Book recommendations - dystopian theme

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My favourite books are Brave New World, 1984, Planet of the Apes, Lord of the Flies.

Can I have some suggestions for new reads please? :)

John Wyndham books: Day of the Triffids, The Kraken Wakes, Midwitch Cuckoos, The Trouble With Lichen etc.

Margaret Attwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

If you can get hold of them there are some older books, written for children but quite dark, called 'Empty World' by John Christopher and 'Children of the Dust' by Louise Lawrence.

If I can think of more I'll come back, I love dystopias :)

Oh yes recently read Day of the Triffids which was great, and Handmaid's Tale is another favourite (love Margaret Atwood).

Will look up the others, thank you!

The Hunger Games are very dark and dystopian - not children's books at all.

Meg Roscoff - the title is something like "the way we live now" - once again supposedly a teen book, but a great read!

Not really dystopian as such, but have you read the Philip Pullman trilogy, "his dark materials"

I would recommend Kafka (The Trial and Metamorphosis particularly)

also The Road - by Cormac McCarthy

Yes to Kafka.

Just dystopian or post-apocoyptic too?

The Meg Rosoff one is called, 'How I Live Now' - it's okay but not great. 'Children Of The Dust' is okay too.

For great and if you don't mind Post Ap, you need King's The Stand or for not bad you need Neville Shute's, 'On The Beach.'

If you don't mind children's, try 'Brother In The Land' and 'Z For Zacaria' (have forgotten how to spell Zac though).

War Of The Worlds? King's The Running Man?

I Am Legend? I didn't like that much tbh - tis a classic though.

Yes to the Hunger Games - not great writing but a good idea.

Are you up for crap zombie novels?

Fahrenheit 451?

hunger games trilogy and divergent. divergent is best.

also The Road

A Gift Upon the Shore
Alas, Babylon
Earth Abides
Non-Stop
Brother in the Land
Just about anything by John Wyndham and most of John Christopher's stuff
A Canticle for Leibowitz
On the Beach
The Amtrak Wars series
Into the Forest
Oryx and Crake
Just about any by Monica Hughes or HM Hoover

1Q84 I've heard good things about this, but haven't read it yet.

Post apocalyptic is great too :) and zombies!

Loads of really good suggestions :) have put The Kraken Wakes on iPhone kindle, will look up the others.

I wasn't keen on Fahrenheit 451, I can't remember why, will need to try it again.

Thanks!

Fahrenheit 451 isn't one of my favourites, nowhere near as good as 1984, BNW and the handmaid's tale, but it was the only one I could think of that hadn't been mentioned.

Right - crap zombie books alert. They are crap but sort of horribly compelling too! There are two and will be at least one more:

'Feed' by Mira Grant
Can't remember what the second one's called.

And for a hugely entertaining book (and providing you like Jane Austen), 'Pride And Prejudice With Zombies' is excellent! :)

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham, best book of his.
Second Oryx and Crake.
Some don't like it on here but Cloud Atlas.
His Dark Materials: excellent, though not necessarily dystopian...
For children but good Diana Wynne Jones The Homeward Bounders.

I second Cloud Atlas. It is absolutely fantastic.

Richard K Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels, starting with Altered Carbon. Not Brave New World but very dark and gritty.

What I understand from your OP is that you like "dark" themes, even if not necessarily about a dystopian future. Have you read anything by J G Ballard?

Riddley Walker - Russell Hoban. Peerless.

'Mara and Dann' - Doris Lessing
'The Book Of Dave' - Will Self

Anyone know what 'After the Snow' - S D Crockett is like?
It's supposed to be for teenagers - but wondered if it was good.

I was really, really disappointed by Riddley Walker.

Delirium by Lauren Oliver < - aimed at young adults really but an okay read

I second...third The Hunger Games, I've also got Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go but haven't started it yet.

Try the Bold As Love series by Gwyneth Jones: I adore these books but hardly anyone else has read them. Also King Blood or Blood Crazy by Simon Clark: some interesting theorizing in those as well as decently-paced apocalypse stuff.
I have been trying to write a post-apocalypse one myself but getting a bit stuck at the moment.

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

Awesome.

Level 7.

Can't remember author, sorry. But is like On the Beach.

JG Ballard might be of interest.

1984
Brave New World
The Handmaid's Tale