Recommend to me - Dystopian edition

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It’s my favourite genre and I’m looking for recommendations.

I’ve read the classics like Handmaids Tale and Testaments, The Road, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Station Eleven, Vox, The Power, Ender’s Game, The Stand, World War Z, The Mist.

I’m currently halfway through Children of Men.

I need more! Please recommend your favourite dystopian novels.

Brave New World

Not a novel, but there's a book called "The Ministry of Truth" by Dorian Lynskey. It's about Orwell's 1984, but it traces books which influenced 1984, and books which it went on to influence.

The Flame Alphabet. It’s one of the most unnerving dystopian books ever.

Nod

The wool trilogy

Vox. And some Joe Abercrombie.

Oryx and Crake trilogy by Margaret Atwood are also good, The Chrysalids is a classic that I have always loved, A boy and his dog at the end of the world

The Passage- Justin Cronin. Vampires, post and pre apocalyptic. Very good, although it wobbles in the middle. First of a trilogy but I haven't read the other two yet.

A really good list! I would add How High We Go in the Dark and Age of Miracles.

Day of the triffids, war of the worlds, sequel to the power = the future

I asked the same question a while ago so you may get a few inspired recommendations here :)

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/what_were_reading/5239746-post-apocalyptic-books-recommendations

Murakami's 1Q84 and Norwegian Wood are considered to have dystopian themes.

On the Beach by Nevil Shute.
It really stayed with me, but I did have a nightmare about it!

https://www.penguin.co.uk/series/PENGSCIFI/penguin-science-fiction

the books in this series are all good and they look very nice on the shelf too!!

I who have never known men

I am re-reading “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin. I will say no more on it, if you haven’t read it, this is one for you.

Have you read Octavia Butler?

I may be a 40 something woman, but I still love The Hunger Games series.

You must read this!

The Coldness of Objects by Panayotis Cacoyannis. Quite unnerving.

@Pianoaholic I read On The Beach as a teenager, and I've just borrowed it from my mum who still has it, 40+ years later!

Frank Tayell Zombie books. Incredible!

I have We on my kindle to read next actually!

I haven’t read any Octavia Butler actually.

Songlight by Moria Buffini recently won some YA awards. is quite good.

a lot of dystopian does seem more YA in focus these days.

Woman On The Edge Of Time (Marge Piercey) is a combination utopia / dystopia story which highlights the horrors certain groups face in everyday real life against different potential futures.

Give it a go! I have read and re-read everything she wrote.

Sadly passed away too early!

Thank so much everyone! Lots to addd to my Want To Read shelf.

@FancyBiscuitsLevel I don’t mind YA, I read quite a few last year.