Recursion

How it reads

Recursion is science fiction (time-bending science fiction thriller, specifically), and its dominant mood is tense. The suspense is the kind you feel in your shoulders. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in several locations, in the future, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are identity, love and power and politics. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It stands alone, so there's nothing else you need to read first or after. The ending resolves happily. At 329 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.