Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
What we're reading

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

Original poster

more dystopia please

105 replies

theredjellybean · 02/03/2019 15:10

help..i think i have run out of dystopian futures..

i have read all Margaret Atwood
the power, vox, the wall, the ship, farneheight 451, a book by ben elton about illegal books ( can't recall the name) , only ever yours, and the well, another one about a plague/virus in uk ( cant recall its name follows two mums and group of kids who were camping at the time escape to norway) , all three of the passage trilogy...

some more suggestions please....

OP posts:
Original poster
theredjellybean · 17/03/2019 19:53

Just reading red clocks.. A bit tricky

OP posts:
mizu · 15/03/2019 18:45

Loved the Wool trilogy and have The Unit and Gather the Daughters by my bed ready to read - love a good dystopian read.

GahWhatever · 14/03/2019 13:08

The Death of Grass by Samuel Youd (we read this for O level once upon a time)
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham (and although not all dystopian you may like some of his other books as the tone is similar)

Original poster
theredjellybean · 13/03/2019 21:49

Oh yes the end of the world running club is fab book

OP posts:
ScarlettDarling · 12/03/2019 20:02

Not dystopian, more post apocalyptic, but I loved 'The end of the world running club.'

LessLivid · 12/03/2019 07:46

I just listened to The Last on Audible, and though I got to the end I didn’t really care for it. I didn’t care about any of the characters. Anyone else read it?

Beamur · 12/03/2019 07:34

I couldn't read the Road either. Film grim too.

harper30 · 12/03/2019 00:10

CHRIST I'm stopping The Road it's horrific, no one would carry on trying to live in that world you'd just kill yourself surely??? Nope nope nope.
I'll try again with another suggestion from this thread and hopefully will like the next one as much as Station 11

Steala · 11/03/2019 03:48

Zumas

Steala · 11/03/2019 03:48

Red Clocks by Leni Zumbas.

Original poster
theredjellybean · 10/03/2019 21:55

@biketart.gather the daughters is a really good book but a bit tough reading as it's pretty grim in bits.

OP posts:
BikeTart · 10/03/2019 15:57

i just bought Gather the Daughters on Kindle.

I can't quite bring myself to buy YA fiction though. I would have loved to have read Birdbox before I saw the dreadful film and I wish also I'd read The Children of Men before I saw that film too.

Bubba1234 · 09/03/2019 22:35

Bump

mum2jakie · 09/03/2019 19:30

Forgot to mention the Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

ArmchairTraveller · 09/03/2019 19:28

I enjoyed The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, set in the near-future of the USA and focusing on water shortages and corporate greed and manipulation of the situation.

mum2jakie · 09/03/2019 19:16

I like the same kinds of books as you do. Just started the 'Last' by Hanna Jameson - end of the world story. Only a couple of chapters in but enjoying it so far.

I'd also recommend some YA stuff: Hunger Games, Knife of Letting Go, Bumped (Megan McCafferty.)

Going to keep an eye on this thread for other suggestions too.

ceeveebee · 09/03/2019 13:45

Not sure it’s classed as dystopian as it’s very near future - The Mandibles by Lionel shriver - although if you are worried about post no-deal brexit probably not one to read...

Albgo · 09/03/2019 13:39

Jim Crace - The Pesthouse
John Christopher - The Death Of Grass
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Nevil Shute - On The Beach

seeingdots · 09/03/2019 13:23

I enjoyed The Book of the Unnamed Midwife recently. Can't remember the name of the second in the trilogy but the third part is due out soon I think.

cdtaylornats · 09/03/2019 11:58

These days just read the Guardian.

lljkk · 09/03/2019 10:53

Earth Abides is very good, and original imho.

Birdbox was a book before it was a movie, right?

Hunger Games books, of course.

I loathed The Road. It's pretty grim. Stupid to say a post-apoccalpt novel is unrealistic... but that one especially so.

Lots of choices on Goodreads.

evilharpy · 09/03/2019 10:42

Sorry haven’t RTFT (yet) but I’m guessing you’ve read 1984? If not, go there first.

harper30 · 08/03/2019 13:05

Finished Station 11 yesterday and loved it! Thank you to PPs who recommended it 😊

Part way through The Road, I feel like this is too depressing even for me?
Should I keep going?

buckingfrolicks · 05/03/2019 18:57

If you can get a copy then A Canticle for Leibowist' is fab too.

ButterflyBitch · 05/03/2019 17:16

The unit. I’m just about to start Wool so glad it’s got good reviews.