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Dystopia novel recommendations please

27 replies

cheeseisthebest · 03/03/2023 22:22

For my 15 year old daughter.

Thanks

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Meredusoleil · 03/03/2023 22:24

School for good and evil?

The Shatter me series by Tahereh Mafi?

Hullothereitsme · 03/03/2023 22:24

Station 11

Lamelie · 03/03/2023 22:25

Girl with all the gifts
God of strange new things
John Wyndham
Margaret Atwood

escapingthecity · 03/03/2023 22:26

The Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey

cheeseisthebest · 03/03/2023 22:26

Thank you she's read school of good and evil but don't think she's read any of the others.

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Midwinterblues · 03/03/2023 22:28

‘We’ by Yevgeny Zamyatin - the inspiration for 1984 and absolutely brilliant (in a horrific kind of way).
‘Brave New World’ too of course.

BakingQueen14 · 03/03/2023 22:28

The Slated trilogy by Teri Terry. There's a prequel as well.

cheeseisthebest · 03/03/2023 22:32

Can't find God of Strange new things?

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babynoname22 · 03/03/2023 22:34

The power? Naomi Alderman

JoonT · 03/03/2023 22:38

Orwell’s 1984. If she’s a bright child, this is a must-read. It’s also a warning on where our woke madness is heading: control of language, control of books, control of thought, etc. Also, the re-writing of history, and the way people are being forced to accept things they know are untrue. Fascist, Communist, or woke-liberal, it doesn’t matter, it’s always the same thing - people trying to control others.

CluelessHamster · 03/03/2023 22:41

Warm bodies

cheeseisthebest · 03/03/2023 22:44

Thank you, she's read 1984, found it terrifying but brilliant!

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Coffeeandchoc · 03/03/2023 22:45

Chaos walking trilogy

ronswansonstache · 03/03/2023 22:46

I don't know whether PP meant this one, but The Book of Strange New Things by Michael Faber is great!

dudsville · 03/03/2023 22:49

There a good list on Google, starting with We, mentioned above. I'm rereading The Trial. There's just tonnes, but best to start with the classics.

JamSandle · 03/03/2023 22:51

The Handmaid's Tale
1984
Brave New World

MurderAtTheBeautyPageant · 03/03/2023 22:53

There was a big long thread on this recently. All the depressing dystopian novels a soul could yearn for!

www.mumsnet.com/talk/what_were_reading/4716453-can-you-suggest-any-incredible-dystopian-novels-for-me-to-read-pls?reply=122955565

MothralovesGojira · 03/03/2023 22:57

The Rot and Ruin series by Jonathan Maberry
The 5th Wave series
How We Live Now
World War Z
The Stand

lifeturnsonadime · 03/03/2023 22:58

The Stand by Stephen King.

In fact most of Stephen King.

Not critically acclaimed but an amazing, imo the best, story teller.

MothralovesGojira · 03/03/2023 23:04

Also
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Maze Runner series
The Passage by Justin Cronin

She could also try The Lovely Bones - not dystopian but a sublime read for a teen and excellently written.

Lamelie · 03/03/2023 23:12

MothralovesGojira · 03/03/2023 23:04

Also
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Maze Runner series
The Passage by Justin Cronin

She could also try The Lovely Bones - not dystopian but a sublime read for a teen and excellently written.

Lovely Bones and The Road are too bleak imho
Its not God, it’s
Book of Strange New Things

leafinthewind · 03/03/2023 23:14

Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sowers

snowlady4 · 03/03/2023 23:25

Only Ever Yours by Louise O'Neil is great. Its a bit like a more modern handmaids tale.

Bells3032 · 03/03/2023 23:43

The unwind series by neal Schusterman
Slated series by Terri Terry
Delirium series by Lauren Oliver

Might have already read both hunger games and the maze runner as both pretty famous

The first few books of the Breeders was also excellent but found later books not so good

cheeseisthebest · 04/03/2023 21:37

Thank you very much, no not lovely bones, so distressing!

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