Looking for good Dystopians (not YA)

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I'm finding it quite hard to find non YA dystopians - I have read a few here and there but would love some recommendations if anyone has any.

Have you tried Never let me Go? It's by the same Japanese writer who wrote The Remains of the Day, hang on, I'll look up his name..

Kazuo Ishiguro.

The Age of Miracles

William R Fortschen One Second After trilogy is great.

I also like Justin Cronin's The Twelve trilogy

What is YA?

Oryx and Crake?

Young Adult @Icenii

Station eleven

What is YA? Young Adult.

@Stripyhoglets I'm reading that right now, I'm halfway through and had to put it down after the chapter where they find the family in their beds, with the little boy's bedroom and the solar system poster on the wall. Just so sad.

I second Station Eleven
Also The Road by Cormac McCarthy

End of the world running club

Mad Adam trilogy from Margaret Atwood.

End of the World Running Club is fab; the sequel much poorer, I felt.

All the Little Children is decent and written from a mother's perspective, which both interested and annoyed me.

The Stand is legendary!

Only Ever Yours is great but definitely on the YA side.

Oh, I know - The Wall. The Wall is one of the best I've read in AGES. It's really, really good.

After it happened by Devon C Ford - I listened to the audible version and it had me hooked. There a quite a few in the series.

Ready player two is out now. Ready player e was great!

A bit old but maybe Brave New World? Don’t know if this counts but there is a novel called Prism that I really enjoyed - the premise is that all medical interventions are illegal in the world this girl finds herself in. I don’t know if it might be young adult though, read it years ago!

Vox

It’s about a society where the amount of words a woman is allowed to say each day is limited to a specific low amount. Sounds preposterous but the idea really works.

I also liked The Wall. And Station Eleven.

Zone One by Colson Whitehead
The End Specialist by Drew Magary (although it gets ropey at the end)

The End of October I think was a bit overrated

The first half of The Stand is great, the second half is silly

Station Eleven
The Stand
Bird Box

The Flood, JG Ballard.

On the beach by Neville Shute. About as classic dystopian as you can get!

Actually just realised my suggestions are more post-apocalyptic than dystopian, same ballpark I guess!

World War Z the book is actually rather good. Completely different than the film.

On the Beach is great. I read it in my teens when we still had the Cold War. Chilling.

Not classically dystopian, but Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke is another good read in that general area.

A History of 2020.

Handmaid's Tale
Station Eleven
1984
The Road
In The Country of Last Things