Dystopian fiction

[UnarmedKoala]

I’ve recently discovered Margaret Atwood and now have a new genre of fiction to read, can anyone recommend some good authors or books? I’ve read and loved Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, and the Hunger Games trilogy. Nothing too sci-fi (I have read a couple of Clare North books but they didn’t quite hit the spot)

I'd second The Carhullan Army.
Has anyone mentioned Marge Pearcey - Woman on the Edge of Time - if you like Margaret Atwood I'd say she's an obvious choice.

A series I really enjoyed that is almost post-dystopian - if that makes sense - is Gemsigns +sequels by Stephanie Saulter. (It's also only 99p on Kindle.)

The Fractured Europe series by Dave Hutchinson is also really good - near future dystopian thriller in which Europe has fragmented into hundreds of mini-states.

Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
The Giver - Lois Lowry (young adult fiction)
Uglies
Logan’s Run
The Iron Heel
Neuromancer
The Running Man
The Drowned World

I love a good dystopia but I haven't got one to recommend that hasn't already been mentioned. I have recently downloaded a book called Gather the Daughters but I've not read it yet. I read The Power earlier on in the year and its one of my favourite reads of 2017.

Place marking as I enjoy a good dystopian read.
My contribution to the thread is Then by Julie Myerson.

The Wool Trilogy is fab.

American War is a book by Omar somebody, sorry can't remember his surname. Haven't read it but it's on my amazon list, set in the future in, yep you've guessed it, America

How I live now.

And I'm another whose favourite book is The Handmaid's Tale.

The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver

John Christopher - The Prince in Waiting trilogy. V. bleak young adult fiction with a surprising pay-off. And The Death of Grass - written about the same time as the Day of the Triffids, but much much darker.

Also Robert Westall's Futuretrack 5. A world of Ests (the establishment), and unnems (the unemployed). Again, young adult literature with big themes.

Post apocalyptic rather than strictly dystopian but the stand by Steven King is fab. And station eleven is wonderful.

And more horror-ish but sort in the same vein is World War Z. Nothing like the film at all, it is a wonderful collection of ‘survivor stories’ after a zombie apocalypse, it’s got some really great scenes, exciting and sometimes quite moving. It’s tense but not scary and not that gory considering the setting). I love it, can you tell!

I really enjoyed reading The Circle by Dave Eggers.

Earth Abides by George R Stewart. It's in the SF Masterworks series, but those who aren't keen on sci-fi still love it.
The Wool trilogy
1984
Ready Player One
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream (terrifying title and stories)
Battle Royale

The Giver Quartet by Lois Lowry is fabulous. It's YA fiction, but then again so are a fair few of the books mentioned on this thread.

Ooh, my favourite.

More postapocalyptic than dystopian maybe but:

Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban
Zone One by Colson Whitehead

I’m reviving this.
Red queen series by Victoria aveyard might appeal if you liked the hunger games?

Ooooh. Might try Fractured Europe - thanks.

I'm currently reading The Power about a feminist dystopia (sounds like a contradiction in terms!)

Very unusual and exciting so far.

Lanark by Alastair Gray is I guess dystopian and at times a hard read (technically rather than story wise) but really worth it

I don't know if this fits I love black mirror type programmes but absolutely love "the passage" by Justin Cronin (think that's his name) trilogy.

I also liked some classics such as:

1984, animal farm ect

Age of Miracles, it's about a young girl and what happens when the world begins to slow down.

1984 is brilliant and more relevant than ever.

Alduos Huxley Brave New World.

The Postman by David Brin
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller
Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven
Supervolcano series by Harry Turtledove

The Chimes by Anna Smaill

I would second The Passage by Justin Cronin, one of my favourites!

I've also just finished Birdbox which was fab, a really interesting concept.

Ready player one, I really enjoyed. Again a bit Teen but still good.