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

I first read that back in the 7ps I think. Nevil Shute was a good writer. Not a dystopian novel, but I also loved "A Town Like Alice".

Damn no edit button on the iPad app! 70s not 7ps.

I read The Coldness Of Objects by Panayotis Cacoyannis after it was recommended somewhere on MN. It was the first dystopian novel I've read since Children Of Men many years ago, before it was a film. Felt similarly gut punched at the end.

I read that as a teenager . Often think of the storyline, but had forgotten which book it was. Thank you.

@ThunderclapCloud - you're welcome :-)

I enjoyed The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray.

OP I agree with@AndThenItWas and others On the Beach , Nevil Shute, is one of the most chilling books I have read, but good.

The Road is possibly the grimmest thing I've ever read and I really wish I hadn't.

The Girl With All The Gifts, A Boy And His Dog At The End Of The World, the Wool/Silo trilogy and the Gone series are all fairly recent good dytopian books.

It's not a novel but it's certainly dystopian- William Shirer's 'Rise and Fall of the Third Reich'.

I've read a lot of dystopian books lately and a few have really stuck in my heads:

The Waiting Rooms - Eve Smith
Station 11 as a number of other people have said (so good! and not actually that depressing)

And one that I read over a year ago that still gives me nightmares - I'm trying to pluck up the courage to read it again. But it was really upsetting:

Everything You Ever Wanted by Luiza Sauma.

Probably already been mentioned, but Emily St John Mandel's trilogy - Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel and Sea of Tranquility - is absolutely sublime.

I definitely read less dystopian fiction since we've been living in dystopian fact.

I just read a review of Sandra Newman's novel "Julia" - a retelling of Orwell's 1984 from Julia's perspective. It sounds excellent.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/sandra-newman-george-orwell-julia-1984/?WT.mcid=eeDM212236&WT.tsrc=email&etype=EdiUSDDNewB&utmsource=email&utmmmedium=EdiUSDDNewB20231001&utmm_campaign=DM212236

I'm reading You could be so pretty and really enjoying it. Bit like the Handmaid's tale.

Station Eleven, A Canticle for Liebowitz, The Man in the High Castle, High Rise, Never Let Me Go, Cat's Cradle.

I would only read On The Beach if you are okay with reading about the euthanasia of babies and children.

I enjoyed 'The Drift' by CJ Tudor. Clever braiding of narratives and timelines, snowy setting, tense atmosphere.

Vox, Q and Femlandia by Christine Dalcher.

Also, only ever yours by Louise o'neil.

They, by Kay Dick- don't think anyone's mentioned that yet

Definitely station eleven

Fantastic land. Mike Bockoven

Femlandia by Christina Dalcher is a good but easy read

Another vote for the Meg Rosoff YA novel, 'How I Live Now'... works for teens and adults. Also a good film adaptation with a very young Tom Holland.

Also Alex Scarrow's Last Light for an easy read!

I read Emma Ellis’s the eyes forward trilogy - book 1 is called donate. A months back and it is dystopian, almost handsmaids tale/black mirror vibes and I really haven’t heard many people discuss it but I found them an interesting read. If you have a kindle they’re all on kindle unlimited!

My Monticello.
Parable of the Sower.