Best dystopian books

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I've read Fatherland, 1984, The Stand, Handmaid's Tale, etc. Am looking for recommendations along those lines .. plague, aliens and the like

What's the best dystopian book you've read?

I’m halfway through Vox but I’ve had to stop as I couldn’t cope with it in the current climate! I was enjoying it though, perhaps one for you?

The Road

I've not heard of Vox, thanks!

I think I've heard of The Road before and heard good things

The girl with all the gifts

Dark Eden

If you like Vox also The Power

Thanks!! Keep them coming, we may be here a while

Swansong-Robert McCammon

Anything John Wyndham, especially The Chrysalids (post-nuclear apocalypse), Day of the Triffids (everyone goes blind plus aliens) The Kraken Wakes (rising sea levels plus aliens).

We by Zamyatin
Children of Men by PD James
I am legend?

Some YA ones are pretty good as well.

The 'after it happened' series by Devon C Ford was excellent on audible.

Fantastic suggestions, thanks

I read one recommended on here years ago that I’m hoping someone remembers. I think it might have started on a blog. It was about electricity failing and a family trying to grow their own food etc. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Thanks.

Strictly a book aimed at teens but Children of the dust is very good.

The End of the World Running Club was entertaining.

Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley written a long time ago but still a good read.

I'm currently recommending Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel to everyone I know.

You need it right now.

Thanks Perdita!

@Q1w2e3 I think it was called Powerless by Suzanne Goldring. Fab book with lots of domestic detail.

Oh and Station Eleven is excellent, though has slightly incredulous moments

(There are one or two threads knocking around on it, but spoilers, so you'd want to read it first ...)

Try One Second After by William Forstchen - set in the US and very good on small town disaster. Don't read if you've a diabetic in the family though.

I always recommend the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness.

TBH, you can't go wrong with lots more Stephen King in days like these. Have you read Cell?

A Clockwork Orange is worth the effort of wrestling with the language.

I'm reading Station Eleven now. It started well. I hope it keeps it up!

Station Eleven is very good!

If you liked Robert Harris, you might enjoy The Second Sleep

I'm currently halfway through The Last Day and really enjoying it

A Clockwork Orange is superb.

Cell is okay - basically a more modern and more YA-ish The Stand - not a patch on The Stand but okay.

I really liked the first Chaos Walking but thought they got worse and the third was poor.

The Passage is really good, second decent but I hated the third.

I HATED Station Eleven - it divides opinion a lot.

Mira Grant's Feed series is okay - zombies.

World War Z is good.