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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?

OP posts:
MotherofPearl · 09/01/2023 21:00

What about some Ursula Le Guin, OP?

Taranta · 09/01/2023 20:59

Have you read Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451? That’s another dystopian classic I’d say.

Baldieheid · 09/01/2023 20:59

The Road

The Girl With All The Gifts

First 2 that sprung to mind. The Hunger Games books were good, too.

Pieceofpurplesky · 09/01/2023 20:59

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

MotherofPearl · 09/01/2023 20:59

What about some Ursula Le Guin, OP?

MotherofPearl · 09/01/2023 20:59

What about some Ursula Le Guin, OP?

Pieceofpurplesky · 09/01/2023 20:58

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

VioletaDelValle · 09/01/2023 20:58

I enjoyed

Metronome
The stranding
The End of Men
The Men
Widowland
They both die at the end

LozzaChops101 · 09/01/2023 20:57

The Machine Stops. Very short, but spookily prescient!

surreyisik · 09/01/2023 20:57

I quite liked Never Let Me Go. Eerie in a subtle way as you only find out what's really going on later in the book.

LozzaChops101 · 09/01/2023 20:57

The Machine Stops. Very short, but spookily prescient!

VioletaDelValle · 09/01/2023 20:57

I enjoyed

Metronome
The stranding
The End of Men
The Men
Widowland
They both die at the end

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

surreyisik · 09/01/2023 20:57

I quite liked Never Let Me Go. Eerie in a subtle way as you only find out what's really going on later in the book.

fruitpastille · 09/01/2023 20:56

Day of the Triffids.

You could try the sequel to the Handmaid's Tale but it's not as good in my opinion. Emily St John Mandel has also written some other books. I quite liked Sea of Tranquility recently but again not as good as Station 11.

catsnore · 09/01/2023 20:56

Hunger Games
Maze Runner
The Testaments (follow up to Handmaids Tale)
Oryx and Crake (another Atwood!)
Lord of the Flies

There must be more good ones out there!!!

WeThreeKingsofOrientAre · 09/01/2023 20:56

Based on your list, not dystopian but humans set in the faraway future and a bit unusual…. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet a book by Becky Chambers.

missymousey · 09/01/2023 20:55

The Peripheral
Number 9 Dream
Oryx and Crake

abracady · 09/01/2023 20:55

Moths.

missymousey · 09/01/2023 20:54

The Peripheral by William Gibson
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

Tacocatgoatcheesepizza · 09/01/2023 20:53

Have you read the Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey?

RichardMarxisinnocent · 09/01/2023 20:53

I enjoyed We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

MissCherryCakeyBun · 09/01/2023 20:53

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
The Passage by Justin Cronin

powershowerforanhour · 09/01/2023 20:53

The Children of Men

Day of the Triffids

JG Farrell's "Troubles" (a sort of weird micro-dystopia)

Tacocatgoatcheesepizza · 09/01/2023 20:52

Have you read the Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey?

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