach…

The Dispossessed Ursula K. Le Guin · 1974 ★★★★☆ 4.3 352 pages · ≈ 6 h 31 m · Moderate

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down the walls of hatred that have isolated his planet of anarchists from the rest of the…