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Sierra Greer · 2024 · US · science fiction
★ 3.82 Goodreads · 82,014 ratings

Annie is a Cuddle Bunny, a robot designed to be the perfect girlfriend for her owner, Doug, and as her artificial intelligence grows, so does her sense that what she was made for may not be what she wants.

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Philip K. Dick · 1968 · US 94% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 537,562 ratings
shares: robot, artificial intelligence, identity · easy read, intimate

In a radioactive, half-abandoned San Francisco, bounty hunter Rick Deckard hunts escaped androids who are almost indistinguishable from humans, while dreaming of owning a real animal.

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · 1985 · Canada 93% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 2,576,222 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in The Handmaid's Tale
shares: sexual, feminist · easy read, interior

In a theocratic dystopia, a woman is valued only for her fertility, forced to bear children for the ruling class.

He, She and It

Marge Piercy · 1991 · US 92% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 5,893 ratings
shares: artificial intelligence, feminist, romance · idea-driven, speculative

In 2059, after losing custody of her son to her ex-husband's corporation, Shira Shipman goes home to Tikva, a free Jewish town on a ruined American coast, and is asked to help teach Yod, an illegal cyborg built to defend it, how to be human.

A Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1968 · US 92% match ★ 4.01 Goodreads · 378,902 ratings
Book 1 of 6 in Earthsea
shares: philosophical · easy read, speculative

A young wizard on an island archipelago unleashes a shadow from the land of the dead and must chase it across the world to make himself whole.

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021 · UK 89% match ★ 3.78 Hardcover · 1,358 ratings
shares: robot, artificial intelligence · intimate, easy read

A robot designed to be a companion for a dying child observes human love from the outside, powered by the sun and an innocent faith in its warmth.

The Wild Robot

Peter Brown · 2016 · US 85% match ★ 4.23 Goodreads · 133,600 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Wild Robot
shares: robot, artificial intelligence, technological · easy read, intimate

When a crate washes up on a remote island, a robot named Roz is switched on by accident, and with no instructions she has to learn to survive among the wild animals, and becomes mother to an orphaned gosling.

Slow River

Nicola Griffith · 1996 · US 85% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 4,308 ratings
shares: introspective, identity · interior, intimate

A woman rebuilding her life after a violent past navigates corporate intrigue and bioremediation in a near-future where clean water is power.

Man Plus

Frederik Pohl · 1976 · US 85% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 8,949 ratings
shares: artificial intelligence, identity · easy read, speculative

As the Cold War edges towards nuclear war, NASA turns Roger Torraway, an astronaut, into a cyborg built to live unprotected on the surface of Mars.

The Host

Stephenie Meyer · 2008 · US 84% match ★ 3.87 Goodreads · 1,060,170 ratings
shares: identity, romance · easy read, interior

Earth has been taken over by Souls, gentle parasites who live in human bodies, but when one called Wanderer is placed in Melanie Stryder, a captured rebel, Melanie refuses to fade and fills Wanderer's mind with the man she loves.

I, Robot

Isaac Asimov · 1950 · US 83% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 299 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Robot
shares: robot, artificial intelligence · easy read, plain prose

Nine stories chart the evolution of intelligent robots and the Three Laws designed to keep them safe, laws that prove more slippery than anyone intended.

Autonomous

Annalee Newitz · 2017 · US 83% match ★ 3.57 Goodreads · 18,732 ratings
shares: robot · easy read, plain prose

A biotech pirate, a military robot, and a runaway slave converge in a near-future thriller about pharmaceutical freedom and corporate control.

The Speed of Dark

Elizabeth Moon · 2003 · US 83% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 12,016 ratings
shares: introspective, identity · interior, intimate

Lou Arrendale, an autistic man who works in pattern analysis and fences on weekends, is pressured by his company to undergo an experimental treatment that could change who he is.