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Recommendations please - dystopian fiction

65 replies

MoorGirl · 11/04/2022 21:19

Any ideas?
I have previously really enjoyed:

Battle Royale
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake trilogy
Children of Time
The Hunger Games series

Thanks!

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sunrise16 · 13/04/2022 03:22

The death of grass....

countdowntonap · 13/04/2022 06:54

Margaret Atwood - ‘The Heart Goes Last’
David Eggers- ‘The Circle’ and ‘The Every’

countdowntonap · 13/04/2022 06:55

Douglas Coupland - ‘Generation A’

countdowntonap · 13/04/2022 06:57

Claire North - ‘84K’

sirensscreech · 13/04/2022 07:03

Host by Stephanie Meyer. Dystopian : Sci/fi

Partyatnumber10 · 13/04/2022 07:22

Scythe trilogy by Neal Schusterman
Vox by Christina Dalcher.

ThirstyMeeples · 13/04/2022 07:37

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E Butler

ChrisPriss · 13/04/2022 07:40

Metronome by Tom Watson

ElephantandGrasshopper · 13/04/2022 07:44

anything by Octavia butler

Bells3032 · 13/04/2022 07:48

The unwind series is phenomenal and not well known enough.
The slated series
The maze runner
Delirium series (this one's a bit more girly)

Maslina3 · 13/04/2022 07:48

1984, George Orwell
Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gillman.

1984, the ultimate dystopian book.
Herland is more utopian/dystopian

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 13/04/2022 07:50

A Lovely Way to Burn - Louise Welsh (and the rest of that series)

MoorGirl · 13/04/2022 08:22

I just thought of another I enjoyed although not quite the same vein - Murakami's 1Q84 trilogy.
Thanks again everyone for your suggestions.

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PartridgeCoop · 13/04/2022 10:41

American War by Omar el Akkad - amazing book similar style to oryx and crake books

Riverlee · 14/04/2022 19:43

Margaret’s Ark - Daniel Keohane
The Wall - John Lanchaster

BarryKentPoet · 19/04/2022 15:59

A really bizarre one I read recently was Before and After by Andrew Shanahan about a morbidly obese man who is stuck in his flat when the world ends.

KimikosNightmare · 11/05/2022 21:55

Justin Cronin's Passage Trilogy - The Passage, The Twelve and The City of Mirrors

Speculative rather than dystopian , (although it becomes dystopian in its own universe) Chris Beckett's wonderful Eden trilogy - Dark Eden, Mother of Eden and Daughter of Eden.

SammyScrounge · 11/05/2022 21:57

1984

Etinoxaurus · 11/05/2022 21:59

The Girl with all the Gifts
Not so much distopian but speculative near future- God of Strange New Things.

FieryPitOfMordor · 11/05/2022 22:01

Vox - Christina Dalcher
The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird

KimikosNightmare · 11/05/2022 22:06

Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's The Strain Trilogy - The Strain, The Fall and The Night Eternal.

Adam Baker - Outpost,Juggernaut, Terminus and Impact.

Snowraingain · 12/05/2022 15:48

World War z by Max Brooks is outstanding.

Snowraingain · 12/05/2022 15:54

Sorry posted too soon - it’s nothing really at all like the film.

MsAmerica · 13/05/2022 03:32

I've become interested in this:

He Envisioned a Nightmarish, Dystopian Russia. Now He Fears Living in One.
By Alexandra Alter

Sorokin is widely regarded as one of Russia’s most inventive writers, an iconoclast who has chronicled the country’s slide toward authoritarianism, with subversive fables that satirize bleak chapters of Soviet history, and futuristic tales that capture the creeping repression of 21st-century Russia. But despite his reputation as both a gifted postmodern stylist and an unrepentant troublemaker, he remains relatively unknown in the West. Until recently, just a handful of his works had been published in English, in part because his writing can be so challenging to translate, and so hard to stomach. Now, four decades into his scandal-scorched career, publishers are preparing to release eight new English-language translations of his books.

www.yahoo.com/news/envisioned-nightmarish-dystopian-russia-now-141504513.html

mizu · 29/05/2022 15:26

Yes to the Wool trilogy - fabulous. My DD17 has recently read too and really enjoyed.

American War was great too - and The Wall.

If you haven't read The Handmaid's Tale, then read!

Also, the Last by Hanna Jameson

And i am reading Kings of a Dead World but Jamie Mollart at the moment.