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

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

217 replies

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:
MissCherryCakeyBun · 09/01/2023 20:52

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
The Passage by Justin Cronin

countdowntonap · 09/01/2023 20:52

The MaddAddam Trilogy Series by Margaret Atwood

LozzaChops101 · 09/01/2023 20:52

The Machine Stops. Very short, but spookily prescient!

MissCherryCakeyBun · 09/01/2023 20:51

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
The Passage by Justin Cronin

powershowerforanhour · 09/01/2023 20:51

The Children of Men
Day of the Triffids
JG Farrell's "Troubles" (a sort of weird micro-dystopia)

Bobbybobbins · 09/01/2023 20:51

Short story but love 'The Birds'

Tratjymp · 09/01/2023 20:51

Lord of the Flies.

IsItMimi · 09/01/2023 20:51

Day of the Triffids? I think it's become a bit of a cliché because of bad adaptations, but I enjoyed the book.

You could also try virtually any other Margaret Atwood book if you liked the handmaid's tale. Also, classics are classic for a reason, so if you haven't tried them, try The Road, A Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451.....

FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 09/01/2023 20:51

A friend totally loved Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.

MissCherryCakeyBun · 09/01/2023 20:51

Wanderers by Chuck Wendig
The Passage by Justin Cronin

Tratjymp · 09/01/2023 20:51

Lord of the Flies.

thenightsky · 09/01/2023 20:51

After reading Vox, I then read Femlandia by the same author.
I enjoyed that.

Also, Skin by Liam Brown.

I love a good dystopian novel, so I'm really place marking for more suggestions. Grin

Theredjellybean · 09/01/2023 20:51

The Wall
The Power
Femlandia

Any of the maddadam series by Margaret Atwood..plus the heart goes first .

The farm
Never let me go
Dust trilogy
The ship

I love dystopian futures

parietal · 09/01/2023 20:51

Power by Naomi Alderman
The Country of Ice Cream Star by Sandra Newman
Oryx and Crake: MaddAddam Trilogy, Book 1
by Margaret Atwood
The fifth season - NK Jesimin

Witchbitch20 · 09/01/2023 20:50

The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird

LozzaChops101 · 09/01/2023 20:50

The Machine Stops. Very short, but spookily prescient!

RhubarbFairy · 09/01/2023 20:50

I enjoyed both The Constant Rabbit (1984 meets Animal Farm with parallels with antisemitism in WW2) and The House in the Cerulean Sea (dystopia but with hope).

I thought House was one of the most beautiful books I've ever read, and Rabbit stayed with me for a while.

Mykittensmittens · 09/01/2023 20:50

Day of the triffids?
ice people?

there was another Atwood one about children who lived on top of roofs but I can’t recall the name!

LozzaChops101 · 09/01/2023 20:50

The Machine Stops. Very short, but spookily prescient!

karmalama · 09/01/2023 20:50

I love " how I live now " by Meg rosoff. Very easy to engage with but has some haunting scenes that stay with you.

citybumpkin · 09/01/2023 20:50

Fahrenheit 451 (try and watch the film as well - amazing scene of burning books)
We
The Dispossessed

GurlwiththeCurl · 09/01/2023 20:50

The Fifth Season #01 of the Broken Earth trilogy by N K Jemisin. A really brilliant and unusual trilogy. Very dark indeed!

countdowntonap · 09/01/2023 20:50

The MaddAddam Trilogy Series by Margaret Atwood

WetBandits · 09/01/2023 20:50

Have you read Never Let Me Go?

karmalama · 09/01/2023 20:49

I love " how I live now " by Meg rosoff. Very easy to engage with but has some haunting scenes that stay with you.