Anyone recommend a good dystopian novel?

[anunlikelyseahorse]

I need a new book, and you lot are ace at recommending a good book, so please can I request your aceness again and ask for a good dystopian read.
I've done Orwell, Huxley, Wyndham, Atwood, Herbert, and a few others. I couldn't get on with Atwood, or The power by Naomi Alderman. James Herbert was a bit hit and miss, some of his books were great, others I gave up reading. I've read Suzanne Collins and think her book are really good.
My three criteria for a good read; gets straight into the story; written in third person (can't stand first person novels) reasonably believable story line. I don't have an issue with stereotype characters. TIA

Just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I was initially put out by the writing style but then realised it was ingenius and reflected the theme and atmosphere of the novel.

If you like the hunger games series I would deff look at the unwind series by Neal schusterman. It's teen fiction but I really enjoyed it. Same with the maze runner. The movie of it is dreadful though so don't bother there..

Slated is also very good as as is the delirium series but I think that's written i first person

Never let me go.

Thank you, I'll look into all those titles. Teen books sound great I can pass them on to my teens! I don't have the brain power for anything highbrow anymore (maybe when I retire and dc are fully independent I might have more cranial capacity 😂).

seconded

I assume you’ve read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, I bought it for my teen ds but I proof read books before I give it to him (ASD) and I really enjoyed it! Other good dystopian novels I’ve read:
Woman on the Edge of Time - Marge Piercy
The Memory of Animals - Claire Fuller
Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng

Zone one - colson whitehead
the passage

I’ve just enjoyed reading ‘An Ocean of Minutes’ which has time travel into a dystopian type future. It’s by Thea Lim.

Station Eleven

The Silo series by Hugh Howey

Wanderers
And then the sequel - Wayward.

Stumbled across these last year and loved both.

Always love The Passage and the other books in the trilogy too (Justin Cronin)

The Pesthouse - Jim Crace
The Gone-Away World - Nick Harkaway
The Death of Grass - John Christopher
On the Beach - Nevil Shute

Wool, can't remember the author.
Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood.

I loved The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray (one of the QI elves, apparently)

The Wind Up Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi

Ooh yes! This was very good.

The host by Stephanie Meyers.

JG Ballard's Kingdom Come. Can't remember if it's in first person.
Anything by JG Ballard will do, apart from Empire of the Sun. His short story anthology is brilliant.

Or more mainstream, try Stephen King's The Stand.

I'm also a fan of Wyndham, Orwell and Huxley. I would second On the Beach and Station 11. Also maybe Girlfriend in a Coma, although just saying it's a dystopian novel may be a spoiler.

Another vote for Station Eleven and also for the Wool trilogy by Hugh Howey.

I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman, The school for good mothers by jessamine Chan, Klara and the sun by kazuo ishiguro

Another YA book series you might like is the Divergent series by Veronica Roth

Z is for Zachariah by Robert C. O'Brien I read it at school and loved it is was also made into a film

There's a book by Dorian Lynskey, "The Ministry of Truth", about Orwell's novel. It will give you lots of recommendations - it has details on novels which influenced, and were influenced by, Orwell's book.

Silo trilogy. Apple have just (loosely) done the first book as a TV series, but the whole trilogy is definitely worth a read.