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

[CantFindTheBeat]

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?

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep…

Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing.

The Red Rising series is brilliantly written and very enjoyable.

Never Let Me Go.

I absolutely loved The Power by Naomi Alderman

Chrysalids - John Wyndham. So ahead of his time, some are rather haunting.

Sorry OP! Kept getting a message saying I'd failed to post.

The Death of Grass is amazing.
I read it at school in the early 80s. The three classes in the year read Death of Grass, Brave New World or 1984 as our dystopian novel for UIV. It has stayed with me all these years.

I'm watching this thread keenly as I like this genre. I don't think anyones said yet the Eve of Man Trilogy (only 2 are out so far) by Tom and Giovanna fletcher (YA but I really enjoyed them as a 40 something)

Also Last One at the Party by Bethany Clift.

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Wool Trillogy
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Z For Zachariah Robert C. O'Brien

Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. So brilliant!

@stringbean I read the mandibles by Lionel Shriver a few yrs ago, was just thinking how it would be more "scary" reading it for the first time now given the economic and social climate.
It's a fantastic book

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The choice by Clare Wade

I'm not a massive fan of dystopian novels but

The Grils with all the gifts was amazing

I just finished
The Last one at the party by Bethany Clift

And can't stop thinking about it.

Which one - John Lanchester or Marlen Haushofer?
Marlen Haushofer's The Wall is amazing, John Lanchester's is only average (both very different stories).

@Burgerqueenbee

John Lanchester.

I got a strong sense of 'I know where this is going' right from the start and lost interest.

@CantFindTheBeat yes I agree with that, I took it along as a holiday read so I guess it ticked the good enough for waiting in an airport box!
Wholeheartedly recommend the Marlen Haushofer one, it is also a film but I haven't watched it yet (DH enjoyed it though).

Pretty much anything by Phillip K Dick, but of particular note and easiest to read are

• The Penultimate Truth
• A Scanner Darkly
• Ubik

I read this at school. Can't remember much about it, but I enjoyed it.

Off Target by Eve Smith

“A Very Private Life” by Michael Frayn. It’s set in a future where most people don’t ever leave their houses and do literally everything via virtual communication. The main character has grown up in this environment and has an ingrained fear of the outside but also a curiosity. I read this years ago but found myself reminded of it a lot during the COVID pandemic.

Good recommendation. I really like Lionel Shriver's stuff. Very underrated.

I was going to recommend Brave New World, but re-reading your post, OP, I see that you mentioned it. How about another Huxley novel – Island. It is utopian rather than dystopian, in that he imagines a perfect future society rather than an imperfect one. Obviously everything falls apart in the end, however (message being no utopia lasts, I guess). Like all Huxley's work it's packed with ideas and is endlessly interesting.

I second this. It’s really stayed with me and as you say it would be all the more terrifying now