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Can you suggest any incredible dystopian novels for me to read, pls??

217 replies

CantFindTheBeat · 09/01/2023 20:37

I'm desperate to get engrossed in a book again.

Very little seems to interest me right now.

I love dystopian novels.

Over the years, I've loved:

Handmaids Tale
Flawed
The Road
World War Z
Brave New World

Found these ok:

Vox
Station Eleven
The Chrysalids
1984
I am legend

And loads more I can't remember!

Have you read anything along these lines that you would recommend?

OP posts:
ItWasDobbinAtTheMareAndSpare · 09/01/2023 20:39

The Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey.

littleburn · 09/01/2023 20:39

The MaddAddam Triology by Margaret Atwood.

FreeButtonBee · 09/01/2023 20:39

Oryx and crake by Margaret Atwood is AMAZING

Tallulah28 · 09/01/2023 20:40

Klara and the Sun 😊

littleburn · 09/01/2023 20:40

The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood.

ItWasDobbinAtTheMareAndSpare · 09/01/2023 20:40

The Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey.

PerfectHarmony · 09/01/2023 20:41

Have you read Stephen Kings 'The Long Walk'?
I

Eixample · 09/01/2023 20:41

Typescript of the Second Origin
The Way I Live Now (young adult)

abracady · 09/01/2023 20:41

Moths is good fun.

PerfectHarmony · 09/01/2023 20:41

Have you read Stephen Kings 'The Long Walk'?
I

abracady · 09/01/2023 20:41

Moths is good fun.

shortsaint · 09/01/2023 20:41

The Every.

Just finished it. Brain was blown. It's the sequel to The Circle.

Yeahrightthen · 09/01/2023 20:42

Have you read any Aldous Huxley? Brave New World?

Ive not read many dystopian novels, handmaids tale obviously - but I also enjoyed Day of the Triffids - quite dated but enjoyable. Have you read any other Margaret Atwood? The Blind Assassin is another I really enjoyed, also Alias Grace which is based on a true story (not dystopian but creepy!)

ElizabethinherGermanGarden · 09/01/2023 20:42

The Plague Times trilogy by Louise Welch. The first one is A Lovely Way to Burn and is about a pandemic, then the other books go into a post-apocalyptic reorganisation of society.

Eixample · 09/01/2023 20:42

Typescript of the Second Origin
The Way I Live Now (young adult)

abracady · 09/01/2023 20:42

Moths is good fun.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/58489367-moths

Witchbitch20 · 09/01/2023 20:42

The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird

Mymblesdaughter · 09/01/2023 20:42

Have you read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. There are also two follow on books. I enjoyed them but I love Margaret Atwood.

littleburn · 09/01/2023 20:42

The MaddAddam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood.

Yeahrightthen · 09/01/2023 20:43

Have you read any Aldous Huxley? Brave New World?

Ive not read many dystopian novels, handmaids tale obviously - but I also enjoyed Day of the Triffids - quite dated but enjoyable. Have you read any other Margaret Atwood? The Blind Assassin is another I really enjoyed, also Alias Grace which is based on a true story (not dystopian but creepy!)

MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake · 09/01/2023 20:43

I was listening to the Backlisted podcast today (highly recommend) and one of the guys who hosts it was raving about a post-apocalyptic novel written in the 1950s called The Death of Grass.

shortsaint · 09/01/2023 20:43

The Every

abracady · 09/01/2023 20:43

www.goodreads.com/book/show/58489367-moths

Witchbitch20 · 09/01/2023 20:43

The End of Men - Christina Sweeney-Baird

ecuse · 09/01/2023 20:43

I absolutely loved The Power by Naomi Alderman

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