For anyone with a fondness for dystopian novels...

[MsAmerica]

Here's a substantial article that might provide you with some new possibilities:

A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction
By Jill Lepore
The New Yorker

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/a-golden-age-for-dystopian-fiction

Thanks for that Ms. I’m reading the Boy on the Bridge at the moment after finding a new liking for Dystopian fiction. Before my new found discovery I’d only really read 1984 and a few John Wyndham novels.

I absolutely love dystopian novels so I will read this with interest!

Julie, it amazes me to find anyone besides me knows of John Wyndham.

Besides "1984," hope you've also read "Brave New World."

This is an older thread I know, but I’ve just found this board. Highly recommend The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver for any fans of alternate near reality / dystopia.

Oh, I loved The Mandibles. I miss them .

I’m currently loving Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel which is fairly similar.

@thepricklysheep thank you - I’ll add that to my list!

The Power by Naomi Alderman

Thanks, will get some ideas. Love dystopian stuff.

I got a bit bored of The Mandibles at the time but now I wish I'd kept the book to re-read it (as the Trumpian era seems quite post-civilisation).

@ladywithlapdog yes it’s definitely worth a re-read if you can find it second hand. Quite spooky how many of the ‘dystopian’ elements of the story are now starting to look more and more like reality.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel is excellent.

I liked the Girl with all the Gifts

"it amazes me to find anyone besides me knows of John Wyndham."

Come over to the 50-Book thread. Many of us have read & reviewed John Wyndham books, like this.

Oh wow. I love this thread. Actually the best thread ever - new books for me!!

Station Eleven is good. I read it on holiday. I loved John Wyndam but not read for decades.

Thanks so much OP. A vote for never let me go / harrowing but a real thinker and love the author.

so many so little time.have been a fan since i was 9 back in the 60s.
some lists

www.listchallenges.com/50-best-dystopian-novels

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dystopian_literature

I love John Wyndham and adored 1984, I read it and re-read it.

The Carhullan Army is a good one, written by Sarah Hall. I also enjoyed The Chaos walking series by accident after my 15 year old left The Knife Of Never Letting Go in the bathroom. It made a change to have something to talk to him about.

Station 11 is lovely. Only Ever Yours is also good, very very sad ending.

Will add Station 11 to my list.

Just finished ‘Flawed’ by Caroline Aherne - was best read I’ve had in ages.

Cecilia Ahern, apologies

Station 11 very good