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?

The Midwife

I've just finished Severance - forgot the author!

It was good, a flash back and forward during a virus epidemic based in new York. Not long enough and maybe not quite enough "after" for me. It's really well written though.

The Passage by Justin Cronin it absolutely amazing (the rest of the trilogy is good, but the first book is hard to put down). Others have mentioned Wool. Hugh Howey - same author - also did a stand-alone book called 'Sand' - incredibly inventive.

I liked Station Eleven but not sure it's for now. The Dog Star good too.

Oryx and Crake - plus the follow ups
The Passage is one of my favourite books ever.
Off to google Vox

LongPauseNoReply, I'd say How I Live now is Meg Rosoff's second best book ...

Have you read What I Was, also by her? Not dystopian at all - just one of the greatest reads of my life.

Another not-dystopia, but recounting an epidemic - Philip Roth's Nemesis. Deeply absorbing, stays with you for a long time afterwards.

When Donald trump got elected DS went through a dystopian novel phase. I just googled a list and he read an awful lot of them:

Contents:

1. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - reading now
2. 1984 by George Orwell - read
3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - read
4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - read
5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - read
6. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells - read
7. The Giver by Lois Lowry - read
8. Animal Farm by George Orwell - read
9. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card

10. The Road by Cormac McCarthy - read 11. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline - read 12. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut - read 13. The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi 14. Divergent by Veronica Roth 15. Uglies by Scott Westerfeld 16. The Maze Runner by James Dashner - read 17. The Stand by Stephen King 18. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding - read 19. The Chrysalids by John Wyndham 20. Unwind by Neal Shusterman 21. Legend by Marie Lu 22. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - read 23. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 24. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess - read 25. V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Cheerful little bugger! Also We, and the catcher in the rye (he likes it, I never did).

Yes to Ready Player One and Do Androids Dream.

And Lord of the Flies.

The Time Machine is also available as an audio book on Spotify, along with The War of the Worlds (and possibly A Hitchiker's Guide).

Thanks PP - I need to re-read Lord of the Flies.

Natures end Whitley Streiber

Has anybody read 'The Man in the High Castle'? I gave up on the TV series, but I'd be interested to hear more about the book.

Middle - see below. The book began well but was ultimately very disappointing, I thought.

Pretty much anything by JG Ballard- can’t believe this is the first mention of him on a thread about dystopian fiction!
The drowned world and it’s flip side, the drought are both about the world post different apocalypses and are very good. I also love cocaine nights and super cannes which are not post-apocalyptic but are about societal breakdown in the affluent enclaves of the French Riviera.

I miss JG Ballard a lot, he would have had a lot of interesting things to say about the tumultuous times we live in.

Oh gawd - The Book of Strange New Things!!!! I'd forgotten all about that - aliens and a wanking vicar. I hated it!

Oh @RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie that properly made me laugh

It’s definitely not for everyone and I hated every single character (with the exception of the cat), but loved the world that was created.

Thanks Remus

I liked the aliens. Hated the wanking vicar. Can't remember the cat!

Wool trilogy...if not a bit close to home at the moment

Second for The Power

To add to the many great titles already listed:
The death of grass - John Christopher
Shelter - Dave Hutchinson
The Wall - John Lanchester
Doggerland - Ben Smith

Subversive by Paul Grzegorzek is brilliant.

Hi all these are one of my favourite genres :). Ive taken these off my goodreads account of books ive read.

If then, Kate Hope Day.

Before this is over, Amanda Hickie.

The growing season, Helen Sedgwick.

The glad shout, Alice Robinson.

The end we start from, Megan Hunter.

After the end, Clare Mackintosh.

The boy on the bridge, (#2 girl with all the gifts).

When the floods came, Clare Morrall.

Rot & Ruin, Jonathan Maberry.

Positive, David Wellington & Monster and Island Nation.

Across the universe, Beth Nevis.

Dark inside, Jeyn Roberts.

Rise again, Ben Tripp.

The country of icecream star, Sandra Newman.

'We' by Yevgeny Zamiatin. It was a set text on my Russian A-level course.

'We' by Yevgeny Zamiatin

I’m a pretty voracious reader but really struggling with this one. Started it a few months ago, put it down, and haven’t had the motivation to pick it back up again.

Just finding the prose really difficult.

OhMrDarcy thanks so much! I’m going to reread it now.