more dystopia please

[theredjellybean]

help..i think i have run out of dystopian futures..

i have read all Margaret Atwood
the power, vox, the wall, the ship, farneheight 451, a book by ben elton about illegal books ( can't recall the name) , only ever yours, and the well, another one about a plague/virus in uk ( cant recall its name follows two mums and group of kids who were camping at the time escape to norway) , all three of the passage trilogy...

some more suggestions please....

I have just finished the YA trilogy of The Children of the Mountain by R A Hakok. I did not realise it was Y. A until I finished the first one. I found it absorbing. Also Surviving the Evacuation by Frank Tayell I have read the 15 (!) books in this series.

My favourite genre! Trying to think of ones not already mentioned - Gather the Daughters and The History of Bees.

Glad to see love for Wool.
I’m on book 3 of The Passage at the moment and finding it hard going.

Thank you wonderful dystopic mumsnetters... I also forgot I just read 'gather all the daughters'... Again very good read, though bits were quite unpleasant.
This thread has given me loads of new ideas and reminded me of some books I'd forgotten I'd read.

Just read the Gone series (my DS had them) and enjoyed it more than I should 😁 he has chaos walking so might try that too !

The unit. I’m just about to start Wool so glad it’s got good reviews.

If you can get a copy then A Canticle for Leibowist' is fab too.

Finished Station 11 yesterday and loved it! Thank you to PPs who recommended it 😊

Part way through The Road, I feel like this is too depressing even for me?
Should I keep going?

Sorry haven’t RTFT (yet) but I’m guessing you’ve read 1984? If not, go there first.

Earth Abides is very good, and original imho.

Birdbox was a book before it was a movie, right?

Hunger Games books, of course.

I loathed The Road. It's pretty grim. Stupid to say a post-apoccalpt novel is unrealistic... but that one especially so.

Lots of choices on Goodreads.

These days just read the Guardian.

I enjoyed The Book of the Unnamed Midwife recently. Can't remember the name of the second in the trilogy but the third part is due out soon I think.

Jim Crace - The Pesthouse
John Christopher - The Death Of Grass
Nick Harkaway - The Gone-Away World
Nevil Shute - On The Beach

Not sure it’s classed as dystopian as it’s very near future - The Mandibles by Lionel shriver - although if you are worried about post no-deal brexit probably not one to read...

I like the same kinds of books as you do. Just started the 'Last' by Hanna Jameson - end of the world story. Only a couple of chapters in but enjoying it so far.

I'd also recommend some YA stuff: Hunger Games, Knife of Letting Go, Bumped (Megan McCafferty.)

Going to keep an eye on this thread for other suggestions too.

I enjoyed The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, set in the near-future of the USA and focusing on water shortages and corporate greed and manipulation of the situation.

Forgot to mention the Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Bump

i just bought Gather the Daughters on Kindle.

I can't quite bring myself to buy YA fiction though. I would have loved to have read Birdbox before I saw the dreadful film and I wish also I'd read The Children of Men before I saw that film too.

@biketart.gather the daughters is a really good book but a bit tough reading as it's pretty grim in bits.

Red Clocks by Leni Zumbas.

Zumas

CHRIST I'm stopping The Road it's horrific, no one would carry on trying to live in that world you'd just kill yourself surely??? Nope nope nope.
I'll try again with another suggestion from this thread and hopefully will like the next one as much as Station 11

I couldn't read the Road either. Film grim too.

I just listened to The Last on Audible, and though I got to the end I didn’t really care for it. I didn’t care about any of the characters. Anyone else read it?