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Can you suggest any incredible dystopian novels for me to read, pls??

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CantFindTheBeat · 09/01/2023 20:37

I'm desperate to get engrossed in a book again.

Very little seems to interest me right now.

I love dystopian novels.

Over the years, I've loved:

Handmaids Tale
Flawed
The Road
World War Z
Brave New World

Found these ok:

Vox
Station Eleven
The Chrysalids
1984
I am legend

And loads more I can't remember!

Have you read anything along these lines that you would recommend?

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CantFindTheBeat · 09/01/2023 21:15

MotherofPearl · 09/01/2023 20:59

What about some Ursula Le Guin, OP?

I haven't looked her up but I will, thank you 🙏🏻

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Mirabai · 09/01/2023 21:14

Life and Fate Vassily Grossman, unfortunately the dystopia is not imagined but all too real.

MsFrog · 09/01/2023 21:13

Swan Song?
Another vote for The Passage trilogy and The Stand

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CantFindTheBeat · 09/01/2023 21:13

missymousey · 09/01/2023 20:57

Sorry to hear nothing is catching your interest. I have been engrossed by:
The Peripheral
Number 9 Dream
Oryx and Crake

I've just finished the series of The Peripheral. That was so gripping.

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whirlyhead · 09/01/2023 21:12

I loved station 11!

I have a few I would recommend:

severance by ling ma
the waiting rooms by eve smith (spent an entire holiday glued to this)

And the one that gave me nightmares and still haunts me to this day (still plucking up the courage to read it again):

Everything you ever wanted by by Luiza sauma.

that one is brutal.

JanglyBeads · 09/01/2023 21:11

Lots of fab YA ones:
Hunger Games
Divergent
Mazerunner

for starters ......

pumpkinpink · 09/01/2023 21:11

How high we go in the dark, is haunting and beautiful.

MissCherryCakeyBun · 09/01/2023 21:09

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
The Passage by Justin Cronin

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CantFindTheBeat · 09/01/2023 21:08

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 09/01/2023 20:42

The Plague Times trilogy by Louise Welch. The first one is A Lovely Way to Burn and is about a pandemic, then the other books go into a post-apocalyptic reorganisation of society.

Ordered - thank you, this looks right up my street.

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catscatscurrantscurrants · 09/01/2023 21:07

Sorry - The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin. No idea where The Outsiders came from!

Cotswoldmama · 09/01/2023 21:07

I Who Have Never Known Men
Novel by Jacqueline Harpman

Z is for Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien

Never let me go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Witchbitch20 · 09/01/2023 21:07

Sorry for the multiple posts @CantFindTheBeat !

My suggested is good but not to the point I keep repeating it constantly! Site issues.

Danikm151 · 09/01/2023 21:06

The gender game- Bella Forrest. Great series and links to the girl who dared to think series 🙂

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CantFindTheBeat · 09/01/2023 21:06

Yeahrightthen · 09/01/2023 20:42

Have you read any Aldous Huxley? Brave New World?

Ive not read many dystopian novels, handmaids tale obviously - but I also enjoyed Day of the Triffids - quite dated but enjoyable. Have you read any other Margaret Atwood? The Blind Assassin is another I really enjoyed, also Alias Grace which is based on a true story (not dystopian but creepy!)

I haven't read Day of the Triffids but may read that, I remember the TV series, thank you 🙏🏻

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MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 09/01/2023 21:06

sorry I posted multiple times! It was MN's dodgy server wot done it.

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 09/01/2023 21:06

sorry I posted multiple times! It was MN's dodgy server wot done it.

Flowerfairy101 · 09/01/2023 21:06

The carhullan army by Sarah Hall

catscatscurrantscurrants · 09/01/2023 21:05

The Outsiders by Ursula Le Guin
Drinking Sapphire Wine by Tanith Lee

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CantFindTheBeat · 09/01/2023 21:05

abracady · 09/01/2023 20:41

Moths is good fun.

Oh yes, I read that, yes, it was enjoyable - thank you!

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Offleyhoo · 09/01/2023 21:04

The Stand by Stephen King

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 09/01/2023 21:04

I was listening to the Backlisted podcast today (highly recommend) and one of the guys who hosts it was raving about a 1950s post-apocalyptic novel called The Death of Grass. Sounded a bit bleak for me but might be right up your street,

Mrsbadger77 · 09/01/2023 21:04

My DH is very into dystopian books and recommends:
Fahrenheit 451
1984
Slaughterhouse five
The dispossessed
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
The hunger games

Enjoy 😉

Pieceofpurplesky · 09/01/2023 21:03

Forest of Hands and Teeth
Children of Men
The Chaos Walking books (never watch the film)

Invisimamma · 09/01/2023 21:03

I'm not a big dystopian reader but I really enjoyed...

The Power - Naomi Alderman

The Pharmacist - Rachelle Atalla

Slade House - David Mitchell (maybe not quite dystopian but certainly weird and foreboding)

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 09/01/2023 21:01

A friend raved about Klara and the Sun by Ishiguro.

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