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Ask HN: What's your favorite book that nobody you know has heard of?

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Sometime Never: A Fable for Supermen, by Roahl Dahl

The Earth Abides, by George Stewart. Story is set in Berkeley, CA after a disease kills most life on earth, maybe a little too on the nose these days...

Paolo Bacigalupi's short stories (e.g. Pump Six), some of which he later turned into longer books.

Courtship Rite, by Don Kingsbury. Plot is kind of bland but the worldbuilding is fantastic, essentially an attempt to create a world where cannibalism isn't immediately though of as an ultimate evil, which leads to odd implications for society.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite book that nobody you know has heard of?

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Most people haven't heard of Betty White's Miracle at Carville.

It's the autobiography of a Southern debutante in Louisiana who contracted Hansen's disease. She is sent to a leper colony and spends the next 20 years there.

Copies of the book are quite expensive on Amazon but I was able to obtain it as an interlibrary loan.

The Internet Archive also has it available for lending.

https://archive.org/details/miracleatcarvill0000mart

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