Best Octavia Butler Books Ranked
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12. Clay’s Ark
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.40 | 3.83 | 3.76 | 4.00 |
Overview
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Favorite Quote
They had clearly feared turn-of-the-century irrationality—religious overzealousness on one side, destructive hedonism on the other, with both heated by ideological intolerance and corporate greed.
11. Fledgling
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.40 | 3.86 | 3.84 | 4.03 |
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Let them see that you trust them and let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions. Do that and they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, and after a while you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, and stifling their resentment.
10. Patternmaster
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.50 | 4.01 | 3.64 | 4.05 |
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Favorite Quote
“When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.”
9. Survivor
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.70 | 3.86 | 3.83 | 4.13 |
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8. Dawn
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.40 | 4.13 | 4.03 | 4.19 |
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Favorite Quote
“Yes,” he said, “intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn’t matter.”
7. Mind of My Mind
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.70 | 4.12 | 3.86 | 4.23 |
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Favorite Quote
“Could a creature who had to look upon ordinary people literally as food and shelter ever understand how strongly those people valued life?”
6. Adulthood Rites
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.50 | 4.17 | 4.09 | 4.25 |
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Favorite Quote
“The differences you perceive between Humans — between groups of Humans — are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments.”
5. Parable of the Sower
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.70 | 4.16 | 4.04 | 4.30 |
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Favorite Quote
“All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. The only lasting truth Is change.”
4. Wild Seed
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.60 | 4.21 | 4.10 | 4.30 |
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Favorite Quote
“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.”
3. Imago
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.60 | 4.19 | 4.12 | 4.30 |
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Favorite Quote
“Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.”
2. Parable of the Talents
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.80 | 4.27 | 4.06 | 4.38 |
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Favorite Quote
“In order to rise From its own ashes A phoenix First Must Burn.”
1. Kindred
| Amazon | Goodreads | LibraryThings | Overall |
| 4.70 | 4.26 | 4.21 | 4.39 |
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Favorite Quote
“Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
