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Recommendations please - dystopian fiction

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MoorGirl · 11/04/2022 21:19

Any ideas?
I have previously really enjoyed:

Battle Royale
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake trilogy
Children of Time
The Hunger Games series

Thanks!

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MoorGirl · 12/04/2022 06:10

I forgot Station Eleven, might reread that! Thanks all for the great recommendations, I'll get hunting!

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Happyelfjokeday · 11/04/2022 21:52

Agree with Never Let Me Go
The Wall was a recent one (John Lanchester)

Yourheartwillleadyouhome · 11/04/2022 21:49

I LOVE the Wool Trilogy!

MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet · 11/04/2022 21:49

The Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey

MustBeDueSomeBetterFeet · 11/04/2022 21:44

Divergent series
Maze Runner series

There's another great series, let me see if I can find the name...

biser · 11/04/2022 21:42

I am Legend by Richard Matheson. An interesting compare and contrast to Nevil Shute's contemporaneous On The Beach.

Talking of beaches, Alex Garland's The Beach is also good.

JohannSebastianBach · 11/04/2022 21:34

I enjoyed The City and The City by China Miéville.

Hoolihan · 11/04/2022 21:32

Farenheit 451
Never Let Me Go
Klara and the Sun
Maze Runner series

RagzRebooted · 11/04/2022 21:31

The Running Game (and the rest of the series) by LE Fitzpatrick (may only be on Kindle, I have a paper copy though).

Station Eleven is good, better than the TV series.

whirlyhead · 11/04/2022 21:31

I spent all of lockdown reading such books!

Severance by ling na
Station 11 by Emily St. John mandel
The high house by jessie greengrass (cried my eyes out)
The waiting rooms by eve smith

The book I found most upsetting/moving and stuck in my head was everything you ever wanted by Luisa sauma. Genuinely disturbing!

Not a cheerful bunch of books but fascinating.

DuckDuckNo · 11/04/2022 21:29

Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go
Jose Saramago: Blindness

piglet81 · 11/04/2022 21:28

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, and some of his others too
Tomorrow When the War Began
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
Brave New World
Station Eleven
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Road
Never Let Me Go

ElbowsandArses · 11/04/2022 21:25

Station Eleven (about a pandemic which I read Feb 2020!)
Arcadia by Iain Pears (not strictly dystopian but speculative fiction)

eddiemairswife · 11/04/2022 21:24

Handmaids tale. 1984

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MoorGirl · 11/04/2022 21:20

And The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver.

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