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.

Really loved The Age of Miracles and I keep checking whether the author has written any others but I don't think she has.

Kurt Vonnegut has written some really good dystopian fiction

strugatsky brothers books

kobo abe

a lot of the dystopian books written in the sixties were very prescient!!

There is a sequel to Brave new world which is a reflection on the book and the changes in the years since the first book was written

Seveneves
Last One at the Party
Tbe End of Men
Moths
The Girl with all the Gifts
Wool, plus the others in the Silo trilogy
Hunger Games
Saltcrop
What We Can Know
Good Morning, Midnight
Juice
The Ministry for the Future
The Choice
This Fragile Earth

Some of these are not strictly dystopian as are more positive about the future, but are all good reads with interesting ideas.

Fantastic, thanks. So many I haven’t heard of!

The Passage trilogy by Justin Cronin is phenomenal - I read all three last year and wish I could go back and read them for the first time again.

Black No More
George S. Schuyler

I want to highlight this from the penguin series as it’s such an interesting read and written by a fascinating man

not dystopian as such but Four sides triangle is an interesting read given when it was written and what has come since!

The Wall
The ship by Antonia Honeywell
Thirsty animals
Maddaddam trilogy

I've just finished The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch and really enjoyed it.

Vox
The Hunger Games!

Vox (Women are given daily word quotas to silence them)

The Farm (Breeding farms)

The Girl With All The Gifts (Zombie/infection with a huge twist)

The Power (Women become the more dangerous sex)

All very good

Mockingbird by Walter tevis

The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray. Thriller set in a world 40-50 years after the earth has stopped turning.

Fantasticland - Mike bockoven

This! The whole trilogy is absolutely brilliant.

Another I absolutely loved which rarely comes up…. Swan Song by Robert McCammon.

Susan Beth Pfeffer in order:
Life as we knew it
The Dead and the Gone
This World we live in
The Shade of the Moon

Took me ages to go back through my Libby timeline but having found them again I may read again (I read them on Dec 21 and they have stuck with me)

Facial Justice by L P Hartley

Widowland by CJ Carey, and its follow up, Queen High. I’m not usually a reader of Dystopian fiction, but Widowland had me gripped.

If you like YA fiction, the Unwind series by Neal Shusterman.

Without Warning by John Birmingham. Post-apocalyptic rather than dystopian. 1st in a trilogy, it's 'male' style - very heavy on military, fighting and action, less so on emotions. Lots of different characters/story strands. Fascinating idea behind the dystopia.

The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist. Opposite style - focus on one woman. Swedish version of Never Let Me Go but not clones, 50+year olds deemed economically disposable.

The Things We Leave Behind by Clare Furniss. This one's YA, bit too realistic considering Reform's poll ratings.

Thank you! Great recommendations on that thread 😁

I love Domain by James Herbert. It's part of a trilogy and probably technically horror but you don't need to read any others. It starts off with a nuclear weapons strike on London and all these fascinating pockets of people in various shelters and stories about their survival and reactions to the disaster. And then on top of this there starts to be these shadowy attacks by giant rats who have come out of the sewers. The whole book was just gripping- I'd highly recommend it!

I really loved “Julia”, which is 1984 retold by Julia. It puts a whole new spin on the events of the book, fleshes out the world and also is refreshingly feminist given that 1984 treats Julia appallingly and gives her basically no personality other than super hot and horny.

Wool trilogy, Madaddam trilogy, as recommended by others.

Anything by John Wyndham. Day of the Triffids is my all time favourite book.

Station 11 about a flu epidemic haunted me for weeks.

Oryx and crake
vox
i who have never known men

The Blindness by José Saramago